Ken McCown serves as the Director of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Downtown Design Center, and has taught architecture, landscape architecture, sustainability and urban design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cal Poly Pomona, Arizona State University and the University of Tennessee where he was the Chair of the landscape architecture program.
He earned architecture and landscape architecture degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he focused upon urban design and regionalism in architectural design and environmental/ecological art. Ken collaborates on interdisciplinary urban design and environmental art projects centering upon regenerative design and place-making in communities. His collaborative projects include: ASLA award-winning Taj Mahal National Park and Cultural Heritage District; and Barrio Chino in Panama City, Panama for UNESCO.
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