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Among the company’s most notable work is the redesign of Hayden Plaza in New Orleans to restore the existing sculptural design and provide new seating, lighting, and landscaping to add cultural significance to the plaza to house the memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. continue to honor In Haiti, Design Jones worked on the rebuilding and restoration of the city of Jacmel, a city that had an impact on the architecture and urban design of New Orleans after a devastating earthquake.
In addition to her practice, Jones Allen has been Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas, Arlington, since 2014. Prior to her calling in Texas, she taught at Morgan State University for nearly eight years.
A respected author, Jones Allen authored Lost in the Transit Desert: Race Transit Access and Suburban Form, published by Routledge Press in 2017, and is co-editor of Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity, Island Press, 2017. She is also part of an interdisciplinary team that won the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) 2020 Research Award, which focuses on the study of social justice in urban contexts.
As a participant in the 2017 ASLA Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change, Jones Allen serves on the Board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation as Vice President of Education for 2021. She has also been appointed a Garden and Landscape Study Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks for the 2021-22 academic year.
Jones Allen received her bachelor’s degree in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, followed by a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She also earned a PhD in Transportation Engineering from Morgan State University.
Austin Allen’s background in landscape architecture and documentary film reflects his dedication and approach to problem solving and recreational projects in urban settings. He is Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, Arlington, where he is currently the interim director of the landscape architecture program. Allen was the first Bickham Chair at Louisiana State University in the School of Landscape Architecture of the College of Art and Design. He was also an Associate Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado, Denver, and an Associate Professor of Film and Communication at Cleveland State University.
Allen received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley in March 2017. He is currently on the board of directors of the Black Landscape Architects Network and a member of the Honorary Committee for Olmsted 200, the national celebration of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday in 2022.
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