Bianca Maria Rinaldi is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Politecnico di Torino. She has held teaching positions at the University of Camerino, Italy, at the University of Technology in Graz, at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, and visiting positions at the National University of Singapore and at the Leibniz University Hanover.

Bianca’s work has been supported with fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, and the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation.

Her research interests revolve around four main topics: cross-cultural interactions in landscape architecture history and, particularly, the role of China in the evolution of Western garden art in the 17th-19th century; twentieth-century landscape architecture and transnational histories, with a focus on the Global South; the relationship between history and contemporary landscape architecture; urban natures and urban transformations. On these topics, she published and lectured widely. In 2012, her book The Chinese Garden: Garden Types for Contemporary Landscape Architecture (2011) was awarded a J.B. Jackson Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Bianca serves as a member of the editorial board of JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture , as a member of the Advisory Board of the Society of Architecture Historians Landscape Chapter, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture of the Leibniz University of Hanover, and a member of the Executive Committee of ECLAS – the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools. For her global knowledge of landscape architecture, she was selected as a nominator for the first three editions of the biennial Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize .