Graham Young joined the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pretoria in 1992. He currently co-ordinates the BSc Landscape Architecture programme as well as the Earth Studies stream for all disciplines in the Department of Architecture. He teaches 1st year Earth Studies and 3rd year Landscape Design Theory, and is the 3rd year landscape architecture studio master. He also teaches Landscape Urbanism to Honours students, and mentors 5th year M(Prof) thesis students. He has been a visiting studio critic at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town. In 2011 he was invited to the University of Rhode Island as its Distinguished International Scholar, where he delivered a series of lectures on his design work in South Africa and served as studio critic in the landscape architecture programme.

Graham Young’s research interests, within the context of South African landscape achitecture, include urban ecology, ecological design, landscape urbanism, and visual impact assessment. He is currently completing a master’s thesis, A critical analysis of the relationship between commemoration, identity and landscape design in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Isivivane, Freedom Park, a case study.