Earl Broussard, ASLA

Earl Broussard, ASLA
ASLA Chapter: Texas Chapter
Category: Leadership/Management

Company/academic title: TBG Partners, Austin, Texas
Education: Bachelor of landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and his master of landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Earl Broussard is a teacher, mentor, advocate, elected official, and founder of one of the largest landscape architecture firms in the Southwest. The firm's landscapes encompass the iconic entirety of the Texas cultural landscape, including the state capitol, the governor's mansion, and the Alamo. As a six-term city councilman, he is the first landscape architect in Texas to hold an elected public office. During that time, he established landscape preservation codes for West Lake Hills and advanced public appreciation of the value of landscape architecture. Broussard co-led the campaign to bring Texas a landscape architecture practice act.