Ron Henderson Ron Henderson

Ron Henderson FASLA is Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism and Director of Research for the Alphawood Arboretum at Illinois Institute of Technology. His research and teaching is broad—the natural history of cities, spatial and cultural expression of trees, equitable access to water and other urban assets, urban design implications of driverless vehicles, and gardens and urbanism of China and Japan.

His students have received recent recognition for their design work and leadership from the American Society of Landscape Architects, Landscape Architecture Foundation, Black Landscape Network, United Council of Higher Education in Haiti, Friends of the Parks, and other regional and national organizations.

He has been a leader in over $4Min recent research and funding from the National Science Foundation, Nayar Prize, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, and others. He is the author of 30 Trees (Birkhauser), The Gardens of Suzhou (University of Pennsylvania Press), and over seventy book chapters and articles.

His professional practice, LIRIO Landscape Architecture, is recognized for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (USA), Elizabethan Theater at Chateau d’Hardelot (France), Shanghai Expo Qingyuan Roof Garden (China), and other award-winning cultural and public landscapes in Asia, Europe, and North America. Projects on which LIRIO has participated have planted over 900,000 trees.