With four massive hurricanes impacting Louisiana between 2005 and 2008, the state has been forced to face the challenges of a changing landscape in both urban and rural areas. Addressing issues such as land subsidence, rise of sea level, loss of wetlands and increased storm activity have become more urgent with every passing year. The [...]
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LSU’s Office of Community Design and Development Receives $25,000 Foundation for Louisiana Grant
The Foundation for Louisiana recently awarded $25,000 to the LSU School of Architecture’s Office of Community Design and Development, or OCDD, to conduct a 10-month public service project and pilot study, “Advancing Louisiana Small Town and Rural Community Development.” The study will take place in northeast Louisiana, focusing on the Lake Providence and Tallulah corridor, [...]
Service Learning Takes LSU Art & Design Students to South Africa
While many of their fellow students were soaking up the last rays of summer before the start of the fall semester, a group of students from the LSU College of Art and Design were working in South Africa as part of a service-learning project that brought them to a rural township south of Cape Town [...]
LSU Architecture Students Facilitate “Thanksgiving in the Park” for Gentilly Neighborhood in New Orleans
The LSU Office of Community Design and Development (OCDD) and a group of fourth‐year students from the LSU School of Architecture will help facilitate a neighborhood community visioning day in New Orleans’ Indian Village in Gentilly. “Thanksgiving in the Park,” will be held this Wednesday, November 11, from 2‐7 PM under a large tent in [...]
LSU Students Make their Mark on McComb, MS
While many LSU students spent the month of May regrouping from the spring semester and gearing up for summer, a dedicated group of students from the College of Art and Design were busy working in McComb, Mississippi on an urban redevelopment plan for the city’s historic downtown district. The project was part of a partnership [...]
LSU Architecture Program Partners with Bethel Colony South to Open Home Repair Business by Women, for Women
Home Works, a new home repair service and training program by women and for women, opens its doors in New Orleans this weekend thanks, in large part, to efforts from the LSU School of Architecture’s Office of Community Design and Development (OCDD). Home Works will officially open for business with an Open House this Saturday, [...]
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LSU School of Architecture Professor J. Michael Desmond’s Book Details Origins of LSU Campus
- Director Bradley Cantrell is Awarded the 2013-2014 Rome Prize
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College of Art + Design CxC Coordinator Reads Poetry, Gathers Poets on the National Scene
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Faculty Wins Minneapolis Creative City Challenge
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RRSLA @ the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation Annual Meeting
