Lisa Babette Diedrich studied architecture and urbanism in Paris, Marseille and Stuttgart, journalism in Berlin, and landscape architecture at the University of Copenhagen, where she received her doctoral degree. Since 1993, she has run her own office as a critic and consultant in urban design and landscape architecture. From 1993 to 2000 she was an editor of Topos European Landscape Magazine, and from 2000 to 2006 she worked as personal advisor to the Chief Architect of Munich in the city’s Department of Public Works. Since 2006 she has been editor-in-chief of the book series Landscape Architecture Europe (#1 Fieldwork/ #2 On Site/ #3 In Touch/ #4 On The Move/ #5 Care Create Act/ #6 Second Glance/ #7 Full of Life) and of ’scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism. In 2007 she moved into academia, teaching and researching contemporary landscape architecture at universities in Europe, Australia and Latin America. From 2012 to 2023, she was Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Alnarp/Malmö in Sweden. From 2023 to early 2025 she held the Walter Gropius Chair (DAAD) at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA), Argentina. From 1 April 2025 she will be Professor of Landscape Architecture at the ÉLAN Chair ‘Designing Landscapes of the Anthropocene’ at the Technical University of Berlin. 

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Lisa Diedrich’s editorial responsibilities:

Triennial book series Landscape Architecture Europe 

‚scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism 

SPOOL open access journal, thread ‘Landscape Metropolis’

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