Lars Hopstock

Lars Hopstock holds a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in landscape planning (TU Berlin) and works across landscape architecture, its history and theory, drawing on extensive experience in professional design practice and academic research. He most recently served as Junior Professor of Landscape Architecture at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and since 2026 has been a University Assistant (Postdoc) in the theory and history of landscape architecture, open space and landscape planning at TU Wien (FOB Landscape). His doctoral research at the University of Sheffield (2015) informed, among other publications, the monograph Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In (Jovis, 2024).

In his work, landscape architecture and garden heritage are approached as a field in which built artefacts emerge in relation to forms of knowledge, design practices, issues of resource use, and contexts of production. This involves questions of perspective, the situated nature of knowledge, as well as ideological and colonial dimensions. Central to this are gardens, urban open spaces and landscapes – and their conceptualisations – in the context of so-called Modernism. Further interests include forms of knowledge inherent to design practice, the aesthetics and ethics of nature, and contemporary debates in the context of new materialist and political-ecological approaches.

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