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.

Beasley, John, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Texas A&M University, 2015

Brown, Robert D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Guelph, 1985
MLA, University of Guelph, 1982

Calvesbert, Tyrene, Visiting Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MUP, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 2019

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

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

Dixit, Madhavi Manish, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2021
MLA, School of Planning & Architecture New Delhi, India, 1997

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

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

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

Garcia, Ivis, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning

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

Goddard, Tara B, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Portland State University, 2017

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
MLA, University of Oklahoma, 1988

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

Lee, Sungmin, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2018
MLA, Seoul National University, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

Newman, Galen D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Clemson University, 2010
MLA, Auburn University, 2006

Newton, Karah F, Assistant 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

Pap, Margit, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2021

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

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

Rising, Hope Hui, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Oregon, 2015
MLA, University of Michigan, 2000

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

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

Rumbach, Andrew, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Cornell University, 2011

Scott, Bentley Nelson, Visiting Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Texas A&M University, 2015

Song, Yang, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Clemson University, 2017
MLA, Clemson University, 2013

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

Wen, Hui, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Cornell University, 2019

Winslow, Jane Futrell, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
MLA, Kansas State University, 2010

Winslow, William Palmer, Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MLA, University of Michigan, 1982

Woodfin, Thomas, Executive Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2007
MLA, Harvard University, 1981

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

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

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