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Board of Regents Grant Provides LSU College with State-of-the-Art 3D Scanner and Fabrication Unit
A recent $70,000 Regents grant has provided the College of Art + Design with a state-of-the-art scanner and fabrication unit currently in use by students and faculty to produce three dimensional (3D) models in a variety of materials. This grant was a collaboration with the Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC)…
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LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Garners Multiple National Honors
The Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture recently garnered multiple national honors; the number one ranking of its undergraduate program by DesignIntelligence for its third consecutive year and the number three ranking (in a tie with Cornell University) for its graduate program. At the annual meeting of the American Society…
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LSU Student Chapter of ASLA holds first Park(ing) Day
Park(ing) Day is an annual worldwide event where artists, designers and citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks. LSU Student Chapter of ASLA held its first Park(ing) Day event this week in order to highlight the importance of green space and rethink the way streets are used as…
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Landscape Architect, Peter Walker Speaks October 3 at 5:00 p.m.
The LSU College of Art + Design Distinguished Lecture Series presents landscape architect, Peter Walker, Wednesday, October 3 at 5:00 p.m. in the first floor lecture hall (RM.103) of the Art + Design Building. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design,…
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Metropolis Magazine Features Work by Landscape Architecture Professor and Architecture Alumni
It took seven years, but the new Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center in the Broadmoor section of New Orleans has risen from the ravages of Katrina and LSU landscape architecture professors and architecture alumni helped. After the levees breached, the original 1993 building was swamped with two feet…
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Students, Faculty and Alumni of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Recognized in 2012 ASLA Awards
LSU’s College of Art & Design is pleased to announce that the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture students, faculty, and alumni scored significant recognition in the 2012 awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), announced in late August. Joshua Brooks and Chad Caletka, BLA 2012, each won…
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LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Names Associate Professor Bradley E. Cantrell as New Director
BATON ROUGE – LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture has selected Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator Bradley E. Cantrell to serve as the school’s new director. Pending approval from the LSU System Board of Supervisors, Cantrell will assume directorship of the school effective in January 2013. “It is an…
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LSU Names Alkis P. Tsolakis New Dean of College of Art & Design
BATON ROUGE – Alkis P. Tsolakis, professor of architecture and acting director of the art department at Drury University in Springfield, Mo., has been selected to serve as the new dean of the LSU College of Art & Design, pending approval of the LSU Board of Supervisors. “I am pleased to…
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Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Names Annual Award Winners
The Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture recently announced the names of its award winning students. Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) candidate Martin Moser and Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) candidate Peter Summerlin each received the Dean’s Medal for which the recipients demonstrated excellence in a broad range of criteria.…
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Landscape Architecture Students Create Design for WBRZ’s $20,000 Yard Makeover Contest Winner
LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture students may well have been just as pleased as WBRZ contest winner Shane Mike of Denham Springs to participate in the station’s recent $20,000 Yard makeover contest. The contest enabled the students to manage a substantial extracurricular project and make great business contacts…
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Landscape Architect Lake Douglas’s book, Public Spaces, Private Gardens wins the F. Kemper and Leila Williams Prize
“Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans” by LSU professor Lake Douglas won this year’s F. Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, offered by The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association, or LHA. Douglas accepted the award at the LHA’s annual meeting in…
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LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Impact Felt Through Educational Efforts, Relationship with Alumni
To say that landscape architecture is a growing field would be an understatement. Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor spaces and the improvements thereon to achieve environmental, behavioral or aesthetic outcomes. The practice involves research and investigation of existing social, ecological and geological conditions and processes in the landscape,…