ARQ Docs Anita Berrizbeitia
(August 2024)
Anita Berrizbeitia, Catalina Picon (ed.)
Softcover
12 x 17 cm | 152 pp.
Spanish + English
ISBN: 978-956-6204-16-9
As an influential theorist of contemporary landscape, Anita Berrizbeitia advocates for a process-based approach. Whether ecological, social, or historical, this perspective has been crucial in expanding our understanding, teaching, and practice of landscape architecture. The two essays in this book reinforce this vision, emphasizing Berrizbeitia's methods and approaches, deeply rooted in the study of 19th and 20th-century public landscapes.
Anita Berrizbeitia is a landscape architect, author, and educator. Her academic work focuses on the theory and critique of 19th and 20th-century public landscapes, with an emphasis on material culture, design expression, political ecology, and the productive functions and roles of landscapes in urbanization and climate adaptation processes. Her essays have been widely published in anthologies and journals. In 2006, she received the Rome Prize from the Prince Charitable Trusts at the American Academy in Rome, and her book Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este 1956-1961 received the inaugural J.B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies in 2007. She has served on numerous competition juries in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Berrizbeitia is a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where she served as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 2015 to 2022.
Side A: “Re-Placing Process”
Side B: “Accelerating Time: Eliot’s Experiment at the Blue Hills”
Forewords: Catalina Picon, Alejandra Bosch
Softcover
12 x 17 cm | 152 pp.
Spanish + English
ISBN: 978-956-6204-16-9
As an influential theorist of contemporary landscape, Anita Berrizbeitia advocates for a process-based approach. Whether ecological, social, or historical, this perspective has been crucial in expanding our understanding, teaching, and practice of landscape architecture. The two essays in this book reinforce this vision, emphasizing Berrizbeitia's methods and approaches, deeply rooted in the study of 19th and 20th-century public landscapes.
Anita Berrizbeitia is a landscape architect, author, and educator. Her academic work focuses on the theory and critique of 19th and 20th-century public landscapes, with an emphasis on material culture, design expression, political ecology, and the productive functions and roles of landscapes in urbanization and climate adaptation processes. Her essays have been widely published in anthologies and journals. In 2006, she received the Rome Prize from the Prince Charitable Trusts at the American Academy in Rome, and her book Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este 1956-1961 received the inaugural J.B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies in 2007. She has served on numerous competition juries in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Berrizbeitia is a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where she served as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 2015 to 2022.
Side A: “Re-Placing Process”
Side B: “Accelerating Time: Eliot’s Experiment at the Blue Hills”
Forewords: Catalina Picon, Alejandra Bosch
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