Biographies > Organizers

 Nathalie de Harlez de Deulin (Belgium) is a garden historian with a master’s degree in architecture and PhD in history, art, and archaeology. She has supervised the Inventory of Historic Parks and Gardens of Wallonia, and coordinated studies of historic gardens in Belgium, France and Italy, and currently holds academic positions at the Haute Ecole Charlemagne/University of Liège in the master's programs in landscape architecture and the conservation of cultural heritage. She is member of the ICOMOS International Committee for Cultural Landscapes and the Belgian Royal Commission that monitors the listing, preservation, and restoration of historical parks and gardens.

 Marc Treib (United-States) is Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. As a historian and critic of landscape architecture and architecture he has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. Among his books are Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review (editor); The Architecture of Landscapes, 1940–1960 (editor); A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto (co-author), and most recently, The Shape of the Land: Topography and Landscape Architecture (editor), and Noguchi's Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture.