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Mercedes Peralta is an architect and researcher currently working with Professor Charles Waldheim as a Research Associate atthe Harvard Graduate School of Design's Office for Urbanization. She holds a Master of Architecture and a Certificate in Media and Modernity from Princeton University (2017), in addition to her professional diploma in architecture from University of Buenos Aires(2012). Before Harvard, Mercedes worked in New York (2017-18). She was part of the Princeton-Columbia research team for Beatriz Colomina's and Mark Wigley's Istanbul Biennial ""Are We Human?"" (2016) and a presenter for the 2017 ECAADE conference at Sapienza Università di Roma. Between 2010 and 2015, she worked in Buenos Aires in different design initiatives. Mercedes was a designer for Claudio Vekstein's Monumento al Grito de Alcorta, represented in the last Argentinian pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale. Her teaching experience includes Harvard, Princeton, and University of Buenos Aires. Her writing appears in Summa+. Her current research focuses on the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Her latest projects include design research and editorial work on the re-use of obsolete infrastructure, mobility design, branding proposals for new cities, identity systems, and the design-curatorship of Future of the American City platform initiative. Jeannette Sordi is an architect and urban planner based in New York City. Until 2018 she was Associate Professor of Landscape and Urbanism at Adolfo Ibañez University in Santiago de Chile. Her PhD (UNIGE, 2013) focused on the genealogy of landscape urbanismand was published as ""Beyond Urbanism"" (List, 2014; Sacabana, 2017, Spanish edition). She is part of the Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas initiative since its beginnings in 2015 and co-organized conferences in Medellín, Santiago, Brasilia, Mexico, and Buenos Aires. Her main publications include the books ""Andrea Branzi. From Radical Design to Post-Environmentalism"" (ARQ, 2015, with Felipe Vera), ""The Camp and the City. Territories of Extraction"" (List, 2017, with Felipe Vera and Luis Valenzuela), and ""Part-time Cities"" (ARQ, 2018). She currently teaches at NYIT and is a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank on projects in Uruguay and Argentina. Charles Waldheim is a North American architect, urbanist, and educator. His research and practice examine the relations betweenlandscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. He coined the term ""landscape urbanism"" to describe the emergent discourse andpractices of landscape in relation to design culture and contemporary urbanization. On these topics, Waldheim is author of ""Landscapeas Urbanism: A General Theory"" and editor of ""The Landscape Urbanism Reader."" Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor of LandscapeArchitecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he directs the School's Office for Urbanization.
The book may be based on academic conferences that are focused on landscape urbanism -- the sometimes contentious theory that challenges New Urbanism and elevates landscape and ecology over buildings -- but the book should appeal to a wide range of architects and landscape architects due to the selection of the two-dozen projects and their presentation taking up most of its pages. Like the conferences, the projects range over much of Latin America. Much-published projects like Plan: B's and JPRCR's Orquideorama in Colombia are found alongside lesser known projects like Metro's Ladeira da Barroquinha in Brazil. Not all of the projects are built, but on the whole they show a strong embrace of landscape urbanism principles in Latin American contexts. As expressed by Charles Waldheim in his introduction, this embrace has occurred, in part, from Latin American architects carrying the theory with them after being subjected to it at the GSD. Whatever the case, the projects in NESS.docs 2 are an strong argument for landscape urbanism's continued relevance. --John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture Over the past quarter century landscape has been claimed as model and medium for the contemporary city. During this time a range of alternative architectural and urban practices have emerged across Latin America. Many of these practices explore the ecological and territorial implications for the urban project. --Charles Waldheim
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