Karl Kullmann
Landscape and urban design, landscape and urban theory, digital modelling and visualization
Karl Kullmann is a landscape architect, urban designer and Associate Professor at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches design studios in landscape architecture and urban design, and courses in landscape theory and digital modeling and visualization. Karl’s scholarship and creative work currently explores the cultural agency of topographically complex landscapes in the context of landscape and urban design. Karl has published widely on this subject through diverse lenses, including urban topography, green infrastructure, urban wastelands, public gardens, urban decline, spatial orientation and disorientation, design modeling and visualization, mapping and datascaping.
LD ARCH 203 Landscape Project Design
LD ARCH 102 Case Studies in Landscape Architecture Design
LD ARCH 134B Drawing Workshop II: Landscape Graphics in a Digital World
ED 201 Urban Places Advanced Studio
LD ARCH 257 Special Topics in Design
LD ARCH 201 Ecological Factors in Urban Landscape Design
Kullmann, Karl. 2019. “Three Lavas: A Field Guide to New Grounds.” Places Journal.
https://placesjournal.org/article/three-lavas/
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Kullmann, Karl. 2018. “The Landscape of Things.” Journal of Landscape Architecture. 13 (1): 32–41.
Journal link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2Fu8n98vBDkg6qTvRiKH/full
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Kullmann, Karl. 2018. “Things that Matter: Shaping Landscape Agency in the Anthropocene.” Kerb Journal (Contested Landscapes / Disruptive Practices) 25. In Press.
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Kullmann, Karl. 2018. Cultivating the City: Urban Design in Landscape Architectural Education. In K. Jørgensen, N. Karadeniz, E. Mertens and R. Stiles (eds.) Teaching Landscape 1: Didactics and Experiences (London: Routledge). In Press.
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Kullmann, Karl. 2018. “Design With (Human) Nature: Recovering the Creative Instrumentality of Social Data in Urban Design.” Journal of Urban Design. 1–18.
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/yUJueFrRxvHrnbk5Khui/full
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Kullmann, Karl. 2018. "The Shape of Things: Reimagining Landscape Parliaments in the Anthropocene." Forty-Five (Journal of Outside Research) 190.
Journal link: http://forty-five.com/papers/190
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Kullmann, Karl. 2018. “Reconceptualizing Suburban Terracing: Topographically Responsive Development Scenarios for a Sandy Coastal Site.” Landscape Journal 36 (1): 15–36.
Journal link: http://lj.uwpress.org/content/36/1/15.full.pdf+html
Open access link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ck9z0fx
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “Fields of Decline: Landscape Strategies in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt Region.” Landscape Architecture Australia 155: 19–23.
Open access link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dd5q39m
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “Aerial Reconnaissance: Drone Mapping Complex Landscapes in High Fidelity.” Frameworks. Fall 2017.
Journal link: https://frameworks.ced.berkeley.edu/2017/aerial-reconnaissance/
Open access link: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z5257sx
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “The Drone’s Eye: Applications and Implications for Landscape Architecture.” Landscape Research: 43 (7): 906–921.
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MBIr4MMw3ng7dQq9BvhT/full
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “The Satellite’s Progeny: Digital Chorography in the Age of Drone Vision.” Forty-Five (Journal of Outside Research) 57.
Journal link: http://forty-five.com/papers/157
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m66j4f9
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “Dis/orientation Machines: Journeys Into Labyrinthine Landscapes.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 38 (1): 1–23.
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9R6bEzVIab5bxhbmvxWu/full
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “The Garden of Entangled Paths: Landscape Phenomena at the Albany Bulb Wasteland.” Landscape Review 17 (1): 58–77.
Journal link: https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/view/1009/683
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4513s71n
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “The Mirage of the Metropolis: City Imaging in the Age of Digital Chorography.” Journal of Urban Design 23 (1): 123–141.
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ktawKEemUpYcgqCk23eI/full
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “Fluid Geographies: Strategies for the Landscape Left Behind.” Scenario Journal (Migration) 6.
Journal link: http://scenariojournal.com/article/fluid-geographies/
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d79x3n3
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “High Fidelity: Drone Mapping Fills a Missing Link in Site Representation.” Landscape Architecture Magazine 107 (5): 132–139.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zf444fk
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “Design Liquidity: Reflections on Procurement Processes.” Ground Up (Process) 6: 112–117.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bz1x10j
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Kullmann, Karl. 2017. “Hong Kong, Grounded: Photographs of the Contact Zones Between the Mountain and the Multilevel Metropolis.” Places Journal.
Journal link: https://doi.org/10.22269/170502
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/35f8h2z2
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Kullmann, Karl. 2016. “Disciplinary Convergence: Landscape Architecture and the Spatial Design Disciplines.” Journal of Landscape Architecture 11 (1): 30–41.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2016.1144668
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mh243wq
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Kullmann, Karl. 2016. “Book Review: Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim, Editors: Is Landscape…? Essays on the Identity of Landscape” Journal of Architectural Education.
Journal link: http://www.jaeonline.org/articles/reviews-books/landscape-%E2%80%A6-essays-identity-landscape#/page1/
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h40j51k
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Kullmann, Karl. 2016. “Concave Worlds, Artificial Horizons: Reframing the Urban Public Garden.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 37 (1): 15–32.
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RIiazQ39iTmUjRFIIBvN/full
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nw9m6x4
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Kullmann, Karl. 2016. “Innovations in Topographically Sensitive Urban Design: Evaluation of Landform Conservation Strategies in Perth’s Northern Suburbs.” Australian Planner 53 (3): 232–250.
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/I7vWrpCskjv5kVYxqBuC/full
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qf248xb
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Kullmann, Karl. 2016. “Route Fittko: Tracing Walter Benjamin’s Path of No Return." Ground Up (Delineations) 5: 70–75.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4k46d5t1
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Kullmann, Karl. 2015. “The Usefulness of Uselessness: Towards a Landscape Framework for Un-activated Urban Public Space.” Architectural Theory Review 19 (2): 154–173.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2014.967330
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/04q2778c
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Kullmann, Karl. 2015. Aerial Visions / Ground Control: the Art of Illustrative Plans and Bird’s Eye Views. In N. Amoroso (ed.), Representing Landscapes: Digital. London: Routledge: 83–97.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nr511nw
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Kullmann, Karl. 2015. “Grounding Landscape Urbanism and New urbanism.” Journal of Urban Design 20 (3): 311–313.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2015.1030996
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/59m5s7m2
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Kullmann, Karl. 2015. “Ecologies of Spectacle: Reflecting on the New Presidio Parklands Design Competition.” Ground Up (Out West) 4. 100–105.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/65f13085
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Kullmann, Karl. 2014. “Hyper-realism and Loose-reality: the Limitations of Digital Realism and Alternative Principles in Landscape Design Visualization.” Journal of Landscape Architecture 19: 20–31.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2014.968412
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w89h96j
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Kullmann, Karl. 2014. “The Emergence of Suburban Terracing on Coastal Dunes: Case Studies Along the Perth Northern Corridor, Western Australia, 1930-2010.” Journal of Urban Design 19 (5): 593–621.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2014.943704
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/11w540kd
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Kullmann, Karl. 2014. “Red Loops, Green Links: Park Rabet and Urban Decline in East Leipzig.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 34 (4): 259–274.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2014.916035
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xj99167
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Kullmann, Karl. 2014. “Towards Topographically Sensitive Urbanism: Re-Envisioning Earthwork Terracing in Suburban Development.” Journal of Urbanism 8 (4): 331–351.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2014.896395
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ds96074
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Kullmann, Karl. 2013. “Design for Decline: Landscape Architecture Strategies for the Western Australian Wheatbelt.” Landscape Journal 32 (2): 243–260.
Journal link: http://lj.uwpress.org/content/32/2/243.full.pdf+html
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8433436n
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Kondolf, G.M., Mozingo, L.A., Kullmann, K., McBride, J.R., & Anderson, S. 2013. “Teaching Stream Restoration: Experiences from Interdisciplinary Studio Instruction.” Landscape Journal 32 (1): 97–114.
Journal Link: http://lj.uwpress.org/content/32/1/95.full.pdf+html
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Kullmann, Karl. 2013. “Green-Networks: Integrating Alternative Circulation Systems into Postindustrial Cities.” Journal of Urban Design 18 (1): 36–58.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2012.739545
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7380573r
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Kullmann, Karl. 2012. “De/framed Visions: Reading Two Collections of Gardens at the Xi’an International Horticultural Exposition.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 32 (3): 182–200.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2012.681890
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cf8n9sg
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Kullmann, Karl. 2012. “Garden of Resistance: Discovering the Albany Bulb.” Ground Up (Landscapes of Uncertainty) 1: 49–51.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0k90x6w7
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Kullmann, Karl. 2011. “Thin Parks / Thick Edges: Towards a Linear Park Typology for (Post)infrastructural Sites.” Journal of Landscape Architecture 12: 70–81.
Journal link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2011.9723456
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/24z1m79f
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Kullmann, Karl. 2011. “Leaping Bridges, Forking Paths: Notes from the 2011 Xi’an World Horticultural Expo.” Landscape Architecture Magazine 101 (8): 98–110.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/00b0v8pp
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Kullmann, Karl. 2011. “De/Framed Gardens: 2011 World Horticultural Expo, Xi’an, China.” Topos (The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design) 76: 106.
Open access link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2v74d35r
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Kullmann, Karl & Weller, Richard. 2000. “Strange Parks: 1000 Words on the Downsview Five.” Juncus (Downsview Park) 1.
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Kullmann, Karl. 1999. “Avant-Gardener: Why There Are No Famous Landscape Architects and Other Stories.” Echo (Journal of the Western Australian Institute of Landscape Architects) 2: 23.
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Kullmann, Karl. 1996. “The Big Sky: Landscape on the Pacific Edge.” Architecture Australia 85 (1): 24.
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Kullmann, Karl. 1996. “The Paradox of Place: Postmodern Transformations.” Proceedings of the Australasian Design Workshop (Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology) 1: 34–41.
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