UTA landscape architect creating sustainable plant installations through ‘polycultures’ of plants that work together
Ecological environmentLandscape architect David Hopman isn’t only installing plants on a sparse patch of ground just west of the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs Building: he is shaping a new way of thinking about how and what to plant. The associate professor of landscape architecture recently returned to The University of Texas at Arlington following a semester of faculty development leave that included an important collaboration with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth. There, Hopman worked with BRIT to hone his theory of polyculture planting