Udo Weilacher

Udo Because Acher (* 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, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in Los Angeles. At the Technical University of Munich, he graduated in 1993 as a graduate engineer in landscape architecture and is practically working in the office "Because Acher Landscape Architect" in cooperation with the freelance landscape architect Rita Weilacher since 1995. According to scientific staff activities since 1993 at the University of Karlsruhe and ETH Zurich with Professor Dr. Dieter Kienast, he received his doctorate in 2001 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich with distinction " Dr. sc ETH Zurich ". 2002 he was appointed to the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape of the Leibniz University of Hannover, where he established Germany's first Assistant Professor of Theory of current landscape architecture. The Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, he headed between 2006 and 2008 as dean. Because Acher was appointed in April 2009 at the Technical University of Munich to take over there, in the footsteps of Professor Peter Latz the chair of landscape architecture and industrial landscape.

Because Acher research since 1993 on the connection between landscape architecture and design, fine art and garden art history and examines the development of current landscape architecture in Europe. This led to numerous publications and beyond Emscher to his election to the panel of experts of the Land Art Gallery Mechtenberg in the Park International Building Exhibition (IBA ) between 1997 and 1999 and his appointment as a board member in the Fritz Schumacher Prize of the prestigious Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg. Udo Weilacher is the author of numerous papers and books on the subjects mentioned above and wrote between 1999-2003 regularly in the monthly magazine, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ Folio to current landscape architecture.

Udo Because Acher is a member of the Deutscher Werkbund ( DWB), the Federation of German Landscape Architects ( bdla ) and the German Society of Garden Art and Landscape Association ( DGGL ), as well as co-founder and consultant of landscape architecture gallery AedesLand in Berlin since 2006. He joined in 1995 as a garden - landscape architect and member of the chamber of Architects (Baden- Württemberg, Lower Bavaria) and participates in various design advisory German cities as well as an expert in numerous international competition and peer review process with.

Awards

Writings

  • Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art With forewords by John Dixon Hunt and Stephen Bann. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 1996, ISBN 3-7643-5270-1
  • Visionary gardens. The modern landscapes of Ernst Cramer. With forewords by Peter Latz and Arthur Rüegg. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6568-4
  • With Peter Wullschleger: Landscape Architectural 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 978-3-7643-7084-8
  • With Bettina von Dziembowski & Dominik von König ( eds.): unknown territory. Fine art and landscape architecture. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8619-1
  • Syntax of the landscape. The Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partners. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2008, ISBN 978-3-7643-7614-7
  • With Bettina von Dziembowski & Joachim Werren (ed.): unknown territory. Landscape between reality and imagination. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0085-9
  • Andrea Koenecke & Joachim Wolschke - Bulmahn (ed.): The art of inventing new landscape. Work and influence of Bernard Lassus. Avoid Bauer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8997-5116-1
  • With International Graduate Program Research laboratory (eds.): Research laboratory space. The logbook / Spatial Research Lab. The Logbook. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-127-9
  • Switzerland and about 18 other posts in Patrick Taylor ( ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Garden. Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-19-866255-6
  • Imagery in motion. Loading and decelerated landscapes. Image Worlds in Motion. Landscapes and Accelerated De -accelerated. In: Brigitte Franzen & Stefanie Krebs (eds.): Micro landscapes. Landscape Culture on the Move. Micro Landscapes. Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, 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 8425221757, pp. 108-110
  • Gardens against people? Dieter Kienast's search for a balance between aesthetics and ecology. In: Ulrich Eisel & Stefan Körner (ed.): Landscape in a culture of sustainability. Volume 2: Landscaping in the tension between aesthetics and utility. University of Kassel, 2007, ISBN 3-89117-166-8, 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
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