Abdullah Akpinar
Assistant Professor, DDes
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I am a licensed landscape architect who works in Department of Landscape Architecture at Adnan Menderes University as an assistant professor. As a motivated and successful academician who holds PHD, my long term goals are to secure a research and teaching position at an academic institution and to become an influential professor in the industry with an area of interest are human health and built/natural systems in a geospatial and statistical context, open and green spaces, greenway/green infrastructure design. Foci include parks/recreational area design, planning and design of natural and built environments, health and well-being benefits of green spaces, healing gardens, landscape design, Geographic Information Systems, GeoDesign, design thinking
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Work
experience
Assitant Professor in Department of Landscape Architecture, ADU, Turkey
2014-present
I have been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture since Agust 2014.
Languages
Turkish (Native)
English (Full professional proficiency)
Research Associate in Department of Landscape Architecture, ADU, Turkey
2013 - 2014
I have joined Department of Landscape Architecture as a faculty between July 2013 - July 2014.
TA in Department of Landscape Architecture, Clemson University
2008 - 2010
I worked as teaching assistant in Department of Landscape Architecture at Clemson University. I taught Basic Design to freshmen students with Professor Arthi Roa. I also worked with Dr. Umit Yilmaz to teach Landscape Architecture Design Fundamentals to sophomore students
Intern in Municipality of Melikgazi in Turkey
June 2005- August 2005
I designed two parks and made plans for extension and renovation of several recreational areas. I also prepared landscape projects for two newly constructed apartment complexes for Municipality of Melikgazi in Turkey
Education
Washington State University, Pullman, WA, PhD in Design
2010 - 2013
PhD Thesis: Assessing the Associations among Green Space Type, Structure, General Mental Health and General Health Employing the BRFSS and the US National Land Cover Data
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, M.S. in Landscape Architecture
2008 - 2010
M.S. Thesis Project: “High Performing Greenway Design: How to Connect a Community through Regional Open Space Systems”
Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey, B.S. in Landscape Architecture
2002 - 2006
B.S. Thesis: “Inhabitant Satisfaction from Urban Recreational Areas”