Forster Ndubisi, head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M, has been named for the second consecutive year to a select list of 25 of the nation's top educators.
He's one of DesignIntelligence's Most Admired Educators of 2010, an annual list selected by the newsletter's staff as examples of excellence in design leadership. The staff compiles the list with input from hundreds of design professionals, academic department heads and students.
Ndubisi has headed the LAUP department since 2004. In addition to authoring numerous articles, papers and book chapters, he’s written three books, one of which received the Certificate of Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Washington chapter.
He specializes in ecological design and planning, community design, growth management and interdisciplinary design education.
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Other Texas A&M College of Architecture professors cited as "most admired" in past issues of the DesignIntelligence report are Michael Murphy, professor of landscape architecture, who made the list in 2009 and 2008, and J. Thomas Regan, professor of architecture and former dean of the college, who made the list in 2008.
- Posted: Jan. 02, 2009 -
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