Dr. Olatunji Titus ADEJUMO

ADEJUMO Olatunji is a landscape architect, urban design theorist, and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His 38 years of landscape architecture and environmental planning practice span all Nigeria bioregions from small sites to urban and regional scales honoring diverse projects.

Tunji shared the last 20 years in academics with over 35 papers to his credit. His landscape architectural philosophy is rooted in geosophy as a creative approach to sustainable, people-centered development. His research interest is nested in the interface of cultural and ecological system as a determinant of useful worldview principles meaningful to conceptualization of contemporary spaces.

A past President of International Federation of Landscape Architects (African Region) and one-time President Society of Landscape Architects of Nigeria (SLAN). He currently coordinates Master of Landscape Architecture Program in the Department of Architecture, and Architecture and Urbanism Research Hub at University of Lagos. He was recently nominated as External Advisor to the West Midlands National Park Lab as part of CATiD Research Centre at Birmingham, UK. He is an External Collaborator, Critical Landscape Design Lab, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and Cambridge, USA. He is the author of a book, Landscapes: Canvas of Civilization.

 

Education

7/2012

 PhD

Department of Architecture,

University of Lagos, Akoka. Lagos. Nigeria

6/1983

 MLA

School of Landscape Architecture,

State University of New York, Syracuse. USA

7/1978

 B Sc

Department of Forest Resources,

University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria.