Administration

Douglas C. Allen, ASLA
Professor and Interim Dean

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

• Associate Dean, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology 2002-present;
• 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

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:

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

ARTICLES and PAPERS:

• Arthur C. Nelson, Douglas C. Allen, and Richard Dagenhart, "Subdivision and Urban Form,” The Brookings Institution, Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Washington, D.C, (forthcoming)
• "The Park and the Skyline: Monument and Anti-Monument in the Modern City", in The Conservation of Urban Parks and Squares, ICOMOS, Montreal, 1993;
• "The Persistence of Classicism in the Eighteenth Century American Landscape," Thirtieth Annual Conference, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, (Refereed Proceedings) 1987
• "Spatial Data Base for Parks and Recreation Planning: A Modeling Approach," Conference on Computers in Recreation and Parks, St. Louis, Missouri. (with H. Randal Roark), 1980.
• Douglas Allen and Randal Roark, "Spatial Data Analysis and Recreation Planning: The Atlanta Prototype", Proceedings of National Workshop on Computers in Recreation and Parks, NRPA, Arlington, Virginia , l98l.
• Douglas Allen and James M. Akridge, "Case Study of Project Planning and Design for Energy Conservation at Greenbriar, Chesapeake, Virginia" in Site and Neighborhood Design for Energy Conservation: Five Case Studies, Argonne National Laboratories, Washington, D.C., 1979.

INVITED LECTURES :

• “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, Atlanta Regional Commission Awards of Excellence, 2001
• Jury Member, Indiana Chapter AIA Awards, 1998
• Jury Member, Alabama Chapter AIA Awards, 1996
• Jury Member, Tennessee Chapter AIA Awards, 1995
• Jury Member, Mississippi Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Competition, 1991
• Jury Member, Alabama Chapter ASLA Awards, 1990

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-
• 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.
  (Fourteen commercial and institutional projects, 5 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.