
On September 12, join James Wescoat ASLA, Professor of Landscape Architecture at MIT, for a presentation on the growing importance of landscape architectural design in the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, and how it addresses the needs and aspirations of societies across the world.
James Wescoat is an Aga Khan Professor in MIT’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Co-Director of the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Professor Wescoat has researched water systems in South Asia and the US from the site to river basin scales. For the greater part of his career, he has focused on small-scale historical waterworks of Mughal gardens and cities in India and Pakistan.
