FRIENDS OF FAIRSTED LECTURE SERIES 2020-2021

Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm in New York City practicing landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art. The studio is devoted to exploring the “aesthetics of being” and creating enduring places where people belong. The firm was recently named a 2021 Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York. In parallel with practice, Sara serves as Assistant Professor in Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is writing a forthcoming book on Frederick Law Olmsted’s travels through the South and the implications for his practice of landscape architecture. Sara was named the 2014 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation, a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and in 2018, was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list. Most recently, she was named a 2020 United States Artists Fellow. Sara holds a master’s of landscape architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a master’s of city planning from MIT, and a BA in sociology and statistics from Boston University.

Thaisa Way, FASLA, is the Program Director for Garden & Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC. As an urban landscape historian, she seeks to challenge the canon of landscape architecture to engage with the inscriptions of race, gender, and class on the profession, practice, and pedagogy of the field.

Signature image: Infinity (3 of 3) by Sara Zewde. Headshot of Zewde: Carolyn Wheeler.

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We thank our co-sponsors for the 2020-2021 Lecture Series:
Friends of the Muddy River
High Street Hill Association
National Association for Olmsted Parks
Olmsted Design LLC
Reed Hilderbrand
Pat Suhrcke