Jean Kavanagh, FASLA
Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Associate, CASNR Water Center

TTU, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, P.O. Box 42121, Lubbock, TX 79409
1.806.742.2858  | 1.806.742.0770
jean.kavanagh@ttu.edu

http://www.larc.ttu.edu/jkavanagh/

Education

• M.LA., Landscape Architecture, Cornell University (1982)
• B.S., Landscape Architecture, Cornell University (1976)

Dr. Jean Kavanagh’s scholarly efforts maintain a focus in therapeutic landscapes. In the past ten years, as the number and quality of therapeutic gardens and landscapes have grown to become an important sector of practice in Landscape Architecture, her studies and expertise have been sought by students and practitioners from around the world. Her induction into the ASLA College of Fellows resulted from her research, teaching and public service activities related to therapeutic landscapes. She has completed on-site interviews, observations, POE’s, and photographic documentation of hundreds of therapeutic gardens in the past ten years.

Dr. Kavanagh is the President-elect of the Texas Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects and the President of Sigma Lambda Alpha Landscape Architecture Honor Society. She continues to sustain an active national, state, and regional program of community service activities in addition to the seminars and workshops she has conducted for the American Society of Landscape Architects national and chapter organizations and other forums.

Courses Taught
Introduction to Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Principles of Landscape Architecture, Planting Design, Graphic Communications, LARC Problems, Landscape Architecture Implementation, Collaboration Studio, LARC Graphics, Special Problems in Landscape Architecture: Language of Design, Site Design, Vegetation Theory/Design, Advanced Land Planning and Design

Selected Publications

• “Design for Therapeutic Gardens” in American Council of Garden Clubs Horticultural Therapy Manual, Revised.  Martha DeHart, Ed., American Council of Garden Clubs, Atlanta, GA, 2001.
•  “Outdoor Settings for Horticultural Therapy” , Chapter 13 in Horticultural Therapy, Eds. Sharon Simson and Martha Strauss, Heywood Publishing Co. Fall 1998.
• "Linking the Curriculum With Life Stages and Landscapes", Chapter 18 in Strategies for Teaching Universal Design, Polly Welch, ed., pp. 141-146.  (To be published Winter 1995-96).
• "People-Plant Principles from the Past", Chapter 17 in People-Plant Relations: Setting Research Priorities, Joel Flagler and Raymond P. Poincelot, eds.  The Haworth Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1994, pp. 231-238.
• "Surveying the Therapeutic Landscape: A Quest for Cases of Outdoor Therapy Settings,” Chapter 25 in People-Plant Relations: Setting Research Priorities, Joel Flagler and Raymond P. Poincelot, eds.  The Haworth Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1994, pp. 315-326
• Co-Author, “The Therapeutic Landscape: History, Design, and Application”, Proceedings of the 1999 ASLA Centennial National Meeting, Boston, MA September 1999.
• Co-Editor,  Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture revision, American Horticultural Therapy Association, Gaithersburg, Maryland, January 1997.