Peter Latz

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

Life

Peter Latz grew up as the son of the architect Heinrich Latz and to Oldest of eight siblings in the Saarland. After high school he studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich and went through after graduating in 1964, initiated by Professor Erich Kühn four-year urban education at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning RWTH Aachen University, with intensive practical work on urban renewal projects - coupled - mainly in the Ruhr had. In 1968, Peter Latz with his wife Anneliese office for landscape architecture in Aachen and in partnership with Herbert Kuske in Saarbrücken. In 1970 he founded with the architect Conny Schmitz, Dillingen, the SLS office for interdisciplinary urban planning, system planning and landscape planning and led it until 1976. Peter Latz was appointed in 1973 as a university professor at the University of Kassel, the office followed a year later. He built his first house in Kassel and thus joined a long-standing research project of passive solar energy and self-sufficiency. In 1983 he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Munich -Weihenstephan, the head office was moved five years later to the new workplace. Since 1991 located in Ampertshausen at Kranzberg the seat of the office. There, the landscape architect built a 100 year old agricultural estate into a horticultural experimentation and ecological demonstration object.

Among the best known projects realized by Peter Latz is one of the Landscape Park Duisburg -Nord, with whom he gained an international reputation (see Awards ) as a pioneer of landscape architectural conversion of disused industrial sites.

High school career

Peter Latz began teaching in 1968 as lecturer at the Academy Limburgse voor Bouwkunst in Maastricht and managed projects in architectural education, which was conducted in close connection with practice. In 1973 he was Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Kassel and ran together with colleagues applied research for alternative building technologies in free space and architecture. 1983 he was appointed to the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Technical University of Munich - Weihenstephan, he left in the spring of 2008 as Emeritus. Since the nineties, Peter Latz is in seminars, workshops and symposia around the world at universities active, he was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Design of University of Pennsylvania.

Awards

Peter Latz received for the groundbreaking design of the Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord in 2000 the First European Prize for Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, Rosa Barba and 2005 the Place Planning Award from the Environmental Design Research Association ( EDRA ) in Edmond, United States. The Académie royale d'architecture in Paris gave Peter Latz 2001, the Grande Médaille d' Urbanisme.

Projects (selection)

  • University of Marburg on the Lahn Bergen (1976-1980)
  • University Hospital Marburg on the Lahn Bergen (1976-1985)
  • Citizens Park Harbor Island, Saarbrücken (1980-1989)
  • 5 gardens for the Federal Horticultural Show 1985 in Berlin, " Green Houses ", Berlin - Britz ( 1981-1985)
  • Technical University of Munich, Institute for Landscape Management and Botany / main structure of open spaces, roofs, facade greenery (1986-1988)
  • Science City of Ulm on the donkey Mountain, West University area (1988-201)
  • Frankfurt Green Belt, Frankfurt am Main / Development Planning (1990-1992)
  • Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord (1990-2001)
  • Plateau de Kirchberg, Luxembourg (1990-2008)
  • Studio, Home and Garden in Ampertshausen, Kranzberg (1991 to present)
  • Pedestrian, Melsungen (1996 )
  • Granta Park near Cambridge, UK (1996-1999)
  • Jardin de brume, Festival International des Jardins, Chaumont -sur- Loire ( 1998)
  • Parco Dora, Turin (since 2004)
  • Hiriya Landfill Restoration, Ayalon Park, Tel Aviv ( since 2004)

Publications (selection )

  • 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
  • Peter Latz: Metamorphosis / 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
  • Udo Because Acher (ed. ): Learning from Duisburg Nord. Comments of international experts to a masterpiece of current landscape architecture. Technical University of Munich, Department of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape ( LAI ), Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-941370-07-4.
  • Udo Weilacher: Syntax of the landscape. The Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partners. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7614-7.
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