Faculty and Staff
Faculty
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Nina Briggs is an educator and designer, and founding principal of THE FABRIC. Nina seeks to elevate and redefine design to positively affect inhabitants psychologically, while solving spatial problems.
Professor
Dr. Brown is a Professor of Landscape Architecture. He has previously served as Director of the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies and Interim Dean for the College of Environmental Design. He currently teaches in both the MLA and BSLA program.
Lecturer
Steve Rasmussen Cancian is a community-based participatory landscape architect (California RLA #6054). His firm, Shared Spaces, combines organizing, facilitation and design to enable residents and stakeholders to participate in every step of creating their own landscapes, so that they become â
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Steven Chavez is a licensed landscape architect and founding principal of SCA-LARC (Steven Chavez Associates - Landscape Architecture). Steven founded SCA-LARC in 2009 after working for Gustafson Guthrie Nichol.
Lecturer
Steven Chodoriwsky is a designer, artist, and educator. His research-based practice employs a diverse range of media including installation, text, performance, and audio-visual artifacts. Concurrent to Cal Poly, Chodoriwsky also teaches Interior Architecture at Woodbury University.
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As a designer, my work is informed by my background in art and sustainability. I obtained my BA from Berea College, where I studied Art and Sustainability & Environmental Studies.
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A specialist in digital fabrication and phenomenological design, Kevin Finch brings a unique view to the traditional pedagogy of landscape architecture.
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Majored in Forest Engineering (USC, Spain). In 2004 she moved to Madrid and completed her studies, earning a Master of Landscape Architecture (UPM, Spain).
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Claire is a writer, ecological designer, and community advocate. She works on climate-appropriate design, design for mental health and well-being, and promoting equitable access to humane urban environments and nature.
Associate Professor
BSLA Class of 2022 Academic Advisor
Barry Lehrman is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture is a landscape futurist, focused on visualizing the dynamic connections between water, energy, ecology, and culture.
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Cybele Lyle is a California-based visual artist whose installation, video, sculpture and 2D work reconstructs the architecture and natural environment around her into an alternate vision of interior and exterior space.
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Professor
Lee-Anne Milburn is a professor at California Polytechnic University Pomona (CalPoly Pomona). She is the past associate director of the School of Architecture, associate professor and program coordinator for the Landscape Architecture and Planning Program, and Acting Director of the Natural Energies and Advanced Technologies (NEAT) laboratory at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She was co-editor of "Low Impact Development: A Guidebook for North Carolina" for which she and her team won the 2010 Marvin Collins Outstanding Planning Award.
Associate Professor
Co-Director, California Center for Land and Water Stewardship
Susan Mulley has initiated several major new research projects in the field of coupled human and natural systems including projects on food security/urban agriculture, water conserving behavior and perceptions of low-water use landscapes, wildland-urban interface and rural-urban interface issues, social justice and the landscape of the Coachella Valley, and vernacular knowledge and public-participatory GIS.
Professor
Philip Pregill is Professor of Landscape Architecture. He teaches design, theory, history, and graphics in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. He is coordinator of the Landscape Architecture Italy program and is co-author of 'Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern and Western Traditions'.
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Ray has 29 years of experience in Landscape Architecture practice, and is an accomplished designer.
Lecturer
Kat Superfisky is a landscape designer, ecologist and educator who devotes her days, nights, and dreams to transforming urban areas into more inhabitable places.
Associate Professor
Professor Taylor teaches in both the Department of Landscape Architecture's graduate and undergraduate programs with a focus on landscape ecology, landscape design, planting design, and plant identification.
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Graduate Coordinator
Weimin Li, Ph.D., ASLA, currently is Professor of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Dr. Li specializes in advanced geospatial technologies e.g., geospatial data integration, geospatial analysis, geoprocessing modeling, high resolution remote sensing imagery processing and 3D landscape construction, and their application in a wide range of landscape design and planning practice.
Associate Professor
Rennie Tang is a designer and educator based in Los Angeles. As a professor of landscape architecture at California Polytechnic State University Pomona her teaching methods emphasize one-to-one scale spatial construction, topographic manipulation and material exploration.
Professor
Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture
Andrew Wilcox is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is teaches design studios at all levels with an emphasis on interdisciplinary practice and urbanism.
Staff
Administrative Coordinator
Kristopher Penrose is the Administrative Coordinator for the Landscape Architecture Department. He is tasked to serve the needs of the departments 300+ students (for both undergraduate and graduate programs), the department chair, 9 tenured/tenure-track faculty, and 12+ part-time faculty.