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Edward Eigen is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Landscape and Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), serving as Domain Head for Narratives. He holds a doctorate in the History and Theory of Architecture from MIT. His research bridges humanistic studies with natural sciences, focusing on 19th-century European/Anglo-American contexts.
Education: PhD in History/Theory of Architecture (MIT), professional design training, and art history background. Research interests include museum histories, weather historiography, botanical systematics, and plagiarism in architectural theory. Recent projects examine presidential-era landscapes (Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Ford administrations) and reinterpreting non-canonical architectural artifacts.
Publications include On Accident (MIT Press, 2021) and contributions to edited volumes like Inscriptions. Awards include the David A. Gardner Magic Grant for research on architectural machines and Princeton’s graduate mentoring award. Organized exhibitions such as How to Model a Mountain and colloquia like Claiming Landscape as Architecture.
Teaching focuses on narrative structures in landscape architecture, with 2025 courses including History, Theory & Culture I and Proseminar in NARRATIVES. Current monograph: Beyond the Rose Garden analyzing landscapes tied to U.S. presidencies.
