# Udo Weilacher

Dr. Udo Weilacher (born 1963 in Kaiserslautern) is a German landscape architect, author and Professor for Landscape Architecture.

## Biography

Udo Weilacher was educated as a gardener in 1984. He studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan and at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona between 1986 and 1993. Since 1995, Weilacher has been an officially registered Garden- and Landscape Architect at the Chamber of Architecture in Germany. At the Technical University of Munich he received his diploma from the German landscape architect and professor Peter Latz. He worked with the renowned Swiss landscape architect Dieter Kienast as a scientific assistant and a lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe and the ETH Zürich, where he gained his distinguished doctorate (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) in 2001.
In 2002 Weilacher became full professor for Landscape Architecture and Design at the Leibniz University Hannover and, in 2006-08, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences. Since April 2009 Udo Weilacher has been a full professor for Landscape Architecture and Transformation at the Technische Universität München, Department of Architecture, TUM School of Engineering and Design.
Weilacher worked from 1998 to 2002 as a freelance journalist for NZZ FOLIO, the monthly magazine of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He does extensive research on the relationship between art and landscape, on the theory and history of contemporary landscape architecture, and on the transformation of former cultural landscapes, e.g. industrial landscapes in the Alps. He published his works internationally, is a member of international juries and scientific advisor in editorial boards of scientific magazines and research institutes.

## Academic Memberships

Udo Weilacher is or was a member of national and international scientific and professional organizations:
* BDLA, German Association of Landscape Architects
* DGGL, German Society of Garden Architecture and Landscape Culture
* CGL, Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architecture at the Leibniz University Hannover
* Deutscher Werkbund, German Association of Craftsmen
* International Doctoral College "Spatial Research Lab"

## Honors and awards

* 1990 Special Recognition by the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona for excellent program achievement
* 1995 Peter Joseph Lenné-Award in Germany for outstanding landscape design project
* 1995 Schinkel-Award in Germany for outstanding landscape design project
* 2001 Medal of the ETH Zurich for outstanding dissertation
* 2011 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation of Landscape Studies in New York for the book Syntax of Landscape. The Landscape Architecture by Peter Latz und Partners
* 2017 Mellon Practitioner Resident at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.

## Publications (selection)

* Full list of publications at the Technical University of Munich
* Weilacher, Udo (1996/1999): Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser; ISBN 3-7643-6119-0
* Weilacher, Udo (2005): Visionary Gardens. Modern Landscapes by Ernst Cramer. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser; ISBN 3-7643-6567-6
* Weilacher, Udo (2005): In Gardens. Profiles of contemporary European Landscape Architecture. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser; ISBN 3-7643-7084-X
* Weilacher, Udo (2006): Promises instead of ready-made answers. in: Quart Verlag, Luzern (ed.): Schweingruber Zulauf. Volume 3 of the Series Arcadia 2006. 8-49. Luzern: Quart Verlag; ISBN 3-907631-33-1
* Udo Weilacher: Switzerland und approximately 18 other contributions in: Taylor, Patrick (ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Garden. Oxford University Press, New York 2006; ISBN 0-19-866255-6
* Udo Weilacher (2007): The Garden as the Last Luxury Today: Thought-Provoking Garden Projects by Dieter Kienast. in: Conan, Michel (ed.): Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations. 81-95. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-88402-325-7
* Udo Weilacher (2007): Land Art in: Colafranceschi, Daniela (ed.): Landscape + 100 words to inhabit it. Land&ScapeSeries. 108-110. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili SL.
* Weilacher, Udo (2008): Syntax of Landscape. The Landscape Architecture by Peter Latz and Partners. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser; ISBN 978-3-7643-7615-4
* Weilacher, Udo (2020): Garden Thinking in Cities of Tomorrow. in: SPOOL. Journal of Architecture and the Built Environment, vol. 6; doi:https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2020.1.5484
* Weilacher, Udo et.al.(2023): Waterways transformation in the vulnerable port city of Alexandria. in: Cities, vol. 141, Oct. 2023; doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104426