Author Biographies
Rent from DeepDyve- Author Biographies
Jacky Bowring is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She has published widely in international academic and professional journals, and is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy 2008 and editor of Landscape Review. Jacky is a registered landscape architect, and has had success in a number of national and international design competitions, including as a member of the winning team, NZ Wood, for last year’s 48 Hour Design Challenge for the Christchurch postquake rebuild.
Rebecca W. Bushnell is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Professor, as well as a professor of English and comparative literature. She is a scholar of classical and early modern English literature, culture, and history. Her most recent books include A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice; Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens; A Companion to Tragedy; and Tragedy: A Short Introduction. She has received grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Mark Crinson is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Empire Building: Victorian Architecture and Orientalism 1996, Modern Architecture and the End of Empire 2003, and Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence 2012. He has also edited Urban Memory: History and Amnesia in the Modern City 2005, James Stirling: Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture 2009, and (co-edited with Claire Zimmerman) Neo-Avantgarde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond 2010.
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto teaches landscape architectural history and theory at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. Fabiani Giannetto’s research interests focus on the Italian Renaissance garden, its legacy and historiography. In addition, she maintains an interest in contemporary landscape architecture, its theory and criticism. She is the author of Paolo Burgi Landscape Architect, Discovering the (Swiss) Horizon: Mountain, Lake, and Forest published by Princeton Architectural Press (2009), and Medici Gardens: From Making to Design published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2008), which was the recipient of the 2010 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Fabiani Giannetto’s current research addresses the reception of the Italian [End Page 145] garden tradition in the United States from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. This research is part of her larger book project titled Foreign Trends on American Soil.
Giovanni Galli received his degree in architecture at IUAV Venice and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa. Since 2000 he has served as a researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa, where he teaches Architectural Design and Theory of Architecture. His publications include Le maschere della forma: Manuale di composizione (Rome, 2008), “La teoria estetica di Leon Battista Alberti e la retorica ciceroniana,” in Macchine Nascoste, ed. R. Palma and C. Ravagnati (Turin, 2004), and “A Regulated Suasion: The Regulating Lines of Francesco di Giorgio and Philibert de l’Orme,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (London, 2002).
John Dixon Hunt is an Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He edits both the international journal Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, now in its thirty-second year, and the Penn series Studies in Landscape Architecture, in which over thirty titles have so far appeared. He is the author of many books and articles, his most recent being A World of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2012).
David Lowenthal, emeritus professor of geography and honorary research fellow at University College London, was previously Secretary of the American Geographical Society. He has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, Leverhulme, and Landes fellowships; is a medalist of the Royal Geographical, Royal Scottish Geographical, and American Geographical societies; a Fellow of the British Academy; and honorary D. Litt. Memorial University of Newfound-land. In 2010 he was awarded the International Institute of Conservation’s Forbes Lecture Prize, and in 2012 gave the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology’s inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures. Among his books are West Indian Societies 1972, Geographies of the Mind 1975, Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It? 1981...
