Associate Professor and Program Head of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture
Kate Benisek is a landscape architect, civic ecologist and urban horticulturist.
Kate is an environmental educator who teaches undergraduate courses offered as part of the General Education program, undergraduate design studio courses and the…
Josh Caplan is an environmental biologist who studies plant and soil dynamics in human-modified settings.
With most of his work, he seeks to understand how plants and soils respond to environmental extremes (for example, in salinity, soil…
Sasha Eisenman is a botanist and horticulturist with a diverse portfolio of research projects.
Currently, his primary area of research is on the survival, health and ecophysiological responses of plants in green infrastructure systems (tree…
Billy Fleming is an interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice. He is the co-founder and strategic co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think tank that works with movements and elected officials to mobilize cutting…
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Nathan Heavers is an ecological designer with a background in horticulture and visual arts.
He researches the diverse ways that humans manage, cultivate, and design forests. Currently, Nathan is working on an urban forestry management plan for…
Associate Professor and Chair of Environmental Design
Rob Kuper teaches undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture design studio and engineering courses.
Between 2012 and 2020, he co-directed design-build studio course projects that received almost 40 awards. Recently, Rob has taught the…
Michael Olszewski is an expert in horticultural substrates and seed germination.
He has practiced as both a plant biologist and scientist before joining Temple’s faculty.
His extensive research has generated several publications,…
Cynthia Ahern is a naturalist who focuses on interrelationships between plants and animals in natural and manipulated environments. She creates landscapes featuring native plants with high nutritional value for pollinators and other wildlife. Her…
Lisa Blum has over 35 years’ of experience teaching horticulture at both Saul High School of Agricultural Science and at Temple University. Her areas of expertise include plant pathology and entomology, stress physiology, arboriculture and urban…
Michael Coll has managed landscapes in southeastern Pennsylvania for the past 12 years. His focus is the restoration of native ecosystems to facilitate biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. Currently Michael lives on and manages Hildacy Preserve…
Jesse Forrester is a 2004 alum of Temple University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture.
His professional career began at the Olin Partnership (now Olin) working on the Mill River Park and Greenway, Bethel Performing…
Michael LoFurno joined the Tyler faculty in 2007 and has taught a number of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The majority of his teaching experience has been in the third-year design and construction aspects of the annual…
Adjunct Faculty and Manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex
As manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple University Ambler, Benjamin Snyder oversees the use and care of various educational horticulture features, including a tropical greenhouse collection, organic food production…
Eric Tamulonis is a landscape architect in private practice as founder of PARRICUSdesign and former partner at WRT and principal at OLIN. In 40 years of practice, his work has focused on public open space and academic campus planning and design…
Judy Venonsky passionately pursues the intersection of ecology, art and science. She is a practicing Landscape Architect and Associate at OLIN where she spearheads the Eco Lab research team, infusing design excellence with emerging knowledge of…
/*-->*/ Bess Wellborn Yates is particularly interested in sites with complex histories and their intersection with community-based design initiatives and urban ecological restoration. She teaches landscape design studios, courses…
After 33 years of service, Associate Professor Pauline Hurley-Kurtz retired in December 2023, having started as an instructor in 1990 and working her way up to chair of the Landscape Architecture program in 2015.
Hurley-Kurtz is a registered…
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…
Mary Myers is a registered landscape architect whose years in practice inform her teaching, research and outreach. She is the author of Andrea Cochran: Landscapes, and co-author of the anthology Sustainable Design. She has…
Lolly Tai is a licensed landscape architect whose work is focused on sustainable landscape design. Tai’s experience includes a wide range of landscape architectural design projects of varying scope and scales. She incorporates innovative…
