Career
Among his best known projects is the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in the Ruhr Area in Germany. The site of 230 hectares was formerly a very large steel mill. When it became derelict, Latz+Partners, the firm was commissioned to design the park after winning an international design competition with the master plan for the whole site in 1991. They decided to keep the main structures and to incorporate them into a postmodern landscape design. A series of gardens were planted within and around the ruins with the use of the traditional horticulture. Clipped hedges, knot gardens, parterres, bosks, and rose gardens had created juxtaposition between this formal garden that is situated within a post-industrial site. Duisburg-Nord was a successful landscape garden because Latz had altered the relationship that humans had with the existing site. Because of this project Peter Latz, besides the American landscape architect Richard Haag, is considered to be one of the international pioneers for the reclamation and conversion of former industrialized landscapes.
The philosophy of his Latz+Partners firm focuses not only on quality but also on the technical competence and the know-how. Since the 1980s, the firm begins to gear towards the metamorphosis of postindustrial sites.
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