Dale Sutliff, ASLA

Retired - Teaching Spring Quarter

Professor

Dale Sutliff, ASLA, is a professor in the Landscape Architecture Department. A licensed landscape architect, he has been actively involved in professional practice projects throughout his career that encompass a full spectrum of the profession. His background has included both private and public sector practice, and has ranged from design and planning for gardens and homes through leisure/recreation based projects and open space planning, to housing and community design as well as environmental assessment and regional planning. This background has been incorporated in his teaching and academic guidance of the department. Environmental and social implications in design are at the forefront of his teaching, practice and research. Sutliff holds a BSLA degree from Cal Poly University, Pomona, and a Masters of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Walter Bremer, ASLA

Professor

Walter Bremer is a Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department, College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. He is responsible for courses utilizing computer technologies and regional landscape assessment utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) and is currently involved in various University and Department computing and teaching and learning activities. In support of his teaching, Professor Bremer is active on the central coast of California in the implementation of GIS technology to landscape scale planning activities and directs the Geographic Information Technology Lab - GIST in the Landscape Architecture Department. Professor Bremer was previously with the Department of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, where he had similar teaching responsibilities. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with a minor in Research Biology from Mankato State University in Mankato, Minnesota and a Master in Landscape Architecture degree from Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Gary Clay

Associate Professor

Gary R. Clay holds a BLA from Utah State University, an MLA from theUniversity of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, School or Renewable Natural Resources. Prior to his doctoral research in Arizona, Gary worked for the firm of Edward D. Stone, Jr. & Associates in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for six years. At EDSA, Gary organized the firms computer-related design activities, which emphasized a range of computer functions including CAD, GIS, 3D modeling, animation, and computer visualization. Gary also has international design experience, with time spent in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Scotland. His interests range from landscape aesthetics and visual analysis, to Asian art and design..

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Gary Dwyer

Retired - Teaching Winter Quarter

Professor

Gary Dwyer is an artist with twenty years of international experience working in a variety of landscape, sculpture and photographic genres. He was commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture to articulate the site of an ancient spring in Limousin. The Eastern European Artists Union commissioned him to design and construct a memorial for The Last Battle of World War Two in Slovenia. The State of Minnesota commissioned him to design symbolic courtyards for the Minnesota State Prison for Women and he has just completed a project in Monet's Garden addressing the needs of the disabled. His photographic assignments have sent him on climbing expeditions in the Nepal Himalaya and to Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. In 1994 he was commissioned to assist UNESCO by photographing World Heritage Sites in Hue, Vietnam. He is currently a professor of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly.

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Joseph J. Donaldson, ASLA

Lecturer

jdonalds@calpoly.edu

Joe Donaldson brings over 20 years of experience in public and private practice and teaching to the department. His experience and expertise are in integrated natural resource planning and management, open space planning and design, ecological restoration, community planning, recreation and park planning, design for ecologically sensitive areas, interpretive planning and design, landscape analysis, and visual resource analysis. His primary interest is in planning and design that balances natural resource protection with public use requirements for access, recreation, and interpretation. He has extensive experience performing natural resource, open space, and recreation planning for various federal and other government agencies, including a Resource Management Plan and EIS for the BLM for over 3 million acres in Arizona and he has helped train BLM staff throughout the U.S. in natural resource management and planning. Mr. Donaldson has taught in the Land Use and Environmental Planning program for University Extension at U. C. Davis and the Landscape Architecture Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He is a licensed landscape architect (California license number 2540) and serves on the Board of Directors of the California Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration.

Omar Faruque

Professor

Registered both as architect and landscape architect, Omar Faruque is well known for his teaching, research and publication in the area of relationships among graphic communication, design theory and creativity. Other areas of his research include cultural landscape literature, typography and three-dimensional modeling for design exploration. He received his undergraduate and graduate education from the Texas A&M University. He offered numerous design workshops at various universities and organizations including American Society of Landscape Architects and American Institute of Architects. He had taught at Texas A&M and Ball State University before joining Cal Poly in 1989. He authored the book, Graphic Communication as a Design Tool and is currently writing two other books. He also designed several typefaces including the one called Omar Faruque.

William MacElroy

Assistant Professor

Bill MacElroy received his MLA from the University of Michigan in 1984. Currently he is a lecturer in the Landscape Architecture department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Before joining Cal Poly, Bill taught for five years in the graduate and undergraduate Landscape Architecture programs in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to teaching Bill gained thirteen years experience as a lead designer and project manager for a diverse range of projects with notable stops at Johnson, Johnson & Roy inc., and Peter Pollack Associates, both in Ann Arbor Michigan, as well as with Rich Haag Associates in Seattle, Washington. BillŐs teaching and practice interests are in integrating green technologies and conservation design in the development of innovative and meaningful cultural spaces in urban and urbanizing environments.

Christine O'Hara

Lecturer

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Astrid Reeves

Lecturer

Astrid Besgen Reeves is a lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,CA. Her areas of concentration and interest have included the beginning design courses (2nd and 3rd year), landscape and cultural history, children's environments and the issues women face in the design disciplines. With a Master's Degree in Education, Astrid Reeves has also focused her energies on the various teaching and learning techniques in design education. As a licensed landscape architect since 1985, she has continued to work with several organizations on community service projects, as well as, in private practice with firms in California.

Joseph Ragsdale

Assistant Professor

Through teaching and practice, Joseph hopes to inspire a passion for design and a passion for the landscape in which we dwell. His development as a designer was forged at the University of California Berkeley, and later working as a licensed landscape architect in both southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area. Joseph received a M.L.A. degree from the University of Virginia, where he continued to teach and practice. Recent work with the D.I.R.T. studio focuses on giving simple form to the complex processes of remediation and regeneration of industrial and post-industrial sites. Current teaching and practice interests focus on landscape representation, design research, and urban landscapes.

Walter Tryon

Walt passed on October 25, 2005. We miss him greatly, but he will live on in our hearts forever.

Professor

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Walter M. Tryon is a Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department, College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA. He is responsible for teaching courses in site and urban design, theory, and analysis. Walt has organized and led six eleven week Off Campus Study Programs - Italy and Greece, Spain and Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and China and Southeast Asia. As a design critic, consultant and guest lecturer, Walt is concerned with a holistic approach to environmental issues. Current professional activity includes research into environmental awareness, study of native cultures and vernacular landscapes, learning centered education and curriculum development, and assistance/support to developing countries. He has experience in a broad range of environmental design and planning projects in this country and abroad.

Wanda Bolt

Retired Winter 2004

Administrative Assistant

Wanda Bolt has been the Department Secretary since October, 1981. Prior to coming to the Landscape Architecture Department she served nearly two years in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design and eleven years at Cal State University, Northridge. Wanda provides clerical and administrative support for the department, faculty and students. She feels that working with students and the educational environment in general is a rewarding and enlightening experience. Outside interests include gardening and camping.

Stratton Semmes

Lecturer

ssemmes@calpoly.edu

Stratton Semmes

Kathleen Mastako

Administrative Support Coordinator

klmastak@calpoly.edu

Kathy Mastako has been providing administrative support for the department since January 2004. Prior to joining the department and moving to the California Central Coast, she worked in human resources management for high tech companies in California’s Silicon Valley. Kathy is new to Cal Poly and to working in an educational environment, and is enjoying the challenges and experiences this new opportunity brings. Her outside interests include gardening, jogging, hiking, sailing, and spending time with her six grandchildren.