'The City is a 1,000 Poems': A Conversation with Ted Landrum
Synopsis
In this conversation, Ted Landrum advocates for poems as means to discuss architecture. Poetry is necessary, even in conferences and scientific events, because architectural qualities—ones that moves us, surprise us, and liberate us—cannot be captured in numbers or prose. He vouches for the importance of connecting with the stories of a city and urges architects and academics to trust in poetry as it enables them to move beyond their disciplinary and social bubbles by connecting with their city’s poets and its poetry communities. Reading and writing poetry are also ways that connect us with places and people, while transcending specific places and moving towards a multiplicity of places and meanings.
Volume
Pages
143-149
Published
December 31, 2025
Copyright (c) 2025 Klaske Havik, Angeliki Sioli, Vincent A. Cellucci, Jeremy Allan Hawkins
How to Cite
Sioli, A. (2025). ’The City is a 1,000 Poems’: A Conversation with Ted Landrum. In K. Havik, A. Sioli, V. A. Cellucci, & J. A. Hawkins (Eds.), Poetics of Place (pp. 143-149). TU Delft OPEN Books. https://doi.org/10.59490/mt.215.48



