David Hopman, ASLA, PLA

David DuMez Hopman is a licensed professional landscape architect and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington, where his teaching reflects his research interests in landscape aesthetics, critical regionalism, native plants, regional ecology and ecologically performative landscape designs . Creative regionalism and landscape aesthetics have incited and guided his professional activities as a practitioner of landscape architecture and educator for more than 30 years. Hopman’s projects include design and implementation of the first extensive green roof in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of North Texas above the Life Sciences Building at UT-Arlington and the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) certification for The Green at College Park on the UT-Arlington campus, one of the first three projects worldwide to receive such certification. Since 2014, he has undertaken extensive research and installations of aesthetically qualified native plant polycultures as the next step forward in sustainable urban planting design. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Columns magazine, The Field, Journal of Children and Poverty, and Landscape Research Record.