Tony Barnes Retires

The College of Architecture, Planning and Design recognizes Alton “Tony” Barnes for providing leadership, curriculum innovation and teaching rigor to the K-State landscape architecture program during the past 40+ years.

Tony received a bachelor of landscape architecture from the University of Georgia and a master of landscape architecture from the University of Illinois. He joined the K-State landscape architecture faculty in 1967, leaving in 1971 to pursue private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. He returned to K-State in 1976 as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 1989.

Because of an extensive knowledge base related to landscape architecture, Tony has been the person who has probably taught, at one time or another, just about every landscape architecture course the program has offered. He has willingly stepped in to fill curriculum holes wherever and whenever they occurred. From 1993-1995, Tony served as interim head of the landscape architecture program and from 1998-2001 as associate department head and director of the MLA program.

Since 1971, Tony has been a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, was advanced to ASLA fellowship in 1999 and in 2004 received the ASLA Jot D. Carpenter Medal for sustained and significant contributions to landscape architectural education. He has been a member of the roster of visiting evaluators for the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board and is currently a member and chair elect of the LAAB. Tony has served on numerous ASLA committees as well as those related to the development of the landscape architecture registration exam for the Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Board.

A founding member of the college’s highly successful mock interview and DesignExpo career fair activities, Tony has also been a member of many college committees, including international studies, promotion and tenure, dean search, planning and technology, as well as many KSU committees and Faculty Senate.

Tony’s creative teaching abilities and wise counsel will be sorely missed by the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning; the College of Architecture, Planning and Design; and Kansas State University.