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Peter Latz graduated from the Technical University of Munich in 1964. After postgraduate research and studio
work in urban planning at the RWTH Aachen, he completed his studies in 1968. At that time he also started his
academic career as a lecturer at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Maastricht (Netherlands). He continued his
teaching activities 1973 as a full professor at the University Kassel and from 1983 until 2008 as the chair of
landscape architecture and planning at the Technical University Munich. Peter Latz lectures and teaches
worldwide, he was a guest professor at Harvard University and has been adjunct professor at the University of
Pennsylvania since 2000.
Peter Latz established the studio for landscape architecture and planning (since 1988 Latz + Partner) together
with his wife Anneliese in 1968. Their son Tilman, graduated architect and landscape architect, has joined the
office as a third partner in 2001.
Well known for his integrative and forward – looking work on projects of urban planning as well as large-scale
landscape architecture, planning of open space and ecological building, Peter Latz won numerous awards including
the First European Prize for Landscape Architecture Rosa Barba, the Grande Médaille d’Urbanisme of the
Académie d’Architecture Paris and the EDRA Places Award 2005.
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