Dorothée Imbert is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, where she teaches the design core studios Planning and Design of Landscapes and Landscape Architecture Design. Her seminars include Designing Women, Landscape and/in the City: The Case of Switzerland, and Modernity and European Landscape Architecture. Imbert organized the exhibition and international symposium "Constructing the Swiss Landscape," which took place at the GSD in December 2006-January 2007.

Her research centers on modernism. Her publications include the books Landscape Modernism and Jean Canneel-Claes—Between the Garden and the City (University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming), The Modernist Garden in France (Yale University Press, 1993), and Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living (University of California Press, 1996, 2005), as well as numerous essays and articles. She is currently carrying out research for books on Swiss landscape architecture and on the California mid-century modernist Geraldine Knight Scott.

Imbert received her architect’s diploma in Paris, and both an MArch and MLA from the University of California at Berkeley. She practiced landscape architecture at Peter Walker and Partners from 1996 until 1999, and continues to pursue design projects.