Landscape Architecture | Professor

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Research and Extension + Director PhD in Design Program

Professor Rice received a BLA degree from the University of Oregon in 1973. After practicing professionally in California he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received a Master of Landscape Architecture with Distinction in 1978. At graduation he received the Harvard Charles Elliot Traveling Fellowship and an International Research and Exchange Board Fellowship. These awards made it possible for him to go to Russia, at that time the Soviet Union, for six months as a visiting lecturer and researcher at the Moscow Engineering and Building Institute. In addition, he has taught landscape architecture and planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Tufts University and was an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Russian and European Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Professor Rice came to the NCState School of Design in 1990 and served as Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture for ten years. He has been involved in teaching advanced graduate design studios and has spoken nationally and internationally on his research related to design education and affective teaching/communication methods.

In 1992, as President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), Professor Rice worked to improve international communication among educators in landscape architecture. He helped to initiate formal interaction between CELA and the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). He has also traveled extensively and has taught design studios in Russia, Venezuela, Spain, and the Czech Republic. In 2002 he initiated the effort to establish the College of Design Prague Institute and in 2004/2005 served as the first Institute Director. His research has focused on improving design education. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles related to the impact of visualization media on design and the role of metacognition on the development creativity abilities. His most recent teaching has been focused on introductory graduate design studios, courses on digital media in design, and an urban design studio and seminar offered through the NCState Prague Institute. In 2009 he was made a Fellow in the Council ofEducators in Landscape Architecture.