Douglas Allen, ASLA is Professor and Interim Dean in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. He is a landscape architect with over thirty years of experience in the design and planning of commercial, residential, and institutional projects for both public and private sector clients. His projects include Veterans Memorial Park (with W. Jude LeBlanc) in Smyrna, GA. (2000-2002); StudioPlex, a mixed use development in Atlanta (1999-2000); The Augusta Riverfront Center Project (Augusta, GA. 1990-1992); Korean War Memorial (Baltimore, Maryland, 1987); and the development of a master plan for the University of Bir Zeit (West Bank, Israel, 1983). His work includes several award winning projects, including the Dash Residence (Atlanta, GA. 1996); Piedmont Arbors Condominiums (Atlanta, GA. 1986); and the Perdue Garden (Atlanta, GA. 1983). The Perdue Garden was featured in the book, Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture; by Steven Cantor (Van Nostrand and Reinhold, New York, 1997). Other design work has appeared in Progressive Architecture, Builder Magazine, and House and Garden. He co-authored the book, Cambridge Massachusetts: the Changing of a Landscape (Harvard University Press, 1979) which won the Conservation Medal from the Victorian Society in America in 1980. He has also published "The Code of the City: Window into a Labyrinth", in Places Journal 19.2 (2007); "The Park and the Skyline: Monument and Anti-Monument in the Modern City", The Conservation of Urban Parks and Squares, ICOMOS, Montreal, 1993; and "The Tanner Fountain", in Peter Walker: Experiments in Gesture, Seriality, and Flatness (Rizzoli, New York 1991). He has lectured and served as a visiting critic at Arizona State University, The Catholic University of America, Harvard University, Iowa State University, The University of Michigan, Temple University, The University of Texas (Austin), Tuskegee University, Rice University, and the University of Virginia. In 1987-88 he was Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University.