Sullivan moves from career as an attorney
to a landscape architecture faculty position

In a career that's involved law, landscape architecture and education, Larry Sullivan, a Texas A&M former student, has returned to what he calls his "true love," joining the faculty at Texas Tech University as an assistant professor of landscape architecture.

“Though I had established myself in the legal community, I found myself drawn away from trial practice to my true love — designing functional and aesthetically pleasing public spaces — and helping others to come together around a better vision for the future of a place,” he said.

Sullivan, who earned a Master of Landscape Architecture at Texas A&M in 1994, began teaching at Tech in the fall 2009 semester.

In addition to a 16-year career as an attorney, Sullivan taught construction contract law at Texas A&M and served as a professor at East Kazakhstan State Technical University in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.

Sullivan’s interests revolve around the aesthetic enhancement of public transportation projects, public art, community-based design and dispute resolution programs.

He has extensive professional design experience in projects as diverse as developing landscape plans for athletic facilities, subdivision and commercial common areas and streetscapes, and urban parks and roadways. In the past he has specialized in bridge and roadway aesthetics projects for state and federal highway corridors and a major greenway reclamation project along the Delaware River.

- Posted: Mar. 24, 2010-