Heidi Hohmann Biography
Heidi Hohmann is an
associate professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State University
(ISU), where she has taught landscape history, historic landscape
preservation, and landscape architectural design for the past 9 years. Ms.
Hohmann is a registered landscape architect, has a B.S. from
Yale College and an MLA from Harvard University.
Her area of scholarly expertise is the history of late 19th and
early 20th century landscape design, including cemeteries, urban and
CCC-era parks, and designed roadways.
Her work on historic roadways began with the
Colonial Parkway Cultural Landscape
Report, completed for the National Park Service (NPS).
This project, which outlined the 200-year history and existing
conditions of this automobile parkway connecting Jamestown and Yorktown, Virginia, won a
National American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) award in 1998.
Professor Hohmann is conversant in the
processes and methods of scenic byway documentation and management, having
worked on the Taconic State Parkway
Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan for the New York State
Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in 1998-9 and on the
Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Corridor Management Plan for the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Alliance in 1999. Her other publications on roadways include "Roadways and
the Land: The Landscape Architect’s Role," with Dan Marriot and Elizabeth
Fischer, published in Public Roads
Magazine. She has lectured on historic landscape and roadway
preservation to a wide range of audiences, including the Federated Garden
Clubs of Iowa, the Iowa Annual Statewide Preservation Conference, and the
National Preservation Forum.
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