Dr. Werner Nohl · landscape architect · honorary professor (Technical University of Munich)

job history

Dr. Werner Nohl, born 1938, free-lancing landscape architect (retirement 2020), honorary professor (Technical University of Munich).

Illustration: Till Lassmann, Hamburg, 2015

Professional education in landscape architecture and city planning at the Technical University of Berlin (diploma) and at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Doctorate (with distinction; title of dissertation: "Open space planning and emancipation") at the University of Hannover.

1970 -1983: After academic training lecturing and research work at the University of Hannover/Germany and at the Technical University of Munich/Germany.

Since 1980 member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architecture (2020 retirement)

1981 - 2008 member of the Institute of Media Research and Urbanistics (IMU) in Munich, serving as founding and board member, later on as member of the advisory board)

1983 - 2020 owner of the "Werkstatt für Landschafts- und Freiraumentwicklung" (office for landscape and open space development) in Kirchheim nr. Munich/Germany. Scope of work: planning, research, consulting, and expertise activities. Far-flung experiences in interdisciplinary cooperation.

In 1994 appointment as Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Agriculture, later on School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan. Emphasis: Social aspects in urban open space planning and landscape planning. Termination of lecturing in 2006.

1996 - 2022 Sworn and publicly appointed expert on landscape aesthetics and outdoor recreation

1999 Research Fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan Environment Agency, Tsukuba, Japan.

2006/2007 Research year at the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia

planning activities

Urban open space planning, public park management in cities, city planning
Landscape planning and nature conservation
Landscape planning contributions to planning activities in different land uses
Landscape planning aspects in recreation, tourism, and leisure
Landscape aesthetics, aesthetic perception and appreciation of landscape
Social aspects of urban open space planning and landscape planning
Cooperative planning, mediation in the planning process, participation
Developmental concepts in urban open space planning, landscape planning and nature conservation

fields of work

Social and socio-spatial aspects of open space and city planning
Urban and regional aspects of open space use
Open space provision in the field of public open spaces, institutional open spaces, private open spaces
The use of parks, playgrounds, sport grounds, allotment gardens, historical gardens
Ecologically and socially oriented urban renewal and urban redevelopment
Scenic values in urban and rural landscape
Social aspects of recreation and tourism in landscape planning
The interplay between recreation-friendly environments and environment-friendly recreation
Theoretical, empirical, conceptional and planning aspects of landscape aesthetics
Investigations in the role of landscape aesthetics in various land use planning activities (land consolidation, agriculture, forestry, nature conservation)
Implementation of plans, aspects of cooperative planning, and participation processes in open space and landscape planning
Social aspects of death and dying in modern society and in cemetery culture as basis for cemetery planning

memberships

Bavarian Chamber of Architects
German Society of Rural Landscape
Association of Landscape Preservation, Species Protection, and Biodiversity (Member of the Advisory Board)

licensings

Expert activities finished in 2022 for reasons of age.