David D Hopman, M.L.A.

 

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture

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  • Demystifying Native Plants Polycultures 

    Hopman, David, ASLA (University of Texas at Arlington, 2023)
    Landscape architects have an important duty to be forward leaning stewards of the environment in the development process. There is also an increasingly important imperative to reverse the ecological decline that has ...

  • The Ideology of Critical Regionalism as a Teaching and Design Resource for the Next 100 Years of CELA 

    Hopman, David, ASLA (University of Texas at Arlington, 2020)
    This addresses the future viability of Critical Regionalism as an ongoing ideology and aesthetic construct. Regionalist trends in the early 20th century, around the time that CELA was founded, and the theory of Critical ...

  • Future Viable Plant Palettes for Metropolitan Areas 

    Hopman, David, ASLA (University of Texas at Arlington, 2016)

  • Ecologically Performative Landscapes and Water Management 

    Hopman, David, ASLA (University of Texas at Arlington, 2007)
    Performative theory has been applied to many facets of social theory including economic theory, sexual orientation, and regionalism in architecture. Simply stated, it is the notion that a thing becomes what it purports to ...

  • City of Arlington, Texas, Blackland Prairie Preserve Master Plan 

    Hopman, David, ASLA; DFL Group LLC (City of Arlington, Texas, 2013)
    The City of Arlington acquired the Blackland Prairie site in 1998 after a group of concerned citizens identified its value as possibly the last blackland prairie remnant site in the city. Encouraged by the Arlington ...

  • University of Texas at Arlington Extensive Green Roof 

    Hopman, David, ASLA (University of Texas at Arlington, 2011)
    The University of Texas at Arlington (UT-Arlington) installed the first extensive green roof in the Dallas / Fort Worth area in April of 2008. The roof was researched, designed, and is being managed by UT-Arlington associate ...

  • Towards a "critical regionalism" for rapidly developing areas of Texas. 

    Hopman, David DuMez (Landscape Architecture, 1998-12)
    The published intellectual discourse on "Critical Regionalism" is more prolific in the literature of architecture and planning than that of landscape architecture. As a result, the existing parameters used to define ...