Richard Eugene Toth, former faculty at the Penn’s department of landscape architecture in what is now the School of Design, died on January 3. He was 80.

He graduated with a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1963. He then joined the faculty at Penn, where he taught until he returned to Harvard, joining their faculty in 1968. After teaching there for five years, he joined Utah State University’s faculty in 1973 and served as the chair of the department of landscape architecture & environmental planning. He retired after 50 years of teaching in 2014.

Mr. Toth is survived by his wife, Diana; his children, Justin (Kathleen Weron) and Erica (Greg Walker); and his grandchildren, Nicholas, Andrew, Wren, William and Tristan.