Joe Porter

Biography

Joe Porter received his BLA from Utah State University in 1963 and his MLA from the University of Illinois in 1968.

As founding Principal, past President and past Chairman of the Board of Design Workshop, Joe has profoundly impacted the face of landscape architecture throughout the U.S. and abroad. Design Workshop’s projects involve landscape architecture, urban design, land planning and tourism planning, always with an eye to smart growth and environmental sensitivity. Design Workshop received the ASLA Landscape Architect Medal in 2008, which recognizes and celebrates their entire body of work.

Joe is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a board member and former president of The Center for Design Innovation and the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and a member of the Urban Land Institute. He has been an Assistant Professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University and the School of Design at North Carolina State University and an Adjunct Professor of landscape architecture at the University of Colorado.