Peter Latz - Early Life

Early Life

Peter Latz was born in Darmstadt and grew up in the Saarland as the son of Heinrich Latz, a German architect. After graduating from high-school he studied landscape architecture at the Technische Schule in Munich, and after taking his diploma in 1964, he joined the four year post graduate education in town planning at the Institute of Urban Development and Regional Planning at the RWTH Aachen. Peter Latz and his wife, Anneliese, founded their landscape architecture office in Aachen and in 1968 in Saarbrücken under the name Latz + Partner. Another urban planning, system planning and landscape planning was set up in 1970 and directed until 1976. Latz continue to practice landscape architecture and town planning since then, working with groups of architects, sociologists, and economists. Peter Latz started teaching in 1968 as a lecturer at the Limburgse Akademie voor Bouwkunst in Maastricht. He became a full time professor for landscape architecture at the Gesamthochschule Kassel in 1973 and was appointed as a professor at the Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning Department at the Technical University of Munich in 1983 where he retired in 2008.

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