Charles Waldheim

Charles Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he directs the School’s Office for Urbanization.

Waldheim’s research focuses on landscape architecture in relation to contemporary urbanism. He coined the term “landscape urbanism” to describe emerging landscape design practices in the context of North American urbanism. He is author of Constructed Ground, and volume editor of The Landscape Urbanism Reader and CASE: Lafayette Park Detroit. With Sonja Dümpelmann, he is co-editor of Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Digital Age, with Jason Young and Georgia Daskalakis, co-editor of Stalking Detroit, and with Katerina Ruedi Ray, co-editor of Chicago Architecture and Urbanism: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives.

Waldheim is currently writing the first book-length history of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, entitled Chicago O’Hare: A Natural and Cultural History. He is an honorary member of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, and in 2006 was recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome.