To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century

About Richard Weller

Richard Weller is professor and former chair of landscape architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania where he (together with Fritz Steiner) established the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. He is co-founder (with Tatum Hands) and former creative director of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture founding director (with Vladimir Sitta) of Australian design firm Room 4.1.3. and holds adjunct professorships at the University of Western Australia and the University of New South Wales. His work has been frequently awarded in international design competitions and exhibited internationally including at the Guggenheim Museum in New York the Venice and Rotterdam Biennales the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston the MAXXI Gallery in Rome the Canadian Design Museum in Toronto and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His publications include Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (University of Pennsylvania Press 2005) Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City (University of Western Australia Press 2009) Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities (UWAP 2013) Transects (ORO Editions 2014) Design with Nature Now (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 2019) Beautiful China: Reflections on Landscape Architecture in Contemporary China (ORO Editions 2020) The Landscape Project (AR+D Publishing 2022) and An Art of Instrumentality (ORO Editions 2023). The Atlas for the End of the World Wellers recent research work on biodiversity and cities has been published in National Geographic and Scientific American while his related research and design project to establish a World Park is currently being considered for implementation by UNESCO.