Dr. Abdulmueen Bogis
Education
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA [2021] Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture and Design Research
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA [2018] Watershed Management Graduate Certificate
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA [2015] Master’s of Landscape Architecture (accredited)
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia [2008] Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture
Graduation Project: “Valley of Fatmah Cultural and Recreational Village”. [Awarded the 1st Prize in the Urban Heritage Competition]
Contact
bogis@ou.edu
About
Dr. Mueen Bogis is a visionary artist and landscape architect, passionately dedicated to cultivating sustainable urban environments through the fusion of art and science. With an unwavering commitment to community engagement and harnessing the power of green infrastructure, he endeavors to build resilient cities that thrive on the harmony between nature and humanity. Mueen’s journey has been marked by self-motivation and an insatiable quest for knowledge, resulting in a remarkable career spanning 14 years, encompassing both professional and academic excellence.
Armed with a doctoral degree and a collection of 19 prestigious accolades, including recognition from esteemed institutions like ASLA, Land8, Stanley Abbott, Virginia Tech, and The Digital Landscape Architecture (DLA), Mueen stands as a multifaceted creative designer at the forefront of his field.
Dr. Bogis’ pioneering research centers around the ” Ecological and Aesthetic Factors Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment”, a powerful economic approach to understanding how humans make trade-offs. Through the ingenious application of the Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE), also known as Choice-Based Conjoint (CBC), he unveils the intricate interplay between ecological preservation and aesthetic beauty. His work empowers landscape architects with a potent tool to minimize ecological losses in favor of aesthetically pleasing landscapes, thereby advancing the frontiers of visual preference research further into the domain of empirical studies.
Over the past decade, Dr. Bogis has immersed himself in an array of transformative projects and research endeavors. His areas of expertise and interest span to water-sensitive design, cultural ecosystem services, resilient infrastructure, climate change adaptation, biomimicry, the confluence of landscape and art, cultural landscapes, social and environmental justice, Islamic Garden and Art, participatory planning and design, community engagement, and placemaking.
For design portfolio visit: https://bogis.myportfolio.com/home
Research Highlights
Bogis, A., & Kim (2023). A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit People’s Preferences for Semi-Arid Riparian Corridors: A Multinomial Logit Model [Accepted for publication]. The Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture JoDLA. doi:10.14627/537740053
Bogis, A. M. (2021). Ecological and Aesthetic Factors Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment [Doctoral Dissertation]. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
Bogis, A., Bork, D., & Miller, P., (2021). The Suitability of Green Infrastructure Strategies to the Arid Middle East: A Design Feasibility Case Study from Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Architecture and Planning. doi: 10.51483/IJARP.1.1.2021.9-18
Bogis, A., & Kim, M, (2021). Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit Preferences Between Ecological Quality and Aesthetic: An Economic Method to Study How People Make Trade-Off. Paper presented at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). https://thecela.org
Bogis, A., Bork, D., Miller, P., (March, 2018). The Suitability of Green Infrastructure Strategies to the Arid Middle East: A Design Feasibility Case Study from Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. Research poster presented at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA),
Blacksburg, VA. https://thecela.org
Amaral, J. R., Woodward, L., Elliott-Engel, J., Bush, S. A., Travis, E., Bogis, A., & Ramalingam, N. (May, 2017). Serving our Community: Perceptions of University Student Community Service. Poster session presented at the national meeting of the American Association of
Agricultural Education, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Ongoing Research
Bogis, A., Cheng, W., Broussard, G., Crites, J., Naftchali, I., Niknejad, A., Pace, J., Salazar, K., Young, N (March, 2024). NASA Microclimate Mitigation Project for the Vulnerable Community of Oklahoma City: Case Study of JFK Neighborhood. Paper to be presented at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), ST. Louis, Missouri.
Bogis, A., & Kim (2024). Differences in Environmental Preferences Towards Ecological Landscape: A Latent Class Analysis [Manuscript in
Preparation].
Bogis, A., & Kim (2025). Visual Choice Experiment to Minimize Trading-off Ecological Landscape for Maintained Landscape in an Arid Urban
Riparian Corridor: Hierarchical Bayes Estimation [Manuscript in preparation].