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Institutional & Campus Environments

Professional Practice Network


This PPN is for landscape architects involved in institutional and campus environments—ranging from traditional academic campuses to broader institutional, corporate, and cultural campuses. 

2018 ASLA Professional General Award, Honor Award. Legacy and Community: Juxtaposing Heritage and Invention for Duke University's West Campus. Durham, NC, USA. Duke University

Duke University

The Institutional and Campus Environments PPN serves as a bridge between planning, design, operations, and institutional leadership. 

While many PPNs focus on specific practice areas or project types, our PPN examines the broader systems that influence how campuses function, evolve, and thrive. We recognize that successful institutional environments require collaboration across multiple disciplines and stakeholders. 

Our members explore how landscape architecture intersects with campus planning, mobility, sustainability, resilience, student experience, public space design, facilities management, and strategic decision-making. By connecting ideas from across the profession, the PPN provides a comprehensive perspective on creating places that support institutional missions and enrich the lives of their users.

The Institutional and Campus Environments PPN creates a space where passionate professionals can come together to share knowledge, challenge assumptions, and advance the practice of landscape architecture and planning.

Who Should Join

The Institutional and Campus Environments PPN welcomes professionals and stakeholders who are passionate about shaping places that support education, research, healthcare, culture, and community. 

Membership is particularly valuable for:

  • Emerging professionals seeking to build relationships, gain mentorship, and expand their understanding of institutional and campus planning and design.
  • Landscape architects, planners, architects, engineers, and allied professionals interested in sharing ideas, learning from peers, and staying current on emerging trends.
  • Campus planners, facilities professionals, administrators, faculty, and institutional leaders looking to better understand planning and design strategies that support their organization's mission and long-term goals.
  • Students, educators, and researchers interested in the evolving role of campus environments in fostering learning, innovation, wellness, sustainability, and community engagement
  • Individuals interested in expanding their professional network beyond ASLA through engagement with allied organizations and institutional partners, creating opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, shared learning, and broader industry influence.

Why Join

The Institutional and Campus Environments PPN is a community built around collaboration, innovation, and professional growth. 

Members gain: 

  • Access to a network of professionals who can serve as trusted advisors, collaborators, and sounding boards for ideas and challenges. 
  • Opportunities to exchange lessons learned from campus planning, design, implementation, and management projects across a wide variety of institutions. 
  • Insight into emerging technologies, data-driven planning tools, sustainability initiatives, resilience strategies, and evolving design methodologies. 
  • Exposure to innovative approaches that can help institutions create more vibrant, equitable, healthy, and sustainable environments.
  • Opportunities to share expertise, showcase projects, and contribute thought leadership that advances the profession. Meaningful professional relationships that support career development, mentorship, and future collaboration. 

Whether you are shaping a long-range campus vision, designing a signature open space, or addressing day-to-day operational challenges, the PPN provides a forum for learning from others who share similar goals and experiences.

PPN Chair

Tony Catchot, PLA, ASLA

Tony Catchot, Pond's Director of Campus Planning and Design, leads the planning and design of a myriad of project types across the nation and abroad. This includes college and university campuses, urban/suburban mixed-use developments, healthcare, innovation and industrial districts, corporate office parks, and recreation complexes. He is skilled at leading complex planning and design teams and collaborating with host communities to garner support for proposed initiatives and projects.

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Institutional and campus environments are more than collections of buildings and landscapes—they are places where people learn, discover, heal, connect, and grow.
What excites me the most is the opportunity to help shape environments that positively influence generations of users while advancing the missions of the institutions they serve. Knowing that these conversations can lead to better places and better outcomes for institutions and their communities is what makes this work so rewarding.

Tony Catchot, PLA, ASLA | PPN Chair

ASLA members in conversation during a Professional Practice Network event at the ASLA conference

Leadership Delegates 2026-2027

Leadership Delegates are volunteers who help turn the Chair's vision into action by leading projects, contributing to deliverables, and driving the network's goals forward.

  • Radu Dicher
  • Jim Cowan 
  • Phil Fernberg 
  • Chris Davis
  • Genevieve Russell

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