Emily Wettstein

Her current research runs in two distinct yet related projects, sharing a foundational grounding in marginalized sites and subjects. In Liminal Landscapes of Reckoning, she researches the potential of liminal sites to facilitate critical confrontation and dialogue, currently focusing on the New Jersey Meadowlands and Morenci, Arizona. The other, A Student as Site Pedagogy, seeks to approach students in the way that design, and particularly landscape architecture, approaches sites, with attention to situation, position, and identity, and generative of their own specific potentialities to be embraced in the co-production of a more inclusive design education.

Emily was previously a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she taught studios, and courses in representation and climate change. She has also taught core urbanism and options architecture studios at Northeastern University. She holds both Master of Architecture (MArch) and Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degrees from the Harvard GSD.

Education

• Columbia University - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2009 — 2009)
• Glasgow School of Art (2005 — 2006)
• Bachelor's degree Lehigh University (2003 — 2006)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The University of Virginia School of Architecture (2022)
• Design Critic in Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2019 — 2022)
• Lecturer of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2017 — 2018)
• Lecturer of Architecture Northeastern University (2017 — 2018)
• Instructor of Landscape Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016 — 2017)
• Research Assistant Atmosphere Anatomies (2015 — 2015)
• Architecture and Landscape Architecture Designer ZUS Zones Urbaines Sensibles (2014 — 2014)
• Furniture Designer Emily Wettstein (2010 — 2014)
• Architecture and Landscape Architecture Designer WORK Architecture Company (2013 — 2013)