Richard Weller

Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Co-executive Director of the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Penn and creative director of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. His design work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998), the Venice Biennale (2004, 2020), the MAXXI Gallery in Rome (2016), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (2017), the Canadian Design Museum in Toronto (2018), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2020). In 2017 and 2018 Richard was voted by the Design Intelligence Survey as one of North America’s “most admired” teachers of design.