Stabilizing Living Networks. Structuralism in Landscape Architecture

  • Weilacher, Udo (PI)
  • Beardsley, John (CoI)
  • Hunt, John Dixon (CoI)
  • Tchikine, Anatole (CoI)

Project: Research

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In 2017 Professor Dr. Udo Weilacher was awarded the Mellon Fellowship in Urban Landscape Studies (Senior Practitioner Resident) by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Centre - associated with Harvard University - in Washington D.C. for his outstanding research and publishing activities in landscape architecture. The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is one of the most renowned research institutions associated with Harvard University and was founded in Washington D.C. by Roberts Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss. The art collectors, philanthropist, and politicians gave their property to Harvard University in 1940. The research institute is dedicated to supporting scholarship in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian studies, as well as garden design and landscape architecture, especially through research fellowships, meetings, exhibitions, and publications. Dumbarton Oaks also runs a garden and a museum collection, open to the public, and hosts public lectures and concert series. The program in Garden and Landscape Studies was established in 1969 to support the study of gardens and the history of landscape architecture around the world from ancient times to the present. During his one-month research residency In Washington D.C. in Spring 2017, Weilacher had the chance to work at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library which contains more than 200.000 items, including the Rare Book Collection with more than 10.000 volumes, prints, drawings, photographs, and blueprints. His research activity was focussed on the history of structuralism in international architecture and landscape architecture. Besides that, Professor Weilacher delivered a lecture “Between Landscape Architecture & Land Art” in co-operation with Professor Dr. John Beardsley, the Program Director for Garden and Landscape Studies. Beardsley invited Udo Weilacher to DumbartonOaks and is the author of the trend-setting book “Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape” that inspired Weilacher already as a student, delivering a good starting point for his research on the interface between Land Art and landscape architecture.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date19/03/1716/04/17