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The Administration at the College of Environment and Design


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Joseph Disponzio
Associate Professor
(706)-542-2916
disponz@uga.edu

 
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University
Master of Philosophy, Columbia University
Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia
Master of Science Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University
Bachelor of Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  
Teaching Experience
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture
Bryn Mawr College, Growth and Structure of Cities Program
 
Practice Experience
Registered Landscape Architect, New York State
New York Department of Parks and Recreation, Landscape Architect
Schnadelbach Associates, Paris, France. Bureau Chief
 
Recent Publications
"Europe as a guiding model - the U.S. as future reality?" in Event Landschaft? Zeitgenöche deutsche Landschaftsarchitektur / Event Landscape? Contemporary German Landscape Architecture. Ed. Thies Schröder. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2003.
 
Introduction to Claude-Henri Watelet's "Essay on Gardens." Translated by Samuel Danon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
 
"Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape Architecture," in Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art. eds. John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
 
"From Garden to Landscape: Jean-Marie Morel and the Transformation of Garden Design," AA Files 44 (Autumn 2001).
 
"Jean-Marie Morel: A Catalogue of his Landscape Design," Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. John Dixon Hunt, ed. Nos. 3 & 4(July-December 2001).
 
In Preparation:
Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design, co-edited with Melissa Vaughn. Washington, D.C.: Grayson Press.
 
"The Garden Theory and Landscape Practice of Jean-Marie Morel" Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
 
Interests
History and theory of landscape architecture
Representation of the built environment
The philosophy, science and culture of gardens and landscapes
 
Current Teaching Assignments
EDES 2520/6560 History of the Built Environment
EDes 6900 Reading the Landscape
Land 1600 Research Strategies
 
 
 


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