Baldev
Lamba, MLA, RLA, ASLA
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
MLA, University of Pennsylvania
B Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
Principal: Lamba Associates
Licensed Landscape Architect: PA, NJ, DE
ASLA Member
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.