Landscape Architecture Faculty Member Appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio State
February 27, 2008
C. Timothy Baird, associate professor of landscape architecture, has been appointed the Richard W. Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture for the 2008 winter quarter. The position is named for the late Richard W. Trott, a Columbus-based architect and former professor of architecture at Ohio State. In addition to participating in a landscape architecture graduate seminar and design reviews, Baird’s responsibilities at Ohio State include co-teaching a senior design studio and a senior lecture course. The lecture course will focus on landscape systems and materiality and will include material research and operations exercises that will be closely integrated into the studio. The overarching goal of these joint courses is to move beyond the art versus technique approach to design to one that becomes a singular connective act uniting the artistic manipulation of materials and site systems with the technical expertise to produce built landscapes.
A native of Alabama, Baird received his B.L.A. and M.L.A. from Louisiana State University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. On the faculty at Penn State since 2000, he teaches design, implementation, and the history of landscape architecture beyond Modernism. His research focuses on environmental art as land reclamation, and sustainable designed landscape form, and the memorial landscape.
Contact: Flora W. Marynak, fwm1@psu.edu