Sadik Artunç, FASLA
“Landscape architecture has the keys for sustainable and resilient future.”
Sadık C. Artunç, FASLA, FCELA has been the Head of Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University (MSU) since January 2007. Prior to his tenure at MSU, he taught in the Robert S. Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University between 2007 - 1981.
A native of Turkey, Sadık is a naturalized citizen of the U.S.A. He has earned BS and MS in forestry and forest engineering from the University of Istanbul and MLA from the University of Michigan. He is a registered landscape architect in the U.S.A. and a registered forester and forest engineer in Turkey. His teaching involves design implementation and construction, site planning and design, and regional planning and design. His professional consulting involves large-scale planning and design with a focus mostly on recreation and tourism, resource planning, and design implementation and construction.
Sadık has been an active member of various professional organizations and societies since 1981. Always a tireless and enthusiastic promoter of the profession of landscape architecture and ASLA, CELA, LAAB, and IFLA. Sadık served at various leadership capacities and levels: the Louisiana Chapter president (1991); chapter trustee (1996–2001); and finally, as the national vice-president of membership (2002–2004). He has served as the President of CELA in 2020-2021. Sadık was inducted into the ASLA Council of Fellows in 2000, and CELA Academy of Fellows in 2023.
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