Professor Thomas Sammons is a tenured professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Architecture and is the Director of the Community Design Workshop at School of Architecture and Design.He was the Director of the School of Architecture and Design from 2012 to 2019. He has over 38 years of experience teaching Architecture and Design. He was named Distinguished Professor for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2005. He holds the Contractors Educational Trust Fund/BORSF Professor in Art and Architecture Chair. He received his Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Kentucky in 1982 and received his Masters of Architecture from Cornell University in 1987. The Workshop is in its 26th year and works with neighborhoods, towns, and urban districts to develop a vision for their community. In addition, he directs additional faculty exploring issues in urban design, landscape design, planning and architectural projects for the surrounding communities. He was awarded a Fulbright Hays Fellowship for study in China, in which he participated in 2004. In addition to his usual instruction in architecture, he has taught ARCH 470 in Paris pertaining to Urbanism, Architectural History, and Contemporary Design during the summer 2005. In 2008 he also taught in the International Study Program in Florence, Italy, specifically looking at Piazzas and urban form (DSGN 474). He also teaches ARCH 530 History and Theory of Urban Forms. These architecture studios and lectures classes are directly related to his research of urban form and the study of the contemporary city.He has also secured a number of grants for the university’s Community Design Workshop (CDW) as well as numerous scientific equipment grants. The workshop has completed 100 projects in its tenure, and the total amount of grants has exceeded $4 million, including a $1.5 million for a bike path that connects the research center with the university. The projects range from small towns to large-scale infrastructure projects including interstates, in-town boulevards, and bike paths.