14: Richard Weller | Tensile Strength

Richard Weller is an Australian landscape architect and academic. He is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also holds the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, is on the Board of Directors of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington D.C. Weller was formerly a Winthrop Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia, and director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre.

We discuss:

-Richard's time in Berlin
-The differences and similarities between Australian and U.S culture
-Mental health in relationship to place
-The inherent existential tensions of modernity
-Humans as keystone species
-Rewilding and more...

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