Lewis T. May, FASLA, Executive Vice President

With over four decades of extensive planning, urban design and landscape architecture experience throughout the North America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Lewis May is one of the nation’s most high profile master plan designers.

Lewis received both a Bachelor and Master of Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University. He then served as a Major in the United States Army, after which he joined the nationally renowned, Houston-based Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS, later CRSS) where he directed the global planning and landscape architecture studio for more than two decades. In 1991, he was named Director of Design of the international planning, design and construction firm.  Lewis joined the Houston office of PageSoutherlandPage in 1996 and, as Director of Planning, has collaborated with each of the offices on projects throughout the U.S. and around the world.

Beginning with CRS and continuing throughout his career, Lewis has had a significant impact on the Middle East with the planning of dozens of cities and urban centers, such as five new town plans for ARAMCO, 21 communities for Internal Security Forces Housing Projects, seven sites for the Peace Sun | Peace Shield Master Plan Base Installation Strategies and master plans for cities such as Accra, Ghana, Jeddah North, Ruwais, Al Foah, Abu Dhabi and Dubai Municipality. He authored the first text related to Middle Eastern Landscape Architecture, the award-winning Landscape Architecture in Saudi Arabia.

His extensive portfolio includes over 300 campus facility master plans at prestigious institutions around the world such as Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon, The United States Military Academy, University of Virginia, Templeton College at Oxford University, University of Petroleum and Minerals, King Abdul-Aziz Military Academy, the University of Houston System and multiple master plans for the Universidad de Monterrey. Internationally his work can be found in Korea, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Nigeria, UAE, Egypt, Brunei, Yemen and Mexico.

Lewis has won over 100 awards for his writing, landscape architecture, planning and design. He has lectured on planning, architecture, urban design and landscape architecture at numerous universities and professional associations, both in the United States and Europe. He was recognized by the American Institute of Architects at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1993 as “one of the outstanding landscape architects and planners in America.”

Lewis has held several teaching positions, including at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, where he founded and served as the Director of the Center for Ecology, and he continues to serve as a visiting critic / adjunct faculty in the architecture programs at Texas Tech University, the University of Hawaii, and the Universidad de Monterrey. He has served on two policy committees for the Baker Institute at Rice University—the Texas Center for Society and Health Policy and the Center for Population Health.