Associate Professor
Dept of Landscape Architecture

Professor Lamba's expertise is the relationship between the built and the natural forms in the creation of ecologically sustainable environments. A member of the Temple University faculty since 1989, he teaches courses in public park design, campus planning, urban design, landscape engineering, and basic AutoCAD.

Professor Lamba's interests include interdisciplinary teaching, community design and urban revitalization. In addition to teaching, his diverse professional experience has included working in India, the Middle East, and the United States. Professor Lamba has won national and international design competitions, including a first place award for his design of a water garden at the National Botanical Garden in Washington, D.C. He is also the author of several articles in professional and trade publications, such as Garden Design and Your Home.

His community-based service projects have included working with Temple University Ambler students and the students of Barratt Middle School in South Philadelphia to create a roof garden, a revitalization project with Temple's Landscape Architecture students for Vernon Park in Germantown, Project El Parque in West Kensington, and El Mercado in Kensington.

As a principal investigator, Professor Lamba is involved in the development of a multidisciplinary urban design studio at Temple that would initiate a community-based planning process to research, analyze, and propose solutions to complex urban revitalization issues facing post-industrial, inner-city neighborhoods.

Professor Lamba is an associated faculty member of the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University Ambler. He is principal of Lamba Associates, Landscape Architects, and a registered landscape architect in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a member of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. He is also chairman of the Shade Tree Commission in Doylestown, Bucks County.