Gareth Doherty
Instructor in Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design where his research focuses on the urbanism of landscape in the Arabian / Persian Gulf. Gareth spent the 2007-08 academic year conducting fieldwork in the Gulf on a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard University. Gareth has worked with CHORA/Raoul Bunschoten in London since 2000 and has had teaching appointments at Aarhus School of Architecture, Aalborg University, the University of Sheffield, the University of Central England, Kingston University and Queensland University of Technology. At Harvard, Gareth has been a Teaching Fellow and a Head Teaching Fellow for which he received a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in 2007. Recent and forthcoming publications include a short paper in Projections: MIT Journal of Planning. "London/derry and Londonderry: Citizenship and Public Space in Northern Ireland;" a book chapter "Dubai's Lopsided Landscape," in Superlative City (ed.) Ahmed Kanna, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (forthcoming.); and "The Importance of the Informal in the City of the Future," with Moises Lino e Silva, in Vol. 16 of Kerb Magazine of Landscape Architecture (forthcoming). Gareth has lectured recently at the Bahrain National Museum, the University of Bahrain, the American University of Sharjah, and the Architecture Association's Landscape Urbanism program. Gareth received his B.Agr.Sc in Landscape Horticulture and M.Agr.Sc. in Landscape Studies from University College Dublin, and his MLA and Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania.