Dorothee Imbert

Dorothée Imbert is the inaugural Hubert C. Schmidt ’38 Chair and Director of the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture. From 2013–2020 she served as Head of the school’s Landscape Architecture Section. Prior to joining Ohio State, Imbert established the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Washington University in St. Louis, taught at Harvard University, and practiced at Peter Walker and Partners. She has lectured and written extensively on landscape modernism. She is the author of the books The Modernist Garden in France, Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (with Marc Treib), and Between Garden and City: Landscape Modernism and Jean Canneel-Claes, and the editor of the volumes Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation and Landscape Inventories: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste. Imbert has served on numerous boards, including Dumbarton Oaks, and as the Jury Chair of the inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. She continues to engage in research and design practice.