Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is the profession providing landscape planning, design, and management services to enhance and protect natural and built environments. Landscape architecture as a discipline is devoted to understanding and managing the human and environmental forces that change the landscape. Landscape architects plan and design places for the health, safety, and welfare of citizens through systematic decision-making that integrates science, art, and technology. Individual and community quality of life are enhanced by a design process to improve, protect, and create ecologically sustainable, socially equitable, and economically feasible landscapes. Landscape architects work in urban, suburban and wilderness environments. Our graduates have gained distinction for projects as varied in scale as private gardens, residential communities, urban plazas, college campuses, park facilities and regional conservation plans.

The Bachelor in Landscape Architecture (BLA) program is nationally accredited as a professional degree program. The mission of the program is to prepare students to become professional landscape architects in private and public sector practice. Our educational goal is to produce graduates motivated to be leaders in the field and professionals who are intellectually active, broadly-educated citizens and life-long learners.

Urban and Regional Planning

The Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning degree program emphasizes the social, economic, cultural and natural factors that govern how communities and society are shaped. Coursework provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to develop solutions to community and regional growth and development issues that face our state and nation. Students have an opportunity to specialize in specific aspects of community and regional planning and development issues along with internship and service-learning experiences locally, nationally, and/or internationally.

Abuabara, Alexander, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2022

Brown, Robert D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Guelph, 1985

Clark, Jonathan, Associate Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
JD, Southern Methodist University School of Law, 1995

Cooper, John T, Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Davis, Deidra D, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2017

Dixit, Madhavi Manish M, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2021

Dvorak, Bruce D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MLA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994

Early, Tim, Associate Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Texas A&M University, 1991

Fulton, Bill, Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985

Garcia, Ivis, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015

Giusti, Cecilia Hundskopf, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001

Golbabai, Justin, Associate Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
BA, University of Notre Dame, 2004

Huang, Chang S, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 1995

Hurst, Kenneth R, Assistant Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2016

Lee, Chanam, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Washington, 2004

Lee, Sungmin, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2018

Leverett, Dan, Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MBA, Texas A&M University, 1988

Li, Dongying, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Illinois - Champaign, 2016

Li, Wei, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California at Irvine, 2011

Malecha, Matthew L, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019

Martin, June C, Instructional Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, University of Georgia, 2002
MPA, University of Georgia, 1991

McNair, Michael, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Kansas State University, 2023

Meyer, Michelle Annette, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Colorado State University, 2013

Nam, Ji Won, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2023

Newman, Galen D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Clemson University, 2010

Newton, Karah F, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
BA, University of Buffalo - The State University of New York, 2000
MPA, New York University Wagner, 2014

Noh, Youngre, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2015

Peacock, Walter Gillis, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Georgia, 1986

Peng, Jingxi, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MLA, Texas A&M University, 2022

Reid, Russell W, Instructional Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MAR, Texas A&M University, 2001

Ren, Dingding, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MLA, Texas A&M University, 2018

Rogers, George O, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Pittsburgh, 1983

Rosenheim, Nathanael Proctor, Research Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2015

Sanchez, Thomas, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996

Scott, Bentley Nelson, Assistant Professor of the Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Texas A&M University, 2015

Song, Yang, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Clemson University, 2017

Van Zandt, Shannon S, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Varni, James Walter, Research Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

Woodfin, Thomas M, Executive Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2007

Wu, Chia-Ching, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, National Taiwan University, 2017

Wunneburger, Douglas F, Instructional Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1992

Xu, Boqian, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 2023

Ye, Xinyue, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2010

Yu, Siyu, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019

Zhong, Sinan, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2020