Udo Weilacher
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Udo Weilacher, Prof. Dr. sc. ETH, (born 1963) is a German landscape architect, renowned author and Professor for Landscape Architecture.
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[edit] Biography
Udo Weilacher, born in Kaiserslautern/ Germany, studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan and at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. At the Technical University of Munich, were he received his diploma in 1993, Weilacher was influenced by his professor, Peter Latz who is a prominent German landscape architect and has done numerous projects internationally. At University of Karlsruhe (TH) and the ETH Zurich where he worked as a scientific assistant, it was professor Dieter Kienast, an internationally renowned Swiss landscape architect, who deeply influenced Weilacher in his theoretical and practical work. Udo Weilacher did extensive research on the relationship between art and landscape and on theory and history of contemporary landscape architecture. He published his works internationally and initiated numerous projects fusing art and landscape architecture, among others with the "Zeichen + Landschaft" association at the Technical University of Munich and the "Grenzland" lecture series at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. After teaching and research work at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and the ETH Zurich, were he gained his doctorate 2002 [1] , he became Professor for Landscape Architecture and Design [2] at the Leibniz University Hannover in 2002 and, in 2006, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences [3].
[edit] Publications (books)
- Weilacher, Udo (1996/1999): Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser Publisher ISBN 3-7643-6119-0
- Weilacher, Udo/ Wullschleger, Peter (2002): Guide to Swiss Landscape Architecture. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser Publisher
- Weilacher, Udo (2005): Visionary Gardens. Modern Landscapes by Ernst Cramer. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser Publisher ISBN 3-7643-6567-6
- Weilacher, Udo (2005): In Gardens. Profiles of contemporary European Landscape Architecture. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser Publisher ISBN 376437084X
- Bettina von Dziembowski, Dominik von König, Udo Weilacher (2007): NEULAND. Bildende Kunst und Landschaftsarchitektur. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser Publisher ISBN 9783764386191
- Weilacher, Udo (2008): Syntax of Landscape. The Landscape Architecture by Peter Latz and Partners. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser Publisher. ISBN 978-3-7643-7615-4
