Professor Peter Latz earned his diploma (MA) at the Technical University of Munich in 1964 -1968. He pursued postgraduate studies at the Institute of Town Planning at the RWTH Aachen and collaborated with the office Prof. Kühn-Meurer on town planning projects. He has been an independent landscape architect and town planner in partnership since 1968, working groups with architects, sociologists and economists for town planning and in the field of alternative technologies.

Professor Latz lectured at the Academy of Architecture in Maastricht, Netherlands beginning in 1968 until 1973 when he accepted a professorship in landscape architecture in Kassel. Since then his research has focused on the relationships between new technologies, open space and architecture. He has held professorship in landscape architecture and planning at the Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan Since 1983, in addition to giving lectures and teaching internationally as adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a guest professor at Harvard University.