Ron Henderson FASLA Ron Henderson FASLA

Professor Henderson is an international leader in landscape architecture design, history, research, and education.

His broad range of research includes: The Driverless City Project, gardens and contemporary urbanism in China and Japan, arboriculture and horticulture practices, botanical drawing, and landscape-based urbanism. He is the author of 30 Trees and Why Landscape Architects Love Them (Birkhauser, 2023), The Gardens of Suzhou (University of Pennsylvania, 2012) and numerous articles on landscape architecture and urbanism. He co-translated into English (with Kou Huaiyun of Tongji University) Peng Yigang’s seminal book, Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden.

Professor Henderson is invited to lecture frequently with recent talks at Xi'an University of Architecture and Engineering, Nashville Tree Foundation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Harvard University, Tongji University, Beijing Forestry University, Oslo AHO, ETSAB Barcelona, Chiba University, Boston University, DESIGNxRI, US National Arboretum, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Graham Foundation, among others. He has held previous appointments at Harvard, Pennsylvania State University, Tsinghua University, and Rhode Island School of Design. Professor Henderson holds a courtesy appointment at Distinguished Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University. He is a former Senior Fellow of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

He and his students have received global recognition for their work.