Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Baldev Lamba, MLA, RLA, ASLA
- Email: blamba@temple.edu
- Phone: 267-337-3195
- Office: Ambler Campus, Dixon Hall 107
- Website: www.lambaassociates.wordpress.com
Baldev Lamba has more than three decades of experience working as an Architect and Landscape Architect in India, the Middle East and the United States. Lamba’s award-winning projects include the First Ladies Water Garden on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.; the Campus Design Competition in India; Hansell Park in Buckingham, PA; and the Philadelphia Horticultural Society’s Pop-Up Garden in Philadelphia, PA. Lamba’s notable accomplishments also include the Excellence in Research and Creative Work Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and his acclaimed series of award-winning Pop Up Parks in Philadelphia and Doylestown.
Lamba’s recent publications include Green Green: A Community Gardening Story [Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers], a co-authored, children’s picture book that advocates reclaiming abandoned lots as community gardens to transform neighborhoods.
His academic studio projects—most notably the Philadelphia Flower Show exhibits—have won numerous awards in the categories of design, environment, conservation, horticultural excellence and exceptional educational merit from regional and national organizations.
Lamba is a registered Landscape Architect in Pennsylvania and Delaware and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
MLA, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1981
PG Diploma on LA, Delhi University, 1976
BArch, Delhi University, India, 1973
Selected Awards
Merit Award, General Design Category (2012)
American Society of Landscape Architects, Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter
In recognized of Pop Up Parks: Low Cost, Low Risk, High Impact Installations
Merit Award, Communications Category (2017)
American Society of Landscape Architects, Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter
For Green Green: A Community Gardening Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Excellence in Research and Creative Work Award (2012)
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)
Honors Lamba’s body of creative work that integrates ecological, social and artistic
principles and processes in the design of built landscapes
Selected Works
Lamba, B., & Lamba, M. (2017). Green Green: A Community Gardening Story. New York, NY:
Farrar Straus Giroux.
Lamba, B. (2013, December). Designs that Perform: Sustainability Paradigm in Practice.
Architectural Worlds Magazine, 6(28), 60-71.
Lamba, B., & Chapman, G. (2010, June). Teaching Sustainable Design: A Hands-on
Interdisciplinary Model. HortTechnology Journal, 20(3), 487-494.
Lamba, B., & Jost, D. (Eds.). (2010, January). Making Research Matter: How Can We Bridge
the Gap Between Research and Design? Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Lamba, B. (2004). Designing the New American Frontier: The Culture of Inner City Landscapes.
Landscape Review Journal, 9(1), 20.