Harlow Landphair, ASLA, a retired professor of landscape architecture at Texas A&M University’s College of Architecture, is among 20 members of the American Society of Landscape Architects selected for induction to the society’s Council of Fellows.
Members of the ASLA Council of Fellows are recognized for their extraordinary work, leadership, knowledge, and service to the profession over a sustained period of time. The Fellows-elect will be formally inducted into the council October 4, 2008, during the ASLA’s annual meeting in Philadelphia.
Landphair was nominated by the Texas ASLA chapter for advancing the profession’s knowledge of construction technology and stormwater quality and management through his nearly three decades of teaching, writing, and research.
During his academic career at Mississippi State University and Texas A&M, Landphair was an advocate of expanding and communicating the technology knowledge base of landscape architecture practice.
He came to Texas A&M in 1974 as an associate professor, later earning a Ph.D. in environmental design from Texas A&M.
In studying for the Ph.D., he focused on the technical aspects of design practice, and wrote “Landscape Architecture Construction” with the late Fred Klatt, a professor of landscape architecture at Texas A&M.
Now in its third edition, the book is a standard text in the field in both the United States and abroad. In the last quarter century, every graduate of Texas A&M’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning has learned construction from Harlow’s textbook.
Harlow’s infusion of strong construction technology into the curriculum has been one of the cornerstones of Texas A&M’s landscape architecture program. Technology was phased into the curriculum to provide students with the skill and theory to address the increasingly complex design requirements at successive stages throughout the design studio sequence.
His efforts also included the development of a nationally recognized laboratory facility, testing protocols for erosion prevention and sedimentation control products as well as work on related manuals and training materials for several state transportation departments.
He earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Florida in 1963, a Master of Extension Education in Agronomy from Mississippi State University in 1974, and his doctorate from Texas A&M in 1977.
Founded in 1899, ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing more than 18,200 members in 48 professional chapters and 68 student chapters.
The society's mission is to lead, educate, and participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.
