John Motloch PhD, ASLA, AIA LEED^TM Accredited Professional is Professor and Past Chair of Landscape Architecture, and Director of the Land Design Institute at Ball State University.  He holds professional licenses in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design.  Dr. Motloch directs the Sustainability For The Americas program at Ball State including its two FIPSE-funded consortia:  The US-Brazil Sustainability Consortium and the North American Sustainability, Housing and Community Consortium.  He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin, Texas. Dr. Motloch is a member of the newly-formed Indiana BioTown Task Force that is planning the conversion of Reynolds, Indiana into the nation’s first town to be powered by 100% biorenewable energy.

Dr. Motloch has a BArch (University of Texas, 1970), Master of Landscape Architecture (University of Pennsylvania, 1978), and Phd in Landscape Architecture (University of Pretoria, 1992; “Delivery Models for Urbanization in an Emerging South Africa”).  He authored Introduction to Landscape Design (VNR, 1990; 2^nd ed. Wiley, 2000, Translation to Chinese in progress) and co-authored Site Reconnaissance and Engineering. Introduction for Architects, Landscape Architects and Planners, (Elsevier 1991). He has several book contributions.