Brian
Orland
Department Head
125 Stuckeman Family Building • University Park, PA • 16802
ph: 814.865.9511 • email: boo1@psu.edu
Website: http://www.imlab.psu.edu
Education:
BA (Hons) Architecture, University of Manchester. June 1974.
BArch, University of Manchester. June 1976.
MLA, University of Arizona. August 1982.
Full CV
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Orland was appointed Head of Landscape Architecture at Penn State
in 2000. From 1982-2000 he was Professor of Landscape Architecture
and Director of the Imaging Systems Laboratory, at the University
of Illinois, USA. He has degrees in Architecture, from the University
of Manchester, and in Landscape Architecture from the University
of Arizona. During 1989 and 1996 he was a Visiting Research Fellow
at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Professional Background: A registered architect
since 1977, he has worked in private practice in the United Kingdom
for Covell Matthews and Charles Pearson Partners, in East Africa
as Senior Architect for Euroconsult bv., and in Central America
as principal and partner with Julio Torres, Ing.. Practicing initially
in commercial development and subsidized housing in Europe his experience
in Tanzania and El Salvador focused on innovative solutions for
low-cost and self-build housing systems, including the planning
and development of neighborhood infrastructure.
Practicing in landscape architecture and
planning since 1981, his work has included consulting in tourism
development, neighborhood planning, forest management and the application
of computing in planning and design.
Teaching: He has taught design, at undergraduate and graduate level,
with particular emphasis on human-environment interactions. At the
graduate level he teaches land resource evaluation and environmental
perception. From 1990-2000 much of his teaching took place in the
context of the East St. Louis Action Research Project, a nationally
acclaimed service learning program which engages students in partnerships
with community residents and leaders to develop innovative planning
and organizational responses to urban issues.
Research: Interests include environmental
perception, neighborhood-based community planning, and the computer
modeling of environmental impacts. Applied studies have included
the impacts of highway development, of insect pest impacts and logging
on national forests, and of the effects of military training activities.
Basic research has investigated methodological issues in perception
research.
He has particular expertise in the design of on-line information
systems to support community based development initiatives. His
work addresses the use of World-Wide-Web based GIS and data delivery
tools that can dramatically improve community-scale problem-solving.
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