CAPLA Leadership

Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Program Chair, MS Urban Planning Program
Chair, Council of Faculty Members

Arlie Adkins is an associate professor with appointments in CAPLA's School of Landscape Architecture and Planning and the Health Promotion Sciences Department within the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. His research focuses on understanding the interconnectedness of transportation equity, affordable housing, and various health and safety disparities related to urban transportation systems. He teaches transportation planning, planning theory, and the planning master's capstone studio.

Associate Professor of Architecture
Faculty Advisor, MS Arch Urban Design and Independent Concentrations
Biosphere 2 Faculty Innovative Teaching Fellow
Vice Chair, Council of Faculty Members

Susannah Dickinson is an architect and Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. Her work explores the relationship that computational design and fabrication processes can have in the development of more ecologically responsive environments. This stems from a background in digital processes, parametric modeling, BIM, and digital fabrication, largely gained through years of professional experience in the offices of Frank O. Gehry, Los Angeles and SHoP Architects, New York.

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design

Eduardo Guerrero received his professional architecture degree from the University The Republic in Santiago Chile and earned a Master of Urban Design degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona, Eduardo practiced architecture and urban design in Chile and in California. Eduardo has designed and built hundreds of social housing units in the Atacama Desert region, designed prototypical houses for Habitat for Humanity, and selected properties for future housing developments.

Assistant Professor of Planning and Sustainable Built Environments
Faculty Research Associate, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy

Ladd Keith, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning and a faculty research associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. An urban planner by training, he has over a decade of experience planning for climate change with diverse stakeholders in cities across the U.S. His research explores heat policy and governance to help communities increase their heat resilience.

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative Fellow

Kenneth J. Kokroko PLA ASLA is a landscape architect with unique experience leading a community-based planning and design process for park, open space and neighborhood planning projects. His research background in anthropology, environmental science and community development brings a fresh, holistic perspective to his design approach.  

Senior Lecturer in Architecture

Oscar Lopez graduated from Arizona State University with both his Undergraduate (2009) and Master’s degree in Architecture (2012). During his time at ASU Oscar also received a minor in Religious Studies and Conflict. This area of study would later become the topic of his thesis and the winning proposal for a research travel grant (Class of ’77 Travel Grant) that sent him to Northern Ireland to study conflict and living in contention and the mediating role of architecture and memory.

Associate Professor of Architecture
Program Chair, Object and Spatial Design emphasis areas, BA Design Arts & Practices (BA.DAP)
MS Arch Faculty Advisor, Critical Spatial Practice Concentration
Faculty Affiliate, School of Art
Faculty Affiliate, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory GIDP, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Affiliate, Arizona Institutes for Resilience
University of Arizona Inclusive Leadership Fellow

Beth Weinstein’s practice and research move between the architectural and the performative, and across scales from drawing to performance-installations to urban interventions, investigating spatial manifestations and invisibilities of political, environmental, and labor issues. Her practice-based doctoral research explored how performances of spatial labor, employing architecture’s instruments (text, drawings and models), can render ‘sensible’ (in)visibilities around architectures of internment.