User:Slangee/Eckart Lange (Landscape Architect)

Eckart Lange (* 4. Februar 1961 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany) is a German Landscape Architect. He is a Professor at the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield since 2004.

Life
From 1982, Lange studied Landscape Planning at the Technical University Berlin and at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Following his studies, he got a scholarship from the DAAD for the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he graduated with the Master in Design Studies. He received a Doctorate and earned his Habilitation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich in the field of Landscape Visualization and Space- and Landscape-design. In 2004, Lange became Professor at the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield where he was Head of Department from 2010 until 2014. As a representative of Great Britain, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen in the area of Spatial Planning and Management of Natural Resources. He was also a member of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

Lange is married, is father of two children and lives in Sheffield.

Honours and Awards
Lange got a Fellowship at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, National Institute of Environmental Studies) and was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, as well as Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.