Rate My Professor Rob Holmes

Holmes specializes in research on infrastructure design, urbanization, and landscape change, directing the Landscape Infrastructure Design Lab and leading the Natural Infrastructure Innovation Project funded by $7.75 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature program to develop solutions like marsh restoration and barrier islands for Gulf Coast challenges. As co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a nonprofit advancing sediment system design, he has earned the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from his school at Auburn, the 2019-2020 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Excellence in Research Award, multiple 2019 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Awards for Public Sediment for Alameda Creek, and the Dean’s Outstanding Leadership & Mentorship Award. Key publications include “The Problem with Solutions” in Places Journal (2020), “Integrating Engineering With Nature Strategies and Landscape Architecture Techniques into the Sabine to Galveston Coastal Storm Risk Management Project” in Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (2021), and the chapter “Design with change” in Design with Nature Now (2019). He has taught numerous landscape architecture studios, history, theory, and practice courses and delivered invited lectures at universities including City College of New York and the University of Texas at Austin.