Dr. Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto Assistant Professor Email: rfg@umd.edu Office: 2140 Plant Sciences Building Phone: 301.405.4341 Fax: 301.314.9308

Education and Experience:

• Ph.D. in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, 2004.
• Master of Science in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, 2004.
• Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, 1999.
• Laurea (summa cum laude) in Architecture, University of Palermo, Italy, 1996.
  

Area of Specialization:

Dr. Fabiani Giannetto's area of specialization is early modern Italian gardens with emphasis on the Tuscan region. Her research interests include the history of landscape architecture; historiography; and contemporary landscape design. Recently she has been working on the reception of the Italian garden tradition in the late 19th century and early 20th century both in Italy and in the United States.

Research Projects:

• Foreign Trends on American Soil, a symposium to be hosted at University of Maryland in Spring 2010.
  

Courses:

• LARC470: Landscape Architecture Theory
  
• LARC240: Graphic Communication and Design Studio
  
• LARC663: Landscape and Garden History

Publications:

Books Authored

• 2009 Paolo Bürgi Landscape Architect: Kreuzlingen Hafenplatz
  Forthcoming in Source Books in Landscape Architecture (volume editor) - Princeton Architectural Press.
• 2008 Medici Gardens: From Making to Design
  Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture - University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Chapters in books

• 2010 "Types of Gardens in the Renaissance"
  Invited contribution to the forthcoming multivolume series The Cultural History of Gardens, edited by John Dixon Hunt and Michael Leslie - Berg Publishing.

Peer-reviewed chapters in books

• 2009 "From Cactus to Edelweiss: Reassessing the Italian Garden Tradition"
  Forthcoming in Recent Issues in Italian Garden Studies: Sources, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives, edited by John Beardsley - Harvard University Press.

Presentations:

Spring 2009

• Garden Poiesis between Art and Science
  The Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, 19-21 March
• The Idea of Italy between
  Formal Gardens and Natural Landscapes The Green Nineteenth Century - 30th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 26-28 March

10/19 - 20/2007

• From Cactus to Edelweiss: Reassessing the Italian Garden Tradition Recent Issues in Italian Garden Studies: Sources, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives. 31st Symposium in Garden and Landscape Studies Dumbarton Oaks - Washington D.C.

Awards and Honors:

• 09/2004 -05/2005 Post-doctoral Fellowship for Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

Competitively Awarded Grants:

• 2008 General Research Board (GRB) - Research Support Award
• 2006 American Philosophical Society - Franklin Grant