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Research/Focus Areas
  • Design and construction of constructed wetlands for wastewater, stormwater treatment and for habitat and recreation
  • Green infrastructure for the integration of stormwater, recreation, habitat and utilities
  • History of landscape architecture, especially villa and town morphology in Italy
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • LARC 155: Introduction to Landscape Architecture
  • LARC 356: Landscape Architecture Studio (Community Planning and Design)
  • LARC 380: Water in the Urban Context
  • LARC 389: Landscape Architecture History
  • LARC 457: Landscape Architecture Studio (Construction Documentation)
  • LARC 460: Landscape Architecture Studio (Undergraduate Thesis)
  • LARC 559: Bioregional Planning and Community Design Studio

Gary Austin

College of Art & Architecture
Landscape Architecture program
Associate Professor

Home Town
Monte Vista, Colorado

With UI Since
1991
Office: AA 211
Phone: (208) 885-7448
Email: gaustin@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
Landscape Architecture program
University of Idaho
PO Box 442481
Moscow, ID 83844-24841

Curriculum Vitae
  • Master of Landscape Architecture, California State University, 1982
  • Bachelor of Arts in History, California State University

My professional practice and consulting experience includes: US Army Corps of Engineers, Purkiss-Rose Associates, and my own firm, Environments, in Seattle WA.



Research Projects

  • "Historic Italian Towns" (In progress) Professor S. Drown co-author. 
  • “Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment and as Landscape Amenities in Rural Communities” in Rural Connections Journal, May 2010 in Journal. 
  •  “University/Community Engagement in Small Western Towns” in Journal of Planning Education and Research 2010, Laninga, Austin, McClure. In Review.


Outreach Projects

  • Cascade, Idaho. Planning and design projects, construction documentation and comprehensive plan update. 2008, 2009. In association with Wendy McClure, Sandra Pinel and Tammi Laninga.  
  • Priest River, Idaho. Planning and design projects, construction documentation and comprehensive plan update. 2008, 2009. In association with Wendy McClure, Rula Awwad-Rafferty, Phil Watson and Tammi Laninga.  
  • Planning and physical design for more than a dozen other Idaho, Washington and Montana towns between 1998 and 2007