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Gabriel Wick

Lecturer

  • Department: Art History and Fine Arts

Born in England in 1977, Professor Wick began teaching at The听American University in Paris in Autumn 2014. He is a cultural听historian and a consultant on the restoration and conservation of听historic landscapes. He received his BA in architectural and听urban history from NYU in 2000, and his masters in landscape听architecture from UC Berkeley in 2004. He worked as a landscape听designer and planner in New York and Paris for five years, before听embarking on a specialized masters in the conservation of听historic landscapes at the National Architecture School of听Versailles (脡NSA-Versailles) in 2009. In 2010 he began his听doctoral research in history and cultural geography at the听University of London -- Queen Mary, under the direction of Colin听Jones and Miles Ogborn. Wick's doctoral research looks at political听and ideological expressions in pre-Revolutionary French听aristocratic landscape gardens. He wrote and illustrated a book听that reconstitutes the eighteenth century gardens of the La听Rochefoucauld family at the ch芒teau of La Roche-Guyon. He has听also published articles on eighteenth century gardens and听political culture in a number of scholarly journals and lectures听on landscape history.

听In addition to completing his doctoral work, he is currently听preparing an expanded English edition of his work on La听Roche-Guyon, and preparing essays for a collaborative publication听on the gardens of the duc de Noailles at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.



Education/Degrees

  • PhD, University of London - Queen Mary (in progress, anticipated听date of completion: June 2015)
  • Master 2, Ecole Nationale Sup茅rieure d'Architecture -Versailles, 2009
  • MLA, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, 2004
  • BA, Gallatin Schoo, NYU, 2000