Gabriel Wick

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

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