Charles Waldheim is the Director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Toronto. Until 2003 he was the Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Architecture, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, where his teaching and research focused on landscape and its relationship to contemporary urbanism.
He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded the Thesis Prize for his thesis design project and the Wil Melhorn Prize for graduate work in architectural theory. He was the Sanders Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and he has taught at the University of Toronto, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the Technical University in Vienna.
He is the author of Constructed Ground (University of Illinois Press, 2001), which documents the Millennium Garden Competition in Chicago, and the editor of a forthcoming book on Mies van der Rohe's and Ludwig Hilberseimer's Lafayette Park housing project in Detroit: CASE: Lafayette Park (Harvard/Prestel, 2003).

Charles Waldheim is a visiting lecturer at the NDS LA program 04/05 at the Institute for Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich. Christophe Girot conducted the interview.