Professor of Landscape Architecture
Director, Land Design Institute

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, Thesis entitled "Delivery Models for Urbanization in the Emerging South Africa". 1991.

MLA, University of Pennsylvania, 1978

BArch, University of Texas at Austin, 1970

Ball State University, Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1996-present.

Texas A & M University, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1979-96.

Twenty plus years of teaching a range of courses including environmental systems, resource management, design, design communication, design implementation, water and energy efficient site planning, placemaking, research methods.

Past Associate Director: Texas A&M, Center for Urban Affairs; Associate Department Head; Director of Graduate Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Lectured internationally on resource management, sustainability, regenerative planning and design (South Africa, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Greece, etc.).

Taught architecture faculty, Instituto Tecnologicoy de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico).

Weekly guest lecturer for 1 year at University of Pretoria, South Africa; chairing University-level interdisciplinary discussion group on housing, urbanization and community-building.

Taught Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design students from Texas A&M University, at La Poggerina, Figline Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy, 1983 and 1987.

Professional Experience

Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Senior Research Fellow, 1994-96/

Chris Mulder Associates, South Africa, Jan-Jul, 1991.

Licensed in the State of Texas in the professions of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, and Interior Design.

PI, Co-PI or collaborator on 21 projects, totaling more than $500,000. Research in areas of 1) International studies and technology transfer, 2) Housing needs, assessment, self-help, community development, formal and informal housing, community facilitation, subdivision design and normalization, 3) Environmental management including site assessment studies for the State of Texas for locating the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), 4) Energy and water efficient planning and design, and bioclimatic design, 5) Developing computer-based methods for environmental research, 6) Transportation Corridor, River Corridor and Recreational Studies and 7) Sense of Place studies.

Areas of research/professional interest: resource management, sustainability and regeneration; facilitated planning and design in response to regional and local environmental and cultural resources, and socio-economic, technological, and policy environments; international activities, with sensitivity to regional and local operational environments.

Honors or Awards: 1) National Technologies Contest for Social Interest Housing, Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL), Mexico Fourth Award and Special Recognition for Protection and Conservation of the Environment 2) "Delivery Models for Sustainable Solutions," Citation, American Institute of Architects?i> "A Call for Sustainable Community Solutions" International competition. 1993, 3) ASLA, Merit Award for Research, 1992, 4) "South African Sojourn: Motloch Urbanization Models Target Change." Landscape Architect News Digest, March/April 1993.

Students in 1997 LA406 class won Third Place in El Portal Competition for the redesign of the US-Mexico border crossing at Laredo-Nuevo Laredo.

Introduction to Landscape Architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, NY, 1990; Second edition in publication, due August 2000..

Site Reconnaissance and Engineering, An Introduction for Architects, Landscape Architects and Planners. Elsevier Science Pub., New York, NY, 1983, 248 pp., 1983 (co-authored with Dr. H. C. Landphair)