Douglas C. Allen, ASLA

Professor and Senior Associate Dean
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Teaching Area

• Landscape Architecture, Urban Design.

Education

• MLA, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1976;
• BLA, School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, 1971.

Teaching and Administrative Experience

• Senior Associate Dean, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-present.
• Interim Dean, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-2008.
• Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989-present.
• Associate Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982-1989.
• Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, 1987-88.
• Assistant Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1977-1982.

Memberships

• American Society of Landscape Architects

Academic and Professional Honors

ACADEMIC:

• Distinguished Professor, College of Architecture, 1995-96;
• Mid-Career Achievement, College of Architecture, 1994-95;
• Conservation Medal, New England Chapter, Victorian Society of America, for Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Changing of Landscape, 1981.
• ASLA Certificate of Honor for Excellence in the Study of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, 1976

SERVICE:

• Governor’s Award, Historic Preservation Stewardship, 2008
• ANAK Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
• AIA Special Recognition for Commitment to Education, 2004

PROFESSIONAL:

Member of Project Team on Following Awards:

• AIA (Georgia Chapter) Design Award, The Lumberyard Lofts, Brock + Green, Architects, 2001
• Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award, The Lumberyard Lofts, Brock + Green, Architects, 2000
• Urban Land Institute Award of Excellence, Studioplex, with Brock + Green, Architects, 2000
• AIA (Georgia Chapter) Design Award, Studioplex, with Brock + Green, Architects, 2000
• Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award, Studioplex, with Brock + Green, Architects, 1999
• AIA (Southeast Region) Design Award, Dash Residence, with Lane M. Duncan and Michael Gamble, Architects, 1996
• AIA (National) Honor Award, Clayton Headquarters Library, Scogin, Elam, and Bray, Architects. 1988
• Design Award, Progressive Architecture, WQXI Radio Station, Scogin, Elam, and Bray, Architects. 1987 (unbuilt)
• Industry Choice Award, Dorey Publishing Co. for Embassy Row Office Park, 1984
• Builder's Choice Award, Builder Magazine, for Piedmont Arbors Condominiums, 1984
• Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award, Piedmont Arbors Condominiums, 1984

Publications (Selected)

BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS:

• Douglas C. Allen, The Plan of Savannah, in The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Oxford University Press, New York. (forthcoming)
• Douglas C. Allen, J. B. Jackson, in The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Oxford University Press, New York. (forthcoming)
• Douglas C. Allen and Robert M. Craig (2000), "Parks and Landscape Architecture", in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
• Steven Cantor, Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture, Van Nostrand and Reinhold, New York, 1996 pp.185-190.
• "The Tanner Fountain", in Linda Jewell (ed.), Peter Walker: Experiments in Gesture, Seriality, and Flatness, Rizzoli, New York, 1990.
• Alan Emmett, Douglas C. Allen, et al, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Changing of a Landscape, Cambridge, 1979;

ARTICLES and PAPERS:

• Douglas Allen, “Memory and Place: Two Case Studies”, in Places Journal: 21:1  May 2009
• Douglas C. Allen, “The Alexander-Pound House”, in The Oxford American, No. 60, 2008.
• Douglas C. Allen,  “The Code of the City: Window into aLabyrinth”, in Places Journal: 19:2,  May 2007
• J. Peponis, D. Allen, D. Haynie, M. Scoppa, “The Spatial Profile of Urban Areas in Twelve Metropolitan Urban Regions in The United States”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Space-Syntax Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
• J. Peponis, D. Allen, S. French, M. Scoppa, J. Brown, “Street Connectivity and the Measure of Urban Density”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Space-Syntax Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
• Mohammad Gharipour and Douglas C. Allen, “The Achaemenid Contribution to the History of Garden  Design.” The Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies, Vol. 4,Iissue 2,  New York, Fall 2006.
• Douglas C. Allen, “Permanence and Change in Urban Form and Structure”, in Urban Permanence, Vol. 1, BIACF, Busan, Korea, 2005.

INVITED LECTURES :

• “Permanence and Change in Urban Structure and Form”, Busan International Architecture Symposium, Busan Korea, 2005
• “Olmsted in the South”, Southern Garden History Society. 2003
• “The Park, The Parkway, and the Suburb”, National Association of Olmsted Parks Annual Meeting. 2001
• "Authority, Nature, and the Birth of Landscape", Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture, 2000
• "Between Figure and Ground", Southern College of Technology. 1996
• "Between Figure and Ground", University of Texas at Austin. 1995
• "Public Pipes", Temple University. 1994
• "The Significance of Dimension in the Plan of Savannah", Tuskegee University. 1992
• "Authority, Nature, and the Birth of Landscape", Catholic University of America. 1992
• "Three Landscapes", College of Design, Iowa State University. 1992
• “Order and Free-Will in the American Landscape", Keynote Address, ACSA Southwest Regional Conference, Rice University. 1990
• "The Park, the Town, and the Political Landscape", Catholic University of America, 1990
• "The Plan of Savannah: Architecture of the Political Frame," AIA National Committee on Design, Annual Conference 1990.
• "Notes on Grass", Catholic University of America. 1988.
• "Agora to Arcadia", Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1987
• “The Grid: Europe and America", AIAS Annual Conference: Arizona State University, 1987
• "The Park, the Parkway, and the Town: the Decline of the Political Landscape," Atlanta Historical Society, Current Historians Series. 1984
• "Medieval Planning and The American Townscape," The Legacy of Medieval Monasticism” Lecture Series, Emory University. 1984
• "Spatial Data Base for Parks and Recreation Planning," National League of Cities Conference, San Antonio, Texas. (with H. Randal Roark) 1979
• "The Search for Paradise: Changing Views of Nature in the Landscape Garden," Southeastern Association of Collegiate Art Historians, Atlanta, 1979

Service

COMPETITION AND AWARDS JURIES

• Jury Member, Colorado Chapter AIA Awards, 2008.
• Jury Member, AID Housing, International Design Competition, Haeyundae, Republic of Korea, 2006
• Jury Member, Northern Virginia Chapter AIA Awards, 2006
• Jury Member, Atlanta Regional Commission Awards of Excellence, 2001
• Jury Member, Indiana Chapter AIA Awards, 1998

ACADEMIC JURIES

• Visiting Critic, (Thesis Reviews) University of Michigan, 1999
• Visiting Critic, (Thesis Reviews) University of Virginia, 1998
• Visiting Critic, (Thesis Reviews) Harvard University, 1993
• Visiting Critic, Catholic University of America, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992
• Visiting Critic (Thesis Reviews) Arizona State University, 1988

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC

• Design Review Board, University of Arkansas, 2004- 2008
• Mayor’s Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Resource Panel, 2003, 2002,1999,1998,1997.
• Board member, Olmsted Linear Parks Association, 2003-2004
• Board member, Southeast Atlanta YMCA, 1996-2000
• Board member, Midtown Business Association, 1983-86
• Secretary, Georgia Chapter ASLA, 1980-82
• Atlanta Urban Design Commission, 1977-80

ACADEMIC

• Executive Board, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000-2003
• Thirty-four Institute and College Committees

Registration

• Registered Landscape Architect, Georgia #620

Professional Experience

• Douglas C. Allen, ASLA, Landscape Architect, Private Practice, Atlanta, Ga.
  1982-present.
  Fifteen commercial and institutional projects, 8 awards; Ten multi-family housing projects, 2 awards; Seven residential garden designs, 1 award; One Campus Master Plan; Six public park designs; Four recreation master plans; One statewide comprehensive plan; Five environmental impact assessments.
• Principal, ERLA Associates, Urban and Regional Planners, Atlanta, Ga. 1979-1982.