Honorary Members of the ISCCL are elected to this position on the basis of their service to the International Scientific Committee and their extraordinary contributions to the field of cultural landscapes.  Honorary Members are elected for life, and may use the title, “Honorary Member, ISCCL.”  While Honorary Members have no voting rights, they may continue to participate in all of the activities of the Committee.

Founding Honorary Members

France (ICOMOS)
1971 – ?

Born September 13, 1914, Cherves-Richemont (Charente), and died April 05, 1999, in Trouvérac (Charente), France.

Jean Feray was a French art Historian, specializing in architecture and decoration from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.  He was the Honorary Inspector of Historic Monuments from 1955 to 1982, and Professor at the ‘Centre de conservation des monuments anciens’. During this time, as an ICOMOS member he joined the fledgling Committee of Historic Gardens and Sites and was one of its first members.

Jean Feray’s archives are kept at the ‘Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art’ (INHA).

Main publications:

  • Feray, J. (1959) The tomb of Saint-Remi and its problems, Les monuments historiques de la France, n°1
  • Feray, F. (1977) The Palais du Tau, former archbishop’s palace and treasury of Reims Cathedral, Paris: CNMHS
  • Feray, J. (1971) The Fardoil Astronomical Clock from the Paris Observatory, Les monuments historiques de la France, n°4.
  • Feray J., (1979) Saint-Denis: the abbey treasure, Les monuments historiques de la France, n° 104.
  • Feray J., (1988) Interior architecture and decoration in France, from the origins to 1875, Paris: Berger-Levrault-CNMHS, 399 p. (Reprinted 1997).

Sources:

  • http://data.bnf.fr/11902542/jean_feray/
  • https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11902542/jean_feray/
  • https://everybodywiki.com/Jean_Feray

Belgium (IFLA)
1971 – ?

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Germany
1971 – ?

Born 1907, Pappenheim, Germany, died January 25, 1996.

A landscape architect and editor-in-chief of the magazine “Garden and Landscape,” Gerda Gollwitzer taught the History of Garden Art from 1945 to 1956. But she was also a future thinker, writing in her last book on trees that “… humanity will have to pay the price …if it does not …rebuild a careful partnership between man and nature….”

Current Honorary Members

Australia
Elected 2019

Dr Steve Brown is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra, Australia. His research interests span everyday heritage, World Heritage, cultural landscapes, place-attachment, heritage studies, queer heritage, and archaeologies of the recent past and contemporary world. Steve is the lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice (2023) and a member of the editorial advisory board for Australian Archaeology. He is a keen and gay gardener.

USA
Elected 2021

Nancy Pollock-Ellwand PhD serves as the Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. She is degreed across the fields of landscape architecture, architecture and planning. She is also a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. With a background in cultural landscape practice and scholarship, Pollock-Ellwand’s research focuses on the history of landscapes, manifest in heritage conservation, urban reform, and environmental design. As such she has been involved with ICOMOS, across several roles including Co-Chairing and participating in several the World Heritage evaluation panel; serving on advisory missions; and providing input on international policy for cultural landscape protection. At present she serves as a Scientific Officer of ICOMOS’ Advisory Committee (AdCom).

Australia
Elected 2022

Stuart Read is a specialist in landscape and garden history with a passion for design and plants. He has over 30 years’ private and government experience in forests, biodiversity, planning and design.
His focus is identifying, conserving and managing heritage. Stuart advises the Heritage Council of NSW on nominations for State Heritage Register listings. And gives lectures and talks.
Stuart contributed to the Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (OUP & AGHS, 2002), the National Trust of Australia (NSW) book Interwar Gardens … (2003) and an overseas fellowship report, Spanish lessons for Australian Gardens… (ISSI, 2005). He contributed a chapter on riverine gardens to Gardens of History & Imagination: Growing NSW (SUP, 2016) and writes for Garden Drum & Australian Garden History.
Stuart has served 2 branches and the national committee of the Australian Garden History Society. Including sharing its first co-chair-ship with Bronwyn Blake, 2019-22. He has led garden tours of Spanish Gardens (2010), New Zealand gardens (2019) and many Australian garden tours.