{"id":11174,"date":"2022-03-07T08:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:55:53","slug":"ndubisi-remembered-as-leading-landscape-architecture-researcher-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/07\/ndubisi-remembered-as-leading-landscape-architecture-researcher-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"Ndubisi remembered as leading landscape architecture researcher, educator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Forster Ndubisi, widely lauded as a transformative leader in landscape architecture research and education who served as a department head at the Texas A&amp;M College of Architecture from 2004\u20132016, passed away March 4, 2022, after a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His survivors include his wife, June Martin, a Texas A&amp;M associate instructional professor of urban planning. Information about funeral services was not immediately available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forster Ndubisi 1955 - 2022\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7N6VGKfOuKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNdubisi is a permanent icon in the field of landscape architecture,\u201d said Galen Newman, interim head of the Texas A&amp;M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was a pioneer of ecological design and theoretical thinking, an irreplaceable, unique, knowledgeable, deep thinker who was loved by many. He was a wonderful mentor, teacher, colleague, friend \u2014 a great man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi\u2019s numerous awards and honors include his designation as a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects\u2019 Council of Fellows, which recognizes exceptional leadership, knowledge and service in the field for a sustained period of time. Fellowship is one of the highest honors the ASLA bestows on its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a department head, Ndubisi\u2019s leadership and hires transformed LAUP into to the most research-productive department in the college and perhaps the most prolific landscape architecture program in the world, said Shannon Van Zandt, executive associate dean of the Texas A&amp;M College of Architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi also served as a departmental professor, who led an ecological planning and design seminar for graduate students, supervised masters\u2019 theses and doctoral dissertation development, and served on graduate student committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was an extraordinarily effective administrator who garnered resources during times of budgetary restrictions and innovated new revenue sources for the department, said Van Zandt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe leaves a legacy within landscape architecture of evidence-based design centered around ecological principles,\u201d she said. \u201cHe also leaves a legacy at Texas A&amp;M of inspired leadership and extraordinarily effective administration, along with a joyful spirit and sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi also helped change many lives through his mentoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe saw an individual\u2019s potential, and through his mentoring, helped them fulfill that potential,\u201d said Newman. \u201cHe was a superbly wise person who was always willing to share his wisdom with others.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe left a lasting impact on many people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi also had a far-reaching, lasting legacy in landscape architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile he was renowned for his ability to decipher and synthesize historical patterns and research findings, Ndubisi also pioneered novel and impactful research agendas,\u201d said Newman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi helped lead the movement to better quantify landscape performance, a measure of how effectively landscape design solutions fulfill their intended purpose and contribute to sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This concept, said Newman, has significantly advanced the ability of landscape architects to both determine and publicize the positive benefits and impacts of design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi\u2019s published research is required reading in the field, said Newman. \u201cHis 2003 book, \u2018Ecological Planning: a Historical and Comparative Synthesis,\u2019 has become a staple for all landscape architecture students and faculty interested in the philosophies behind and major contributors to ecological thinking,\u201d he said. \u201cMuch of his research is required class reading.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi also edited \u201cThe Ecological Design and Planning Reader,\u201d a 2014 collection of scholarly works spanning 150 years, from Henry David Thoreau\u2019s \u201cWalden 1854\u201d to an investigation of ecological planning in The Woodlands, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe collection provides students, scholars, researchers and practitioners with a solid foundation for understanding the relationship between human systems and the natural environment,\u201d states the book\u2019s publisher, Island Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He advocated for a balance of human activity with ecological concerns \u2014 place-based ecological urbanism \u2014 for a future of sustainable, resilient, and beautiful places in his book \u201cEcology in Urban Design and Planning: The Evolution of an Idea,\u201d published in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ndubisi earned a Ph.D. in Regional Planning &amp; Resource Development at the University of Waterloo in 1987, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph in 1982 and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology\/Ecology at the University of Ibadan in 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forster Ndubisi, widely lauded as a transformative leader in landscape architecture research and education who served as a department head at the Texas 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