Tim Baird, RLA, ASLA
Assistant Professor

326 Stuckeman Family Building • University Park, PA • 16802
ph: 814.863.2372 • email: ctb3@psu.edu

Tim Baird is an Alabama native, with landscape architecture degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Pennsylvania. Tim's wife, Kathy, is a social worker. Their son, Taylor, is five-and-a-half years old. Most recently, Tim was an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Texas Tech University. He is a registered lsandscape architect in four states, and brings over twenty-five years of national and international design expertise through his association with the venerable firms of Hargreaves Associates, Peter Walker and Partners, and Hanna/Olin, Ltd. Tim played key roles on such notable projects as the Guadalupe River Park in San Jose, California, and The Columbus Center in Baltimore, Maryland, with Hargreaves Associates; the Vila Olimpica in Barcelona, Spain, with Peter Walker and Partners; and the Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with Hanna/Olin, Ltd. Tim will teach the design and implementation studio sequence, while his scholarship will address environmental art, stormwater management, and research as a catalyst for forging stronger links between the academy and professional practice.