Profile: Glenn Acomb

 

Glenn Acomb

ASLA Chapter: Florida

Category: Knowledge

Company/academic title: Faculty, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Construction and Sustainability, University of Florida, Gainesville

Education: Bachelor of landscape architecture from Louisiana State University (1972) and his MLA from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1978).

Glenn Acomb has 37 years of outstanding contributions as a practitioner and educator. His work, from New York to Melbourne, Australia, encompasses new town planning, historic sites, resort design and urban revitalization. At the University of Florida department of landscape architecture, he co-founded a multidisciplinary research consortium on sustainability, through which he co-designed the state?EUR??,,????'???s first green roof projects. Acomb has been a major contributor to his local community as well as to ASLA on the state and national levels.

Thoughts from a Peer: ?EUR??,,????'??What has been extraordinary about Glenn?EUR??,,????'???s work in and for the profession is his remarkable ability to integrate seemingly diverse factions?EUR??,,????'??+educators, practitioners, civic leaders, students and allied (and not-so-allied!) professionals?EUR??,,????'??+to achieve a higher community and even global agenda.?EUR??,,????'?? ?EUR??,,????'??+Cheryl Barton, FASLA, FAAR, LEED-AP, Past President ASLA