Landscape Architect and educator Dorothée Imbert has been named as the new Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.
Imbert will take up a four-year term starting Fall 2020 and will follow in the footsteps of Michael B. Cadwell, FAIA, the current director who has served for nine years.
According to a university statement, Imbert has served as landscape architecture faculty at the school since 2013, when she joined the institution as the inaugural Hubert C. Schmidt ’38 Chair in Landscape Architecture. Prior to this experience, Imbert established the landscape architecture program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and spent time teaching at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
In 2019, Imbert was named as one of the 25 Most Admired Educators in the country by the DesignIntelligence survey within the landscape architecture category. Imbert earned an architect's diploma from the Unité Pédagogique d'Architecture nº 1 in Paris and received MArch and MLA degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She has practiced landscape architecture at the firm Peter Walker and Partners.
Imbert has published many books throughout her career, including volumes the work of Garrett Eckbo, French modernist gardens, and the work of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes, among several other topics.
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