Richard Weller

Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and co-director of the McHarg Center at The University of Pennsylvania.
He has over 30 years of professional and academic experience and published 4 books and over 90 papers. Weller’s most recent research concerns global flashpoints between biodiversity and urban growth. This research is documented in his latest publication; a web-based platform titled ‘Atlas for the End of the World – Atlas for the Beginning of the Anthropocene’.
Weller sits on the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington, is a member of the International Federation of Landscape Architect’s (IFLA) Advisory Circle and is the Creative Director of the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture LA+. He has received numerous awards for his design practice and in 2017 was voted by the ‘Design Intelligence Survey’ as one of North America’s “most admired” teachers.