Future of the American City

Claire Martin, Executive Director, and Wendell T. Joseph, Design Studio Manager, of Envision Resilience join our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss their work to advance planning and design for climate change through student and community partnerships.

Pamela Conrad is a landscape architect and climate advocate with 20 years of experience improving the social and ecological impacts of the exterior built environment. She is Faculty Lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow. Conrad joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss her research and design firm Climate Positive Design.

Alexander Gorlin is the principal and founder of Alexander Gorlin Architects and fellow

of the American Institute of Architects. Victoria Newhouse is an architectural historian

and founder of the Architectural History Foundation. Gorlin and Newhouse join our host,

Charles Waldheim, to discuss “Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the

Future of Affordable Housing,” 2024.

Jerold S. Kayden is an urban planner and lawyer serving as the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His teaching and scholarship address issues of land use and environmental law, public and private development in cities, public space, urban disasters, and climate change. Kayden joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss his role as the founding director of the new Master in Real Estate Program at the GSD.

Gary Hilderbrand is the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand LLC, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. James Nozar is a real estate development executive who served as Chief Development Officer at Method Co. and founding CEO of Strategic Property Partners before his current appointment as President of Development at KETTLER. Hilderbrand and Nozar join our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss their collaboration on Water Street Tampa.