Robin Winogrond is an internationally recognized landscape architect / urban designer based in Zurich. Her award-winning projects span public space, installations and large-scale open spaces. Formerly teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design, she lectures, teaches and publishes widely. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background, Winogrond’s approach focuses on identity of place, atmosphere, embodied experience, and social engagement. Under the title In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment, her work expresses the poetic, site specific potential of urban and suburban sites to become powerful experiences of place.

My teaching focuses on creating a personal reading and interpretation of the proposed site, a clear thesis about the potent identity of that site. Thsi creates the basis for developing a personal design language for an innovative, site-specific design intervention. Conceptual designs are transformed into powerful spatial, atmospheric experiences of a specific place able to go under our skin. I refer to this as creating “geographical re-enchantment” within the contemporary urban and suburban landscapes, incorporating the many functions, constraints, paradoxes, frictions and conflicts which imbue our everyday surroundings