Annemarie Bucher (Dr. sc. ETH, lic. phil. I) is a Swiss art and landscape historian who works in the field of arts, landscape studies, landscape history, and transdisciplinarity. She studied art history, ethnology, and philosophy at Zürich University and landscape architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH-Z). She has also been a research fellow at Harvard University. She is currently working as a senior lecturer at ETH-Z (Landscape Theory and History for the Master of Science in Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture). Until January 2026, she was a senior lecturer and researcher at Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She is also a freelance researcher, curator, and co-director of FOA-FLUX, a transdisciplinary research project on the functions of art in a global context (founded in 2009 together with Dominique Lämmli). She is the author of several books and articles on art, cultural theory, and landscape theory, and she has curated several exhibitions.
Annemarie Bucher teaches Landscape Theory and History at ETH Zürich. Here, she shares insights on critical reading of landscapes and new approaches to landscape historiography.
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