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Articles: Karsten Jørgensen is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where he currently
is head of division of landscape design. His teaching and research interest focus on the history of landscape design with a
focus on the 19th and 20th Centuries. Martin Prominski is Associate Professor for Theory of Contemporary Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture
and Landscape at the University of Hannover/ Germany. He holds a diploma in landscape planning from the Technical University
of Berlin and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. He worked as a Landscape Architect for Atelier Loidl
in Berlin and Hargreaves Associates in Cambridge/ MA. From 1998 – 2003 he taught design studios and theory classes at
TU Berlin and completed his ph.d. thesis („Landschaft entwerfen“. Berlin, Reimer Verlag: 2004). His research currently
focuses on contemporary cultural landscapes and process-orientated design strategies.
Under the Sky: Bernadette Blanchon-Caillot is an architect dplg, Senior lecturer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles,
having worked with Alexandre Chemetoff and his « Bureau des Paysages ». Her teaching and research work concentrates on the
contribution of a landscape culture to a reflection on urban extensions; she also focuses on the question of project analysis.
She is currently preparing a thesis on relations between landscape practises and the urban project from 1939 to 1975
Thinking Eye: Catherine Dee is currently Senior Lecturer in Landscape Design at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, UK.
She has a background in fine art as well as landscape architecture, and her work and interests are concerned with the happy and the
unfortunate interface and connections between these two related but ultimately dissimilar practices, and the question “What kind of
art is an ecological landscape architecture?” Her early book: ‘Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A visual introduction’
(Spon 2001) was largely based on teaching experience; an interest in drawing; and a frustration with the sparseness of visually-based
introductory ‘readers’ for the discipline. Dissatisfied with the rather flimsy theoretical basis for this book she has since pursued
research enquires into the potential, functions and neglect of the visual, (especially drawing), in and for landscape architectural
research and practice (AHRB Innovations Award: Eye and Mind, 2003-04) (‘Imaginary texture of the real’ Landscape Research 2004).
In 2004 she reinstated her fine art practice via environmental installation. Broadly, her work addresses Smithson’s question
“Could one say that art degenerates as it approaches gardening”? Robert Smithson (1968)
Book Reviews: Malene Hauxner is doctor agronomiae and holds a professorship in landscape architecture with special duties in theory, methods and
history at the Department of Parks and Urban Landscape, Centre for of Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Life Sciences,
Denmark. Since her graduation from Royal Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture in 1970 she has been
occupied in the field of et landscape architecture as researcher, disseminator, teacher and practician. The research results emerge
from the dissertation “Fantasiens Have: Det moderne gennembrud i havekunsten og sporene i byens landskab”, The Danish Architectural
Press, 1993 and “Open to the Sky. The second phase of the modern breakthrough 1950-1970. Building and landscape, spaces and works,
city landscape”, The Danish Architectural Press, 2003. Awarded Nykredit’s prize of Architecture and Royal Academy of Fine Art’s
Høyen medal for research and dissemination.
Editorial Assistant Barbara Birli
DI Barbara BIRLI
Department of Landscape Architecture
Vienna University of Technology
Operngasse 11
1040 Vienna
Austria
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Han Lörzing (Netherlands)
Marc Rumelhart (France)
Tom Simons (Finland)
Simon Swaffield (New Zealand)
Catharine Ward Thompson (UK)
Udo Weilacher (Germany)
Kongjian Yu (China)
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