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Rob Holmes Named 2013 Marie M. Bickham Chair
We would like to welcome Rob Holmes as the 2013 Marie M. Bickham Chair. Rob will be bringing his research in operative and logistical landscapes to the design studio, seminar courses, and collaborating with faculty and students throughout the Spring Semester. Rob will be leading Design Week this Spring and…
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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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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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New Book by LSU Landscape Architecture Professor Max Z. Conrad Recounts Birth of Landscape Architecture in Louisiana
LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture recently announced the publication of a new book by one of its faculty members that recounts the birth of the profession of landscape architecture in Louisiana. “Landscape Architecture and New Orleans: Room for Only One?” is a memoir by LSU Landscape Architecture Professor…
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LSU Professors Launch Digital Media Book for Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers
Brad Cantrell and Wes Michaels, both assistant professors at the LSU top-ranked Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, have published a new book about the use of digital media for landscape renderings. Entitled Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture, the book explores the theory and application of computer visualization techniques to…
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Landscape Architecture Projects Hone in on Coastal Sustainability in Two Louisiana Communities
A professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is involved in two projects that are aimed at helping coastal communities of south Louisiana rebuild wetlands and develop recreational uses for waterways that have been damaged during recent hurricanes. Bruce Sharky is working on both projects through the Louisiana…
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Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Names World-Renowned Landscape Architect to Endowed Chair
When the faculty in the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture set out to fill the Marie H. Bickham Endowed Chair for the 2009-2010 academic year they wanted to find someone who embodied the spirit of excellence for which the nation’s No. 2-ranked landscape architecture program is known. They found…
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Landscape Architecture Professor Wins National Award for Study of Unique Landscapes
An assistant professor in the LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture has received a prestigious award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) for her study of three unique landscapes – including New Orleans’ Lower 9th ward – and the people who inhabit them. Kristi Dykema, who joined the…
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LSU Landscape Architecture Professor Wins Fulbright
(Baton Rouge) –The LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce that assistant professor Wes Michaels is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for 2008-2009. Michaels has received a Fulbright to conduct a semester-long research project at the Life Sciences University in Tartu, Estonia. Beginning in January,…