Daniel Joseph Nadenicek

Member since: 2017

Proposed by: Peachtree Garden Club, Zone VIII

Dean of Environment and Design and the Draper chair in Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia, Daniel Nadenicek has dedicated his 25-year long career to research, writing, and teaching landscape architectural history, its practice and its theory. His work includes over 60 peer-reviewed presentations at conferences and institutions globally; in addition, he has published more than 50 articles and book chapters in scholarly publications. Of these, notable works include Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Journal, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series, Journal of the New England Garden Society, and Pioneers of American Landscape Design. He also serves as editor of the Library of American Landscape History book series, Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design, and co-founder of Landscape Journal. He has held previous positions at the University of Minnesota, Penn State University, and Clemson University where Dean Nadenicek was professor and chair as well as the director of health communities and historic preservation for Clemson's Restoration Institute. At the University of Georgia, he is involved with the Strategic Planning Committee, UGS Senior Administrators Committee, the Planning Committee for the 10th Annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference and the Wormsloe Science Advisory Committee. He has also been instrumental in managing the Founders Memorial Garden adjacent to the College of Environment and Design which commemorates the twelve founders of the American garden club movement. Of the many organizations in which he has participated, he is presently the president and member of the Board of Directors, Library of American Landscape History (Amherst, MA); Executive Council Member, Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (Madison , WI); Board of Directors Member, Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center (Buford, GA); Advisory Council member, UGA Press, Board of Advisors member, Southern Highlands Reserve (Lake Toxaway, NC); and member of the Board of Trustees, Wormsloe Institute of Environmental History. Dean Nadenicek has received numerous awards which over the last decade include the South Carolina American Planning Association Award, "Greenville, SC Master Planning"; the Outstanding Administrator Award, CELA; Fellow of Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA); and one of the Top 25 Most Influential Design Educators, Design Intelligence. His many projects reach far beyond the University of Georgia; he has been instrumental in the development of UGA's Cultural Landscape Laboratory which has worked on nine preservation projects in five states including Wormsloe (SC), the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park forest (VT), Presidio Historic Forest (CA), the Pickens Courthouse and Reedy River Clean-up (SC), and the Bloedel Reserve (WA). Since 2010, following a conference in which Richard Louv spoke about Nature Deficit Disorder in children, Dean Nadenicek has been studying children's awareness of beauty in nature and its impact on designed landscapes for children.

Honorary Member since 2017.