Forster Ndubisi

Professor and Department Head
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Location : A 310 • Phone: (979) 845-1019
fndubisi@archmail.tamu.edu
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Dr. Forster Ndubisi is a professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A & M University since July, 2004. Prior to that, he was a professor of landscape architecture and city planning and director of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at Washington State University, Spokane for 7 years. He holds degrees in zoology with minor in ecology, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning. He has served as a consultant in community design, land design and planning, ecological planning, and growth management to numerous communities in Canada, Georgia, and Washington State.

Dr. Ndubisi has received numerous awards, including the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Merit Award in research (1988) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) President’s Award for Contribution to Education in Landscape Architecture (1993). He was a co-recipient of the Georgia ASLA President’s Award for Excellence in Professional Achievement (1994). His research on approaches to ecological planning won the only ASLA’s Honor Award for Research in 1999. Dr. Ndubisi is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, as well as the books Public Policy and Land Use in Georgia: A Reference Book (1996) and Planning Implementation Tools and Techniques: A Resource Book (1992). A former president of CELA, he recently served on the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Board...[more]