Dorothée Imbert, FASLA

Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

Address

202A Bauer Wurster Hall

dimbert@berkeley.edu

Address

202A Bauer Wurster Hall

dimbert@berkeley.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS

20th-century landscape history; designed forests; contemporary practice.

EDUCATION

MArch and MLA, UC Berkeley

Architecte D.P.L.G. (professional degree), Unité Pédagogique d'Architecture no 1 (Paris Malaquais), France

BIOGRAPHY

Dorothée Imbert is an academic, a scholar, and a designer. She has practiced as a landscape architect, published extensively on the subjects of landscape modernism, productive landscapes, and contemporary design. She has taught and held leadership positions at Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, and The Ohio State University. Imbert has served on numerous boards and juries, including Dumbarton Oaks, the Society of Architectural Historians, the American Academy in Rome, and as the jury chair of the inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architectural Prize. She was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and as a Distinguished Alum at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2024 Distinguished Alum, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

2023 Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects

2019 DesignIntelligence Most Admired Educator

2019 Annual College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award, The Ohio State University

2018 ASLA Professional Award of Excellence in Communications (with Kristi Cheramie and Justin Parscher), 100 Years of Landscape Architecture at The Ohio State University

2008 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Communications Landscape Manifestoes, themed issue of Landscape Journal, volume 26, no 2

1997 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Communications (with Marc Treib), Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living

1994 AIA Book Award for The Modernist Garden in France

1994 George Wittenborn Memorial Award for The Modernist Garden in France

Selected Publications

2018 A Landscape Inventory: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, editor (San Francisco, CA: AR+D)

2015 Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation, editor (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)

2009 Between Garden and City: Jean Canneel–Claes and Landscape Modernism (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press)

2005 Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (with Marc Treib), paperback edition (Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press)

1996 Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (with Marc Treib) (Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press)

1993 The Modernist Garden in France (New Haven, London: Yale University Press)