Landscape Architecture Faculty

Philip Pregill is Professor of Landscape Architecture and the coordinator of
department1s Landscape Architecture Italy program. His teaching includes
design, history, technology, and graphics in both the graduate and
undergraduate programs. He is co-author of ŒLandscapes in History: Design
and Planning in the Eastern and Western traditions1, and is currently
conducting research on perception in the design process. His investigations
into perception continue to produce essays and presentations and to yield
works that appear in juried competitions. He received his BA and his MLA
from the University of Oregon.

Kyle is currently serving as Director for the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. Prior to assuming the position of Director, he taught intermediate design in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as advanced courses in the graduate curriculum. His research interests include the integration of ecological sustainability and social justice concerns, has recently published articles in Landscape Review and Landscape Journal on these topics, and has spoken at numerous conferences.

Most recently, Kyle has been named Co-Chair of the President’s Climate Task Force at Cal Poly Pomona, charged with developing a plan for climate neutrality for campus and the integration of sustainability into the curriculum.

Kyle is the co-editor of Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture CD-ROM, and co-author of the Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook, and Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Detail Manual.  He received a BLA from the University of Minnesota, an MLA and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts.

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Gerald teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate programs with a focus on landscape ecology, advanced landscape design, planting design, and plant identification. He is actively involved in research and professional projects relating to ecological restoration, ethnobotany, native plant habitats, urban ecology, and the healing and restorative properties of landscapes.

In addition to being a Registered Landscape Architect, Gerald is a Certified Arborist. He attended Pitzer College majoring in Environmental Studies & Political Science and entered the field of landscape architecture by receiving his BSLA and MLA from Cal Poly Pomona.

Photography is a serious passion of Gerald's and his photographs have been displayed at art shows and exhibitions. Other interests include playing the guitar, hiking, cooking, and spending time with his wonderful wife, friends, family, and his dog, Daphne.

Andy Wilcox, ASLA, is a CA registered landscape architect and assistant professor in the department of landscape architecture. He teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate programs where he runs design studios and coordinates the construction sequences. He received his B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona and M.L.A. from the University of Southern California.

Academically, Andy is interested in the contemporary application of topography, the means by which we communicate landscape and issues of materiality and site. Additionally he is still interested in the practice of the discipline of landscape architecture by exploring ideas through both competitions and built work.

Andy has built and been associated with numerous projects, one of which was awarded a 2007 ASLA Honor Award for residential design. Andy is interested in expanding the terrain of landscape architecture and views landscape as all-inclusive and without specific boundaries.

Joan Hirschman Woodward, FASLA, is Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She received her B.A in Botany from DePauw University and M.L.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is the author of Waterstained Landscapes:  Seeing and Shaping Regionally Distinctive Places (2000, Johns Hopkins University Press) and her work on pattern- and process-based landscape design has appeared in Ecology of Greenways (Smith and Hellmund, 1993), Ecological Planning and Design (Thompson and Steiner 1997), Ecology and Design (Johnson and Hill 2002), and Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Swaffield 2002) Her current research focus regards designing resilient landscapes in the face of probable disruption, and articles have appeared in Landscape Review (2005), Landscape Architecture (2005), and Landscape Journal (2008).

Woodward teaches ecological design, planting design, leadership, research, and methods/applications courses and has been a member of the Cal Poly Pomona 606 Studio faculty team since 1993 (Co-Principal since 1998).