Firm Principals
THOMAS A LOCKETT, FASLA - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Principal in Charge of Design
California State License #1551
Texas State License #1070
CLARB National Certification #1089
California State Polytechnic University - BSLA
Mr. Lockett has been the owner and principal partner in Land Images, Landscape Architects since 1977. During that time period he has been responsible for coordination of planning, design, construction documentation, and construction services for a diversity of projects ranging in scale from Regional Parks and Universities to historical renovation of residential and small scale institutional projects.
Mr. Lockett has served as Master Open Space Planner and Landscape Architect for California Institute of Technology for the past 24 years at Land Images and five years prior to that as a part of a previous association, and for Loyola Marymount University since 1978.
In recognition of his significant contributions to the profession, both as an educator and in terms of his portfolio of executed works, Mr. Lockett was invested as a fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1994.
In 1995, Mr. Lockett was appointed by Governor Wilson to a four year term as one of three professional members of the California State Board of Landscape Architects.
Mr. Lockett is a member of the Teaching Faculty in the Landscape Architecture Department at UCLA Extension which provides a certified four year professional curriculum for approximately 140 students. He has been associated with the program since its inception in 1977 as a design instructor. He has been Faculty Chair, Head of the Design Subcommittee, and from 1986 until 1994, served as Head of the Landscape Architecture Program.
Mr. Lockett was graduated from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona in 1971 with a degree in Landscape Architecture. Concurrent with Landscape Architecture, he had a minor in Urban and Regional Planning and took elective courses in Architecture at San Luis Obispo. Postgraduate study was done in Environmental Science and Geography at Cal State Dominguez Hills and in Resort Planning and Golf Course Design at Harvard University. Mr. Lockett also has taken courses in passive Solar Site Planning and Design from the University of Minnesota.
MICHAEL C. WILLIAMS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Partner
California State License #1436
CLARB National Certification #1070
California State Polytechnic University - Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture
Mr. Williams has been the Principal in charge of project development for Land Images, Landscape Architects since joining the firm in 1979. His responsibilities include conceptual and detail sitework design, consultant coordination, oversight of all construction documentation and monitoring of construction installation.
During his tenure with the firm, he has been responsible for over 50 million dollars in landscape site improvements at six High Schools, four Universities, over 50 Commercial projects, and several Park and Recreational areas.
Mr. Williams has also served on the faculty in the Landscape Architecture Extension program at UCLA. teaching Planting Design, Methods and Materials of Construction, and Construction Drawing.