J. Timothy Keller
J. Timothy Keller is a founding principal of Land and Community Associates and professor emeritus in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Design at Iowa State University. Keller, a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, has coauthored many publications focusing on landscape conservation issues, including National Register of Historic Places Bulletin 18 How To Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes and National Register of Historic Places Bulletin 30 Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Districts, as well as contributing to both editions of Saving America’s Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation (John Hopkins University Press, 1989;1997).
Mr. Keller, who holds a BA with Distinction in Anthropology and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, undertook postgraduate studies at the Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the Public Service Award from the US Department of the Interior for his contributions to the field of historic landscape preservation. Keller is recognized for his award-winning publications and projects addressing distinct cultural communities, historic landscapes and transportation corridors. A Richer Heritage, Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century (University of North Carolina Press, Raleigh, 2004) in which Keller co-authored with Genevieve P. Keller the chapter “Preserving Important Rural Landscapes,” received the Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award (2005) from the Society of Architectural Historians.
Keller, who served as chair of the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture from 1994 – 2007 and the ISU Department of Community and Regional Planning from 2002–2007, co-instructed the Savanna Traveling Studio, taught theory and criticism seminars and co-instructed award winning community design and advocacy studios. From 1994 through 2014, he served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than $15 million in externally funded research projects. The Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning project, a model public/private/NGO partnership for which he was co-principal investigator, has brought community directed design to more than 250 rural Iowa communities. This continuing program received the US Federal Highway Administration Award for Environmental Excellence in 2004 and the Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association in 2006.
Keller, who is a past president of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, has directed a variety of significant landscape planning and conservation projects throughout the US and consulted on projects overseas. Many of these projects have received state and national recognition, including three Honor and four Merit Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects. As an advocacy planner to special cultural groups, he has lived with and advised the Amanites of the Amana Colonies in Iowa and the water-based community of Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay, worked with the Plain Sect communities of Lancaster County, PA, and assisted the diverse cultural community in the Hanalei Valley of Kauai. Currently Keller serves on the Albemarle County Planning Commission and continues in active professional, academic, and public practice from Charlottesville, VA.