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Full CV
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Education
B.A., Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1960
D.A., Diploma Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1962
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1964

Teaching
Freehand drawing and digital visualization
Urban design and landscape architecture
Sustainable design methods and materials
Urban form and place theory, Rome Italy, Sede di Roma

Research
Computational fluid dynamics applied to urban form and open space
Italian hill towns

Professional Practice
Urban design, urban planning

Professor Dickie is a registered architect, a registered landscape architect and a member of the AIA and ASLA.

Professor Dickie received a B.A. in architecture in 1960 and a D.A. (Diploma in Architecture) from Edinburgh College of Art in 1962. Upon graduation in Scotland he immigrated to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania and received a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture in 1964.

In 1964 he joined the faculty of the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri. Professor Dickie held an appointment as Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and taught programs in housing and urban design as well as a lecture series in Landscape Architecture. During that period he was an associate architect with Anselevicius and Rupe and was a member of the design team that won the competition for the new Law Library on the campus of Washington University. He was a member of the Campus Planning office and was senior Landscape Architect for the year 2000 master plan for the campus. As a private practitioner he designed several parks in the St. Louis area including Lorrimer Park, the setting for the Mississippi River Festival and recently the landscape setting for the Three Rivers sculpture by Richard Serra.

In 1972 Professor Dickie joined the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) with the primary purpose of establishing a department of landscape architecture that would later come to be associated with all SOM’s offices across the United States and abroad. Major works of national importance and one in which he continues to act as primary consultant is Constitution Gardens in Washington DC. Professor Dickie was the senior landscape architect and principal landscape designer for the 45-acre park. In 1973 SOM was commissioned to design the park and provide design services to the National Park Service for the park and the entire area of The Mall in preparation for the bicentennial celebrations of 1976. Professor Dickie as Associate Partner at SOM designed many important national and international projects, including new towns in Iran and Saudi Arabia. He was the senior landscape architect for Jiddah International Airport a project 5 square miles in area.

Professor Dickie joined the Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) Washington D.C. office with express purpose of establishing a planning group department to serve the firms growing presence in the D.C. area. From 1980 to 1990 Professor Dickie was senior designer in a wide variety of project types. He was principal planner on Tysons Corners, Pentagon City, Towers Oaks and the Washingtonian. He was the senior landscape architect on the team and designed the setting for the extension to the National Archives in College Park Maryland. In addition he was senior designer and planner for the site selection for the new National Air & Space Museum at Dulles Airport. During the last few years with HOK in Washington Professor Dickie was senior planner for the site selection for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and the Korean Memorial. Professor Dickie designed the Kahlil Gibran Memorial and after joining the faculty of Penn State University designed the setting for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial. Professor Dickie’s career is extensive and wide ranging in project types from campuses to court buildings from mixed-use developments to urban housing.

Throughout his professional career Professor Dickie continued to lecture and participate in teaching programs nationally and internationally. He has lectured at Edinburgh University, The University di Catholica in Santiago Chile, and conducted semester long adjunct professor courses at the University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and SUNY in Buffalo, NY.

Since joining the faculty in 1990 Professor Dickie has continued to maintain his professional interests, he is currently a member of the advisory committee to the Vietnam Memorial Foundation, the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and the In Memory Plaque board of trustees.