R. Schnadelbach

Biographie : R. Terry Schnadelbach Professor and Chairman Universitiy of Florida Department of Landscape Architecture Gainesville, FL For over thirty years, R. Terry Schnadelbach has been an internationally known landscape architect, educator, ecologist, historian and author. He began his career in architecture, continued in landscape architecture, and has gained reputation as an urban designer, landscape architect, ecologist, historian and preservationist of the natural as well as the built landscape. As a practitioner, Schnadelbach has executed major landscape architectural commissions throughout the United States, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East. He has consulted to governments, institutions and private industry. His professional work has received numerous awards including those from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Design and the American Institute of Architects; and in New York City, the Phillip Winslow Award for Landscape Design of Public Spaces, the Parks Council Award and the City Club of New York's Bard Award for Civic Design. He has won international competitions and received the honored French Ruban d'Or in 1995 for his Pont d'Elon in Brest, France. In the United States, his work includes projects in the hospitality sector in Tucson, Ariz., and Brainard, Minn., residential development at Killington Ski Resort, Vermont, and the environmental planning for the Ken Carlyle Ranch in Colorado. As a landscape architectural historian, Prof. Schnadelbach has worked on the restoration of Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo park system and Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey. He has restored Phipps Garden Apartments, Sunnyside, New York - a twentieth century landscape of Clarence Stein, Henry Wright and Marjorie S. Cautley. Prof. Schnadelbach has written on Frederick Law Olmsted, Ian McHarg and Edward G. Lawson. He is the author of the book: Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, 2001. Internationally, Professor Schnadelbach is the landscape historian of the Angkor civilization at Siem Reap, Cambodia for the work being done by the World Monuments Fund. Prof. Schnadelbach is a graduate in architecture from Louisiana State University and in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1964 and 1965, he won the American Academy in Rome's coveted Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. He has twice returned to the American Academy in Rome as an Artist/Scholar-in-Residence. He has taught landscape architecture, urban design, ecology and real estate development at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia University. At Rhode Island School of Design, he held the Lowthrup Chair of Landscape Architectural History. Currently, He is Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and program coordinator for landscape architecture at the University's Paris Research Center, Paris, France. Schnadelbach has been a member of the Urban Land Institute since 1984 and was a member of the International Council from 1986 to 1996. He has served as a ULI-Advisory Service Panelist on nine missions. These have included panels in Atlanta (2), Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Trenton and Tuston, Ca., as well as ULI=s first international ASP in Cracow, Poland. June 08