Dr. Sonja Duempelmann

Assistant Professor

E-Mail: sduempel@umd.edu
Office: 2144 Plant Sciences Building
Phone: 301 405-5491
Fax: 301 314-9308
Dr. Peter Dernoeden

Education and Experience:

  • Dr.-Ing. Universität der Künste Berlin, 2002
  • Dipl.-Ing. Universität Hannover, 1998

 

Area of Specialization:

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. She has worked as a landscape architect and has curated exhibitions in the field of landscape architecture history. 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, the history of cartography, cross-cultural influences in design, and gender in landscape architecture. She is currently working on a new book project on the influence of aviation on landscape.

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Selected Publications:

Books

Edited Books

  • (forthcoming) A Cultural History of Gardens, vol. V (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers).
  • (forthcoming; with Dorothee Brantz) The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth-Century Europe and North America (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press).
  • (with Carsten Neumann and Clemens Alexander Wimmer) Preußisch Grün: Hofgärtner in Brandenburg-Preußen (Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 2004).

Edited Journals

Book Chapters

  • (forthcoming) "Garden Empires" in A Cultural History of Gardens, vol. V, ed. Sonja Duempelmann (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers).
  • (forthcoming) Foreword: Paolo Bürgi. Landscape Architect. Discovering the Swiss Horizon: Mountain, Lake and Forest, ed. Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).
  • "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.
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Articles

  • "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.
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