He believed that any struggle was one which could only be understood, unraveled, and a solution sought, by using a combination of the sciences and disciplines involved.
McHarg later modeled his TV series “The House We Live In” on the class, interviewing the great minds of the time irrespective of discipline for both, on matters involving environment, man’s involvement, and anything relating the two. In Fall 1957, McHarg offered a class Man and Environment was a class that grew vastly in popularity. However McHarg continued to teach until 1986, and continued to plan and dream until his death in 2001. Pardisan was at least partially responsible for McHarg’s separation with WMRT in 1979, due to the loss of their patron and the subsequent failure to be repaid for work and funds spent. Some of his more well-known business projects include The Woodlands, Pardisan, and The Potomac River Basin Study. He used studios, student projects, and media to explore situations he found of importance which were not covered (enough) by his business.
McHarg used his position as Professor and Professional to explore current trends in the social and governmental context. His impact in the world grew exponentially both in design fields, and beyond. Design with Nature, published in 1969, is considered by some his seminal work. He taught classes, and published several books, was the host of “The House We Live In” on CBS from 1960-1961, and in 1962 McHarg and David Wallace founded Wallace McHarg, which would later become the firm Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd (WMRT). In 1956 he was the founder of the reinstated Department of Landscape Architecture, and over the years he built an impressive guest and faculty roster, the year 1961 boasted the likes of Karl Lynn, Jack Fogg, Gordon Cullen, Aldo Van Eyck, Denise Scott-Brown, Garrett Eckbo, Philip Johnson, Dan Kiley, Robert Royston, and Peter Shepheard. He returned to Scotland to work and teach for several years, before once again coming to America in 1954 to the University of Pennsylvania to be an assistant professor of city planning. in Glasgow, but came to America for more formal schooling to get his degrees at Harvard University (B.L.A., M.L.A., and M.C.P.). He started his landscape architecture career apprenticing at Austin and McAslan, Ltd. He fought in World War II, and when he returned (as Major McHarg), he joined other soldiers retraining to enter the workforce at the School of Planning and Research for Regional Development in Gordon Square. McHarg spent his youth near Glasgow, where he took 30 mile hikes into the countryside, thus experiencing the rural land despite his urban life, and gaining a love for the latter. Born a Scotsman in 1920, Ian McHarg is frequently credited by those who know of him as the forefather and one of the first in the design profession to advocate symbiotic design with the natural world in the context of nature as a major concept fit to rival humanity in importance.
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