Double book launch: Landscape Fieldwork & Landscape Is...!

Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and social inequality. Its current reliance on digital and technological solutions, however, has increasingly caused landscape architects to lose sight of the ways in which humans actually use spaces. And while landscapes are designed all over the world, the discipline remains inordinately centred on the Global North.

Landscape Fieldwork, by Gareth Doherty, alters that long-standing paradigm through real-life examples that provide tools for practitioners to engage more deeply with multidimensional, diverse landscapes and the communities that create, live in, and use them.

Landscape Is...!, edited by Gareth Doherty & Charles Waldheim, examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape…?, which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the diverse and multiple meanings of landscape as a discipline, profession, and medium. This book is intended for academics, researchers, and students in landscape architecture and cognate disciplines. Chapters address various overlooked aspects of landscape that develop, disturb, and diversify received understandings of the field.

We are delighted to welcome Gareth Doherty and his guests Jala Makhzoumi and Ed Wall to the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of two publications. The evening will include drinks and a discussion, and both books will be available at a special launch price.

Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African and African American Studies. He is the author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State and Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design.

Jala Makhzoumi is an adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the American University of Beirut, and Acting President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, Middle East Region.

Ed Wall is Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich.

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