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Director Bradley Cantrell is Awarded the 2013-2014 Rome Prize
Bradley Cantrell, Director and Associate Professor, has been awarded the 2013 Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture for his proposal “Synthetic and Responsive Ecologies.” The American Academy in Rome awards the Rome Prize to a select group of artists and scholars, after an application process that begins in the fall of…
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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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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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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 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 Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Remains at the Top of DesignIntelligence Rankings in 2011
LSU’s football team isn’t the only top-ranked group on campus, as LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture once again ranks atop lists of the best programs in the U.S., according to national rankings released this month by DesignIntelligence, the leading journal of the design professions. The school’s undergraduate landscape…
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LSU Landscape Architecture Students Earn Five American Society of Landscape Architects Student Awards
Students in LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture recently garnered five national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, or ASLA, Student Award program—the most of any other university with students who submitted work. An award presentation ceremony and reception will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the ASLA Annual…
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Multidisciplinary Project Involving LSU, Princeton Personnel to Debut at Venice Biennale
A collaborative project of architects, landscape architects, engineers and coastal scientists from LSU and architects from the Princeton University School of Architecture will be unveiled this week at the Venice Biennale, the largest and most prestigious art and design exhibition in the world. “The Mississippi Delta: Constructing with Water” project…
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College of Art & Design Students Take Home Awards from CxC
The College of Art and Design is pleased to announce that several of its students have received awards from the Communications across the Curriculum program (CxC), including a Dean’s Award scholarship for excellence at the recent CxC Digital Media Fest. The annual event celebrates LSU students who are producing intellectual…
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Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture and Dean of Art and Design Ranked Among Best in U.S.
Dean David Cronrath of the College of Art and Design has been named one of the Most Admired Educators of 2010 by Design Intelligence, the leading journal of the design professions. In its annual issue, the magazine also ranked the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture among the top…
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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…