Udo Weilacher

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Udo Weilacher (* 1963 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German landscape architect , university professor and author .

Life

UDO WEILACHER trained as a landscape gardener and studied from 1986 to 1993 landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich and sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , at the California State Polytechnic University at Los Angeles. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich with a degree in landscape architecture in 1993 and has been working in the office of "Weilacher Landschaftsarchitekten" since 1995 in cooperation with the freelance landscape architect Rita Weilacher. After working as a research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe and the ETH Zurich from 1993 with Professor Dr. Dieter Kienast received his doctorate in 2001 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich with distinction as "Dr. sc. ETH Zurich" . In 2002 he was appointed to the chair for landscape architecture and design at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at Leibniz University Hannover , where he established Germany's first junior professorship for the theory of contemporary landscape architecture. He headed the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape as Dean between 2006 and 2008 . Weilacher was appointed to the Technical University of Munich in April 2009 to succeed Professor Peter Latz as chair of landscape architecture and industrial landscape.

Research and Teaching

Weilacher has been researching the connection between landscape architecture and design , visual art and the history of garden art since 1993 and examines the development of current landscape architecture in Europe. This led to numerous publications and also to his election to the expert group of the Landart -Galerie Mechtenberg within the framework of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) between 1997 and 1999 as well as to his appointment as a member of the board of trustees of the Fritz Schumacher Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg. Since 2007 he has been a cooperation partner for the Technical University of Munich in the international doctoral college "Raum Forschungslabor" , which he runs as an interdisciplinary graduate school together with professors from the ETH Zurich , the Vienna University of Technology , the HCU Hamburg , the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Stuttgart .

Udo Weilacher is the author of numerous articles and relevant specialist books on the above-mentioned topics and between 1999 and 2003 wrote regularly about current landscape architecture in the monthly NZZ Folio of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He is a member of the German Werkbund (DWB), the Association of German Landscape Architects (bdla) and the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture eV (DGGL). As a garden and landscape architect , he has been a member of the Chamber of Architects (Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Bavaria) since 1995 and participates in various design advisory boards in German cities and as a specialist in numerous international competition and appraisal procedures.

Awards

  • 1990 "Special Recognition", distinction from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Los Angeles / USA) for excellent academic performance
  • 1995 Schinkel Prize for excellent design work in the field of landscape architecture
  • 1996 Peter Joseph Lenné Prize from the State of Berlin
  • 2001 ETH Zurich medal for excellent doctoral thesis
  • 2011 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation of Landscape Studies in New York for the book Syntax der Landschaft. The landscape architecture by Peter Latz and Partners
  • 2017 Mellon Practitioner Resident at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ( Harvard University ), Washington, DC

Fonts

Books
  • Between landscape architecture and land art. With prefaces by John Dixon Hunt and Stephen Bann. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 1996, ISBN 3-7643-5270-1 .
  • Visionary gardens. The modern landscapes by Ernst Cramer . With prefaces by Peter Latz and Arthur Rüegg. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6568-4 .
  • with Peter Wullschleger: Landscape Architecture Guide Switzerland. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6587-0 .
  • In gardens. Profiles of current European landscape architecture. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7084-X .
  • with Bettina von Dziembowski and Dominik von König (eds.): Neuland. Fine arts and landscape architecture. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8619-1 .
  • Syntax of the landscape. The landscape architecture by Peter Latz and Partners. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2008, ISBN 978-3-7643-7614-7 .
  • with Bettina von Dziembowski and Joachim Werren (eds.): Neuland. Landscape between reality and imagination. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0085-9 .
  • with Andrea Koenecke and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (eds.): The art of reinventing landscape. Work and work of Bernard Lassus. Meidenbauer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89975-116-1 .
  • with International Doctoral College Research Laboratory Room (Ed.): Research Laboratory Room. The Logbook / Spatial Research Lab. The logbook. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-127-9 .
  • with international doctoral college research laboratory space (ed.): Urbane Transformationslandschaften / Urban Landscape Transformation. Jovis, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-385-3 .
Essays
  • New aesthetics of urban agriculture. A field study. In: Susanne Kost, Christina Kölking (Hrsg.): Transitory city landscapes. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-13726-7 , pp. 179–194.
  • Switzerland and approx. 18 further articles in Patrick Taylor (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Garden. Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-19-866255-6 .
  • Imagery in motion. Accelerated and decelerated landscapes. Image Worlds in Motion. Landscapes Accelerated and De-accelerated. In: Brigitte Franzen , Stefanie Krebs (eds.): Micro landscapes. Landscape Culture on the Move. Microlandscapes. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-88789-150-3 , pp. 184-199.
  • Land Art. In: Daniela Colafranceschi (Ed.): Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it. Editorial Gustavo Gili SL, 2007, ISBN 978-84-252-2175-0 , pp. 108-110.
  • Gardens against people? Dieter Kienast's search for the balance between aesthetics and ecology. In: Ulrich Eisel, Stefan Körner (Hrsg.): Landscape in a culture of sustainability. Volume 2: Landscape design in the field of tension between aesthetics and use. University of Kassel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89117-166-0 , pp. 136–145 ( PDF; 235 KB )
  • The Garden as the Last Luxury Today. Thought-Provoking Garden Projects by Dieter Kienast. In: Michel Conan (Ed.): Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations. Harvard University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-88402-325-8 , pp. 81-95.

literature

Web links

Commons : Udo Weilacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Short version of the dissertation at the ETH Zurich (PDF)
  2. ↑ Professor profile at the Technical University of Munich
  3. ↑ International Doctoral College "Research Laboratory Space"
  4. ↑ List of publications at the Chair of Industrial Landscapes at the Technical University of Munich
  5. ↑ NZZ Folio: Article by Udo Weilacher
  6. ^ List of architects Bavarian Chamber of Architects
  7. ^ Book Awards 2011 from the Foundation of Landscape Studies, New York
  8. ↑ Mellon Practitioner Resident 2017
personal data
SURNAME Weilacher, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern