Richard Sutton

Biography

Dr. Richard K. Sutton teaches landscape design and practices landscape architecture in Lincoln, Nebraska. He currently coordinates the landscape design option in the Agronomy and Horticulture Department at UNL, where he teaches plant materials, construction and design. The most recent of his nearly three dozen professional and popular publications was as co-author of Woody Plants for the Northern and Central Prairies. Research he conducted into an understanding scale in rural landscape received a Merit Award from the Great Plains ASLA Chapter.

His firm, Landscape Architectural Services, has engaged in residential, commercial and public projects, including streetscapes, urban wetland restoration, bio-engineering, and park restoration and design. In 2001, he completed a master landscape plan for Central Community College at Hastings, Nebraska emphasizing the use of native and adapted plants. He serves on several local boards and has chaired the McAdams Park Mater Planning Committee for his neighbors in the East Campus Community Organization.

Richard received his B.S. in Forest Biology from Colorado State University, his MLA from Utah State University and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is married and has two sons.