About

Thaisa Way FASLA, FAAR (BS UC Berkeley, M’ArchH UVa, PhD Cornell University) is the Director of Garden & Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, a Harvard University research institution in Washington DC and PI for a Mellon Humanities Initiative, “Democracy and Landscape: Race, Identity, and Difference.” I was a 2016 Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. I served as the founding Director of Urban@UW, an initiative of the University of Washington. My book, Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design (UVa Press, 2009/213) was awarded the J.B. Jackson Book Award.  Other books include From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: the Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag (UW Press 2015); a co-edited  volume with Ken Yocom, Ben Spencer, and Jeff Hou Now Urbanism: The Future City is Here (Routledge 2014), the edited collection River Cities/ City Rivers (Harvard Press 2018) and a collaborative project, GGN 1999-2018 (Timber Press, 2018). This spring an edited collection of essays on the history and significance of the Dumbarton Oaks garden and landscape designed by Beatrix Farrand, Garden as Art: Beatrix Farrand and Dumbarton Oaks, was published in honor of the Centennial of the designed place. I am currently co-editing with Eric Avila a volume of essays on Segregation and Resistance in America’s landscapes.