Dr. Wolfram Hoefer joined the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey as an Assistant Professor in 2006.
In 1992 he earned a Diploma in Landscape Architecture from the Technische Universität Berlin and received a doctoral degree from Technische Universat Muchen in 2000. He is a licensed landscape architect in the state of Bavaria, Germany. He is international coordinator for the department, works with universities in his native Germany to provide study abroad opportunities for students and to pursue research in his field. As founding member of the Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES) he helps to generate solutions to pressing urban environmental problems in New Jersey.
Wolfram Hoefer
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Landscape Architecture
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Key topics
Adaptive re-use of brownfields as potential elements of the public realm; community outreach in New Jersey (CUES); cultural interpretations of landscapes; cross cultural comparison of brownfield design in North America and Europe; design theory of landscape architecture