Peter Latz

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Peter Latz (born October 19, 1939 in Darmstadt ) is a German landscape architect and university professor .

Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord

Life

Peter Latz grew up as the eldest of eight children of the Saarwellingen architect Heinrich Latz and his wife Marianne (née Glückert) in Saarland . After graduating from high school, he studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich and, after graduating in 1964, went through the four-year advanced training program initiated by Professor Erich Kühn at the Institute for Urban Development and Regional Planning at RWTH Aachen University , which was  coupled with intensive practical work on urban renewal projects - mainly in the Ruhr area was. In 1968 Peter Latz and his wife Anneliese founded the office for landscape architecture in Aachen and in partnership with Herbert Kuske in Saarbrücken . In 1970 he founded the SLS office for interdisciplinary urban planning , system planning and landscape planning with the architect Conny Schmitz, Dillingen, and headed it until 1976. Peter Latz was appointed professor at the Kassel University in 1973 , the office followed a year later. He built his first house in Kassel and combined it with a long-term research project on passive solar energy and self-sufficiency . In 1983 he followed a call to the Technical University of Munich- Weihenstephan, the main office was relocated to the new place of work five years later. The office has been located in Ampertshausen near Kranzberg since 1991 . There, the landscape architect converted a 100-year-old agricultural property into a horticultural experimental field and ecological demonstration object.

The Duisburg-Nord landscape park is one of the best-known projects realized by Peter Latz , with which he achieved international renown (see awards) as a pioneer of the landscape-architectural conversion of disused industrial sites.

Teaching

Peter Latz began his teaching activity in 1968 as a lecturer at the Limburgse Akademie voor Bouwkunst (Limburger Baukunstakademie) in Maastricht and supervised projects in an architectural training that was carried out in close connection with practice. In 1973 he became a full professor for landscape architecture at the University of Kassel and, together with his colleagues, carried out applied research for alternative building technologies in open space and architecture. In 1983 he was appointed to the chair for landscape architecture and planning at the Technical University of Munich- Weihenstephan, which he left in spring 2008 as emeritus. Peter Latz was succeeded by Professor Dr. Udo Weilacher . Peter Latz has been active in seminars, workshops and symposia at universities around the world since the 1990s, he was visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and is adjunct professor at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania .

Memberships

Peter Latz is an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects .

Landscape architecture

Parco Dora
Ulm University
Granta Park near Cambridge
  • 1996–1999: Granta Park near Cambridge , UK
  • 1998: Jardin de brume, Festival International des Jardins , Chaumont-sur-Loire
  • since 2004: Parco Dora , Turin
  • since 2004: Hiriya Landfill Restoration, Ayalon Park , Tel Aviv

Honourings and prices

Filmography

  • 2013: Peter LATZ - Expériences de Paysage FFP - 26 January 2013
  • 2014: Rapperswilertag 2014 - Peter Latz
  • 2015: Building with Plants: Landscape Architect Peter Latz | Between Spessart and Karwendel | BR
  • 2015: Heinze ArchitekTOUR Congress 2014 - Interview Professor Peter Latz, Latz + Partner
  • 2019: ParkZeit in the Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord - Episode 1

literature

  • Peter Latz: ROST ROT - The Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Hirmer Verlag Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2426-2
  • Udo Weilacher (Red.): Learning from Duisburg North. Comments from international experts on a masterpiece of contemporary landscape architecture . Technical University of Munich, Chair for Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape (LAI), Munich 2009, ISBN 3-7643-6120-4 .
  • Udo Weilacher : Syntax of the Landscape. The landscape architecture by Peter Latz and Partners . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7614-7 .
  • Peter Latz: Metamorphoses / Metamorphosis . In: TOPOS Grow! Current trends in architecture and landscape. Current Tendencies in Architecture and Landscape . Callwey, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7667-1706-1 , pp. 60-65 .
  • Peter Latz: Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord. The metamorphosis of an industrial site . In: Niall Kirkwood (Ed.): Manufactured Sites. Rethinking the post industrial landscape . Spoon Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-24365-3 , pp. 150-162 .
  • First interview with Peter Latz in: Udo Weilacher : Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1996, ISBN 978-3-7643-7614-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary members of the Landscape Alumni Club of the TU Munich eV
  2. ↑ Peter LATZ - Expériences de Paysage FFP - January 26, 2013. In: YouTube. Expérience-s de paysage - FFP, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Rapperswilertag 2014 - Peter Latz. In: YouTube. Landschaftsarchitektur Rapperswil, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Building with plants: landscape architect Peter Latz | Between Spessart and Karwendel | BR. In: YouTube. Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Heinze ArchitekTOUR Congress 2014 - Interview Professor Peter Latz, Latz + Partner. In: YouTube. HeinzeNetworking, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ ParkZeit in the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park - Part 1. In: YouTube. Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Latz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt