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Dr. Sonja Duempelmann
Assistant Professor
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Sonja Duempelmann received her Ph.D. at the University of the Arts Berlin, Germany, in 2002, and has been an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland since fall 2007. Previously she was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. She has worked as a landscape architect in Paolo Bürgi's office in Switzerland, has curated exhibitions in the field of landscape architecture history and has held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. Her book on the Italian twentieth-century landscape architect Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard and landscape architecture in Fascist Italy was published in 2004. Her research interests include the history of designed and cultural landscapes, parks and gardens, the history of city and regional planning, cross-cultural influences in design, and gender in landscape architecture. She is currently working on a new book project, Flights of Imagination: Aviation and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Landscape Design and Planning, on the influence of aviation on landscape.
Education
Dr.-Ing., Universität der Künste Berlin, 2002
Dipl.-Ing., Universität Hannover, 1998
Selected Publications
Books
Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-1974). Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Gartenkultur in Italien im 20. Jahrhundert (Weimar: VDG, 2004).
Karl Foerster: Vom großen Welt- und Gartenspiel, Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung vom 17.8. bis 22.9.2001 in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und vom 8.9. bis 7.10.2001 im Ausstellungspavillion auf der Freundschaftsinsel in Potsdam, ed. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, 2001).
Edited Books
(forthcoming) A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2011).
(forthcoming; together with Dorothee Brantz) Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011).
(with Carsten Neumann and Clemens Alexander Wimmer) Preußisch Grün: Hofgärtner in Brandenburg-Preußen (Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 2004).
Edited Journals
GHI Bulletin Supplement 4 “Pückler and America” (Washington DC: German Historical Institute, 2007)
Die Gartenkunst 18, 1 (2006).
Book Chapters
(forthcoming) “Garden Empires,” in A Cultural History of Gardens, volume 5 (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2011).
(forthcoming) "'Per la difesa del giardino': Gardens, Parks, and Landscapes between Tradition and Modernism in early Twentieth-Century Italy," in Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890-1940, Studies in the History of Art (National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press). Translation will appear in Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890-1940, CGL Reihe (Leibniz Universität Hannover and Martin Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung).
"Der Blick von oben: versteckte und entdeckte Landschaft zwischen 1920 und 1960," in Kunst Garten Kultur, ed. by Gert Gröning and Stefanie Hennecke (Berlin: Dietrich-Reimer-Verlag, 2010).
“Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-1974). Pioniera di una nuova cultura del giardino in Italia”, in Donne di fiori: Paesaggi al femminile, ed. Marta Isnenghi, Flaminia Palminteri and Ines Romitti (Milan: Mondadori Electa S.p.a., 2005), 18-21.
Articles
“Between Science and Aesthetics: Aspects of ‘Air-minded’ Landscape Architecture.” Landscape Journal 29, 2 (2010): 161-178.
"The Landscape Architect Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard in Britain: her international career 1946-1974," Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 30, 1 (2010): 94-113
“Foreword” in Paolo Bürgi. Landscape Architect. Discovering the Swiss Horizon: Mountain, Lake and Forest, ed. Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).
“Die Umnutzung von Flugplätzen: Der Orange County Great Park südöstlich von Los Angeles,” Stadt und Grün 58, 10 (Oct. 2009): 33-40.
“Creating Order with Nature: The emergence of park system planning in twentieth-century Washington, Chicago, Berlin and Rome,“ Planning Perspectives 24, 2 (2009): 143-173.
“Three Men in Search of a Modern Arcadia. Landscape architecture, planning and conservation between tradition and modernism, review essay in Journal of Planning History 6, 2 (May 2007): 166-186.
“Breaking Ground: Women Pioneers in Landscape Architecture. An International Perspective” in Patrick Mooney, ed., CELA 2006 Shifting Grounds Proceedings (Vancouver, 2006), 45-50.
“American System and Italian Beauty: Transnationale Aspekte der Parkplanung in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts,” Die Gartenkunst 18, 1 (2006): 119-142.
“The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America,” editorial Die Gartenkunst 18, 1 (2006): 1-9.
“ ‘La battaglia del fiore’. Gardens, Parks and the City in Fascist Italy,” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 1 (2005), 25: 40-70.
“«The garden is a national amenity». Zur Gartenkultur unter faschistischer Herrschaft in Italien,” in Gegen den Strom. Gert Gröning zum 60. Geburtstag, Beiträge zur räumlichen Planung, Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltentwicklung der Universität Hannover, Band 76, (Hannover, 2004), 93-110.
“Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-1974). Zum Einfluß gartenkultureller Entwicklungen in Italien, England und Deutschland auf ihre frühen Arbeiten,” Die Gartenkunst 15 (2003), 1: 141-157.
“Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-74): Her Development as a Landscape Architect between Tradition and Modernism,” Garden History 30 (2002),1: 49-73.
“Über den Gärtner und Schriftsteller Karl Foerster. „Suchet und ihr werdet noch ganz etwas anderes finden,“ Stadt und Grün 50 (2001), 11: 786-788.
“Zur Gartenkultur in Italien um 1930. Die Verbreitung ausländischer Gartenarchitektur durch den italienischen Architekten und Stadtplaner Luigi Piccinato (1899-1983),” Stadt und Grün 50 (2001), 1: 40-47.
“The Giardini Margherita in Bologna – an example of North Italian urban parks in the second half of the nineteenth century,” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 20 (2000), 1: 69-83.
“Zur Gartenkultur in Italien um 1930. Entwürfe ausländischer Gartenarchitekten als Ausgangspunkt für die Suche nach dem «giardino moderno»,” Stadt und Grün 49 (2000), 6: 404–410.
“Der Parco del Valentino in Turin. Beispiel einer italienischen Stadtparkanlage aus der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts,” Die Gartenkunst 11 (1999), 1: 81-94.
Recent Conference Organizations
“Pückler and America” International, interdisciplinary conference in cooperation with the Stiftung “Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau” in Bad Muskau, scheduled for June 22-25, 2006.
“The Place of Nature in the City in twentieth century Europe and North America” International conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (together with Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch), December 1-3, 2005.
“The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America” International Conference in cooperation with the Bavarian American Academy at the Bavarian American Academy in Munich, June 16-18, 2005.