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Faculty Dean Abbott Roger Clemence Ann Forsyth Clint Hewitt John Koepke Rebecca Krinke Roger Martin Kristine Miller Laura Musacchio Lance Neckar David Pitt Robert Sykes Adjunct Faculty Joseph R. Favour Robert J. Gunderson Jon Kingstad Richard Murphy, Jr. Patrick Nunnally Peter Olin Sharon Pfeifer Dan Shaw Lecturers Research Fellows  faculty+staff main page | |||
Robert Gunderson Bob Gunderson is a landscape architect with an exceptional breadth of experience in the field. He has practiced for a number of firms throughout the US and is currently a partner and head of the Site Development Group at the multidisciplinary firm, ATS&R. Gunderson received his MLA at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Ian McHarg, Leslie Sauer, Laurie Olin, and Robert Hanna. Those instructors are now historic leaders in the areas of Gunderson's strongest professional interests: land use planning and sustainable design. Gunderson's experience in land use planning ranges from helping create new towns across the southern United States during the 1980s, to his work with ATS&R. The firm specializes in creating schools and campuses and has won many awards for its work, most recently for Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes, MN and Valley Crossing School in Woodbury, MN. Gunderson's department is responsible for land planning, site development and non-architectural detail design. He has also completed the planting master plan for the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet campus in Saint Paul and is working on a project he describes as "the greening of the Dunwoody Institute," in Minneapolis. Gunderson advocates for sustainable design by introducing clients to the concept and incorporating sustainable practices into his firm's work. Most recently, Gunderson and ATS&R have been experimenting with pervious pavement at a school in Washington County in order to help manage stormwater runoff. In addition to incorporating sustainable design practices in his work, Gunderson was also a key contributor to the Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide. The Design Guide is a tool for designers, building owners, operations staff, and occupants to employ in constructing and managing structures in an environmentally sustainable fashion. The Design Guide is the combined product of representatives from a number of disciplines, and for three years Gunderson represented landscape architecture and contributed to the topics on water and site design strategies. At CALA, Gunderson employs his nation-wide experience in construction detailing to teach technology classes, and he has also taught design studios. In addition to his research associated with the Design Guide, Gunderson also participated in a project surveying typical subdivision design regulations. The Model Residential Land Use Guidelines project examined regulations in seventeen developing Minnesota communities and studied successful historic US planned communities. The study concluded that regulations for the seventeen developing communities were nearly identical although they had different environmental contexts and community needs. From the historical survey, the project team identified components of successful development and created and recommended regulations based on environmental and social connectedness, security, and sustainability. In addition to scholarly endeavors, Gunderson is very active in the local and national levels of the American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA], including serving as President of the Minnesota chapter of ASLA from 1995-1996. | |||
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