MCHARG CENTER LAUNCHES INTO RISING SEAS
BY ZACH MORTICE
Homes along old Highway A1A in Summer Haven, Florida. Photo courtesy St. Johns Public Works.
The McHarg Center?a new research initiative that will study the intersection of urbanism and ecology?is dedicated to studying how ?urban growth and all of its related infrastructure can relate better and be better tuned to ecosystems,? says Richard Weller, ASLA, chair of the landscape architecture department at the University of Pennsylvania. The center is awaiting its formal launch next year with an exhibition, book, and conference timed to the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg?s seminal book Design with Nature. In the meantime, the center, housed within PennDesign, has invited Jeff Goodell, the author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Little, Brown, and Company, 2017), to visit for an inaugural lecture on March 29, at 6:00 p.m. in the lower gallery of Meyerson Hall. In the spirit of McHarg?s research, Weller envisions the McHarg Center as an intensely multidisciplinary place. ?When he completely overhauled the curriculum at Penn, he stacked the building with scientists,? Weller says. Likewise, Penn?s McHarg Center will invite scientists, designers, engineers, and public policy experts into an ?interdisciplinary platform for bringing those different research cultures together,? he says.
Weller (along with his McHarg Center co-director and PennDesign dean Frederick Steiner, FASLA) will help organize an exhibiti...
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