Terragrams
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTerragrams is a podcast series providing a wide portal into the world of landscape architecture by the professionals who shape it. Running from 2006 to 2012, the podcast dispatched over 30 interviews. It is now being re-edited and re-broadcast.
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Dispatch 28: Stefan Rotzler
June 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 35.5 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2009. Stefan Rotzler studied History of Art at the Zurich University before becoming a gardener. Following this hands-on experience, Rotzler opted to study landscape architecture at the ITR Technical School in Rapperswil, Switzerland where he graduated in one of the first classes of the newly-created professional program. After graduation, he worked with the town planning office of Zurich for a few years and then opened his own office. In 1989 ...
Dispatch 27: Claude Cormier
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in June 2009. Claude Cormier grew up on a farm and went on to study in agronomy and plant sciences at the University of Guelph. However, in search for a different perspective on nature, he entered the University of Toronto to study landscape architecture. After practicing for some time in Toronto and Montreal, he returned to school in the early 90’s to obtain a Master's in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1995, he ...
Dispatch 26: Marc Treib
April 11, 2022 00:00 - 57 minutes - 24.7 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in April 2009. Marc Treib is a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a landscape and architectural historian and critic and has published extensively. His books include: A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto (1980), Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review (1993), Regional Garden Design in the United States (Co-Editor, 1995), Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese (...
Dispatch 24: Maria Goula
March 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in October 2008. Maria Goula is a landscape architect and has been either studying or practicing landscape architect in Barcelona since she arrived from Greece in 1992, during the eve of the Olympic Games. She received both her Master of Landscape Architecture as well as her PhD degree from the Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura in Barcelona, in Catalunya’s Politecnic University. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Urbanism and Territo...
Dispatch 23: Gabriele Kiefer
March 21, 2022 00:00 - 55 minutes - 22.6 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in September 2008. Gabriele Kiefer founded Büro Kiefer, a landscape architecture studio founded in Berlin in 1989. Ms. Kiefer studied landscape planning at Berlin Technical University before working as a research assistant and, in 2002, being appointed as a Professor. Her studio has made work all over Germany and throughout much of Europe. She was a finalist in Barcelona's 5th Biennal of landscape architecture for a project on the outskirts of Switzerl...
Dispatch 22: Alexander Reford
March 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in December 2009. Alexander Reford is a historian and the director of the Reford Gardens of Metis in Quebec and the co-founder of the International Garden Festival of Metis, a festival that has featured designers such as Claude Cormier, NIP Landscape, Paula Meijerink (TG 10) and Chris Reed of Stoss Landscape Urbanism (TG 15). Alexander is on the board of directors for the Canadian Tourism Commission as well as the president of the Quebec Gardens' Asso...
Dispatch 21: Ken Smith
January 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in September 2009. Ken is the founder of the Ken Smith Workshop, based in Manhattan, New York, and Irvine, California. He graduated from Iowa State University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design and practiced with the Office of Peter Walker and later in collaboration with Martha Schwartz and David Meyer. Since 1992 he has been piloting his own studio while also teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, UVa...
Dispatch 20: René Bihan
December 01, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 67.9 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in August 2009. René Bihan is a registered landscape architect and the managing principal of the San Francisco office of the SWA Group. He grew up with a nursery in his backyard and has been at SWA for more than two decades. He is also a commissioner for the San Francisco Arts Commission and has designed and managed projects such as Beijing Finance Street, the City College of San Francisco Master Plan, the Hong Kong Cultural Harbour, and the Salt Lake...
Dispatch 19: John Beardsley
November 30, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 65.4 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in June 2009. John Beardsley is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches courses in Landscape Architectural history, theory and writing. Concurrently, he serves as Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. John has authored numerous books including the well-recognized EarthWorks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape. In addition to teac...
Dispatch 18: Michael van Gessel
November 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in September 2009. Michael van Gessel is a Dutch landscape architect with over 3 decades of experience that stretch back to the Agricultural College of Wageningen, where he earned a BA in Plant Disease, another BA in Landscape Architecture and then an MA in Landscape Architecture. His professional experience was gained with the Dutch office Bakkker en Bleeker (now B+B) where he practiced for more than 25 years and directed the studio from 1991-1997. S...
Dispatch 17: Liat Margolis
August 20, 2021 00:00 - 51 minutes - 58.8 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in January 2009. Liat Margolis is the co-author of Living Systems, Innovative Materials & Technologies for Landscape Architecture. Liat received an BFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was the Materials director for Material ConneXion, a materials research and consulting company in New York City. She has also recently worked at the landsc...
Dispatch 16: Gary Hilderbrand
May 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2008. Gary Hilderbrand, landscape architect, is one of the founding principals of Reed Hilderbrand and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Gary joins Terragrams to discuss his partnership with Douglas Reed, professional practice, multiple career paths, and his role in the 5th European Biennal of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona. He is also responsible for the monographs "Making a Landscape of Continuity: the Practice of Innocenti & W...
Dispatch 15: Chris Reed
March 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2008. Chris Reed is a registered landscape architect and the principal and founder of the Boston-based practice Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Stoss operates within and between the fields of urban design, landscape architecture and planning. It recognizes the urban context alongside the multiple scales and functions of ecological systems as basic tenets of its practice. The Architecture League of New York has named Chris Reed an 2008 Emerging Voice ...
Dispatch 14: Kristine Jensen
February 06, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in September 2008. Kristine Jensen is a Danish landscape architect with her Studio AKJT in Aarhus. At the Aarhus School of Architecture, she received her PhD and Masters of Architecture in Landscape Architecture. She is the recent winner of the 5th Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize for the Nicolai Kulturcenter project. In this Dispatch, Kristine discusses her Rosa Barba Prize winning project, the difference between a circle and an oval, modernism in...
Dispatch 13: Richard T.T. Forman
January 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2008. In this dispatch we are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and are joined by Richard Forman. Richard is Harvard University’s Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology. He teaches ecological courses in the Graduate School of Design as well as in the Harvard College. Here he talks to us about his latest book entitled Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City. Additionally, Richard discusses the hurdle...
Dispatch 12: Reuben Rainey
January 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2008. Reuben Rainey returns to Terragrams and discusses his latest work on Garden Story: Inspiring Spaces, Healing Places, a 10-part series of half-hour programs for Public Television on how gardens improve our lives and our communities. He also gives us more insight on his nearly 3 decades of teaching at UVA and on the career of Robert Royston. Reuben is the William Stone Weedon Professor Emeritus in the Department of Architecture and Landscap...
Dispatch 11: Robert Royston
January 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in March 2008. In this dispatch, Reuben Rainey talks to Robert Royston (1918-2008), a pioneer of modernism in landscape architecture. Royston was born in San Francisco and grew up on a farm before studying landscape architecture at the University of California in Berkeley and beginning practice in the office of Thomas Church. After volunteering to fight in World War II, he established a rich collaboration with Garret Eckbo and Edward Williams. During t...
Dispatch 10: Paula Meijerink
January 08, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 12 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in April 2007. In the 10th delivery of Terragrams, Paula Meijerink talks about juggling her work as a young practitioner and an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design while raising 2 daughters. With her studio, Wanted, Meijerink has built 2 gardens for the International Garden Festival of Metis in Quebec and is presently working on a roof deck for a 700 unit tower in Miami as well as a masterplan for a development near Shanghai. A...
Dispatch 9: Elizabeth Meyer
January 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 25.8 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in March 2007. Elizabeth Meyer is an Associate Professor and has twice acted as the Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. Here, she discusses her latest book project entitled 'Groundwork', past and present landscape architectural theory, creativity, site interpretation, the ASLA Student Awards, women in the practice, and the MOMA Groundswell Exhibition. Some of her published writings include "Uncertain Parks. Disturbed Sit...
Dispatch 8: Niall Kirkwood
December 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 36.4 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in December 2006. Niall Kirkwood is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and the Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2003 to 2009. In this dispatch, Mr. Kirkwood recalls his introduction to the world of landscape architecture, describes the role of the super absorbent polymer in his Sponge City project in Rotterdam, discusses some of the research that he has yet to publish, and runs through t...
Dispatch 7: Thomas Campanella
December 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.9 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2006. Tom Campanella is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and China’s Nanjing University Graduate School of Architecture. He is co-editor of the book The Resilient City - How Modern Cites Recover from Disaster and author of Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm as well as...
Dispatch 6: Michael Vergason
December 04, 2020 00:00 - 50 minutes - 28.7 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in May 2006. Michael Vergason talks about his practice, the process of drawing, the ASLA, and his experience as a principal at EDAW. Michael is principal of Michael Vergason Landscape Architects in Alexandria, Virginia and the 2006 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professorship in Architecture at the University of Virginia. This show employs visual chapters that update the show art to provide illustrations relevant to the ongoing onversation. If y...
Dispatch 5: James Corner
November 27, 2020 00:00 - 49 minutes - 28.5 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in March 2006. James Corner, landscape architect and urban designer, is the founder and director of Field Operations in New York City and a previous chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at PennDesign. He is also the author of Taking Measures across the American Landscape with photographer Alex McLean and the editor of Recovering Landscape - Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Here, Corner discusses his evolution as a landscape ...
Dispatch 4: Jane Amidon
November 20, 2020 00:00 - 41 minutes - 11.1 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in March 2006. Jane Amidon is an Assistant Professor and Section Head of the Landscape Architecture Section of the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University as well as the principal of Amidon Design Communication in Columbus, Ohio. She is also the editor for the first four Source Books in Landscape Architecture as well as the author of Dan Kiley's monograph, The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect, and Radical Lan...
Dispatch 3: Elías Torres
November 06, 2020 00:00 - 50 minutes - 31 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in February 2006. Elias Torres is a Doctorate in Architecture, the Partner of Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos in Barcelona, and a professor of Architecture at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona. Here he discusses his role as an educator and a designer, the role of landscape in the city and a number of his constructed projects such as the Barcelona Forum. He is also the author of the recent book Zenithal Light and has contributed to many ...
Dispatch 2: Bet Figueras
October 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in February 2006. Bet Figueras was the principal of her own practice — Arquitecta Paisajista — in Barcelona, Spain as well as a Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She passed away, due to cancer, in 2010. In this episode she spoke about Barcelona, her role in public space-making in the region, her growth as a designer, and her collaboration for the Barcelona’s Botanical Gardens project. This show employs v...
Dispatch 1: Julie Bargmann
October 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBThis episode was originally broadcast in January 2006. Editor’s note: the audio quality for this episode is not great, even after re-editing the tracks. This is not an issue in future episodes! In the debut Terragram, Julie Bargmann, the founder of D.I.R.T. Studio, Charlottesvile, Virginia, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and previous Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture talks candidly about the evolution of her practice, he...