Charles Waldheim

Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program, Director of the Office for Urbanization, John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture

Contact Office Location

40 Kirkland 2C

CVDownload
Research Areas
  • Ecology
  • History & Theory
  • Strategy & Management
  • Urbanism

Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture, Director of the Office for Urbanization, and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is an American-Canadian architect and urbanist. Waldheim’s research examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. He is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books on these subjects, and his writing has been published and translated internationally. Waldheim is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Cullinan Chair at Rice University; and the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Courses

ADV-9506
Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Anita Berrizbeitia, Diane Davis, Gareth Doherty, K. Michael Hays, Ali Malkawi, Mohsen Mostafavi, Richard Peiser, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Peter Rowe, Carole Voulgaris, Charles Waldheim
Spring 2026
Thesis Research
16 Units
ADV-9506
Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Diane Davis, Gareth Doherty, Ann Forsyth, Gary R. Hilderbrand, John May, Rahul Mehrotra, Mohsen Mostafavi, Erika Naginski, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Carole Voulgaris, Charles Waldheim
Fall 2024
Thesis Research
16 Units
ADV-9341
Fall 2024
Project-based Seminar
4 Units
DES-3241
Theories of Landscape as Urbanism
Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim
Fall 2024
Lecture
4 Units

Projects