Stuart Weitzman School of Design
102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Michael Grant
mrgrant@design.upenn.edu
215.898.2539
As faculty and students at the Weitzman School gear up to resume classes online, the Department of Landscape Architecture has published a reading list to introduce students to the profession, its history and prime movers, and the issues that animate it today. Along with numerous members of the Weitzman faculty (indicated by boldface type), the list includes canonical writings by leading practitioners and educators in architecture and planning as well as landscape architecture, from Rem Koolhaas to Anne Whiston Spirn. Among the 48 books and articles included are the collected poems of Wallace Stevens and an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates about the history of segregation and discrimination against African-Americans in the United States.
“It's interesting to see what the landscape faculty at Penn think are the most important readings for incoming students,” says Richard Weller, professor and chair of the Department, Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, and co-executive director of The McHarg Center. “Oh, and just in case you are wondering, as a way of introducing themselves to the incoming students, we did ask faculty to include some of their own writings! But even if you were to take that aspect out of the equation, it’s fair to say that a lot of the thought leadership in the field has come from, and continues to come from, Penn.”
Department Journals
LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. Edited by Dr Tatum Hands. https://laplusjournal.com
LA+ WILD
LA+ PLEASURE
LA+ TYRANNY
LA+ IDENTITY
LA+ RISK
LA+ SIMULATION1
LA+ IMAGINATION
LA+ TIME
LA+ DESIGN
LA+ ICONOCLAST
LA+ VITALITY
LA+ COMMUNITY
Scenario Journal: Edited by Nicholas Pevzner and Stephanie Carlisle. https://scenariojournal.com
Scenario 7 POWER
Scenario 6 MIGRATION
Scenario 5 EXTRACTION
Scenario 4 URBAN FOREST
Scenario 3 INFRASTRUCTURE
Scenario 2 PERFORMANCE
Scenario 1 LANDSCAPE URBANISM
Writing Skills
Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Several Short Sentences About Writing” in Ecotone, Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp. 126-133.