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Louise Cheetham Bordelon continued to a PhD at LSU in the Department of Geography & Anthropology. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Louise returned to the United States and now teaches in the MLA program at University of Colorado – Denver. Her research interests are centered on cultural landscapes, continuous networks of biodiversity, and visual thinking/research by design.

Tara Titone (BLA 2002) currently works at the Center for Planning Excellence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she has been for the past five years. While studying landscape architecture at LSU, Tara was selected to attend the summer internship program at EDSA’s Ft. Lauderdale office, where she accepted a full-time position upon graduation. Tara worked for EDSA for a total of six years before accepting a position at Michael van Valkenburgh Associates, where she worked for two years before moving to Baton Rouge.

Claire Witter Hempel (BLA 2002) is the principal in charge of the Austin office of Design Workshop. She joined the firm in 2011 with a Master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin. She oversees a wide range of projects including community master plans, urban design efforts, and streetscapes. Claire says she owes the direction of her career path to the firm roots of valuable education that she received at LSU.

Claire’s Portfolio

Adam McGovern is a practice area supervisor at EHRA, Inc., in Houston, Texas. He is a registered landscape architect in Texas and Louisiana. Adam is responsible for managing landscape architecture projects from conceptual design through construction observation. Adam works closely with the multiple disciplines at EHRA, including public infrastructure, transportation, hydraulics and hydrology, land planning, land development, surveying, and construction phase services to serve city, county, state, and other governmental agencies along with private single-family, retail, and commercial development clients.

Adam has accumulated a wide range of experience on diverse project types including parks and trail master planning and design, low impact development, comprehensive amenity design and development for master-planned residential communities, 3-D rendering and visualization, and urban design.

Adam’s Portfolio

John Perrone (BLA 1979) is a licensed landscape architect in Florida and Louisiana. He is a division manager for the City of Orlando Parks where he has worked for 27 years. He has served as an adjunct professor of landscape design and construction at Valencia College in Orlando for 23 years. John specializes in park and playground design, construction management, grounds maintenance, urban forestry, and the design of public facilities including ADA and CPTED criteria.

Jeff Smith spiraled into his career via several campuses while studying science and biology, philosophy and religion, landscape architecture, fine art, and, finally, stained glass. When he transferred to LSU to study landscape architecture in 1973, he had no idea a required color-theory course would lead him into LSU’s groundbreaking stained-glass program. Following graduation from LSU in 1977, he founded Architectural Stained Glass, Inc., in Dallas, Texas. Later studies with German artist Ludwig Schaffrath, who has been called the greatest stained-glass artist since the Gothic period, and Johannes Schreiter, another leading German designer, rounded out his academic experience with their emphasis on architectural environment and context.

As Jeff’s critically acclaimed work expanded beyond Dallas and across North America, he was able to escape “megalopolis” for the mountains of West Texas in 2001. At 6,200 feet amidst ponderosas, piñons, and junipers, he is 9.6 miles off pavement and 22 miles from the nearest town. Satellite internet, phone, fax, UPS, FedEx, and 4WD make it possible for Jeff to complete the largest projects of his career from the serenity of Trans Pecos, Texas.

Jeff’s Portfolio