Teaching long has been an integral part of Olin’s career; he began in the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington with Rich Haag in 1970-1972. In 1976, at the invitation of Dean Sir Peter Shepheard, Olin joined Bob Hanna in the landscape architecture department at the University of Pennsylvania. It was at this time that fellow landscape architect and Professor Ian McHarg’s ecological planning and overlay method of design was redefining practice and teaching. Over the years, Olin endorsed a field study method that, in addition to ecology, drew from ethnography, geography and history