Antonio Marshall, B.L.A. '00 Advance Planning Group - Planning and Urban Design 5750 Major Boulevard, Suite 400 Orlando, Fla. 32819 www.jacobs.com antonio.marshall@jacobs.com 407/903-5359

In his own words:

The most important thing I learned in school was the fundamentals of landscape architecture and urban design.

If I could go to school again, I’d be sure to have more communication with my professors as to what I want to accomplish with my degree, so that I could explore my options and do the “leg work” of preparation in school.

The most satisfying thing about my current work is the ability to travel to different cities around the world, and to also work on various types of projects.

Right now, I’m working on urban villas in Abu Dhabi, United Emirates, a mixed–use urban development in Alys Beach, Florida, and the Langley Research Center at NASA.

My favorite project is Fort Bliss Army National Guard in El Paso, TX, because of the challenge of making the new developments LEED certified from a landscape architecture point of view.

Words of wisdom:

We walk forward.
We ride a bicycle forward.
We drive forward.
We do this to see where we are going, not where we've been.
Put your past behind you and move forward.

-Ken Larson

About Antonio Marshall:

Think golf and you might imagine madras-clad country club duffers wheeling and dealing on the green. Antonio Marshall has another vision for the game, one that includes inner city youth and transforms the traditional course into a rich environment for learning and play. The seeds for developing an alternative course were planted by experiences within the School of Architecture, where Marshall was the first African American graduate of the landscape architecture program. He later refined and tested his ideas in a virtual 3-D computer environment while working towards a double masters at Virginia Tech.

Currently he is a site planner with Jacob’s Advance Planning Group in Orlando, Florida, working on planning and urban design projects all around the world. After hours, he is patenting components of his design as a first step in making his alternative course a reality. Because the ideas are in development, Marshall is wary of being too specific, although he did say the course would “combine other sports and activities that kids know really well with the game, in a physical way and in a thematic way. It’s regal; it’s a regal concept.”