Alumni Spotlight: Charles Jones, BArch 2006
Design & Technology: Expanding the Role of the Contemporary Design Professional After graduating in 2006, LSU School of Architecture alumnus Charles Jones worked under his mentor, Jack Ford, and taught a design studio at…
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Alumni Spotlight: Shelby Prindaville, MFA 2013
Shaping an Ecological Balance A lone buffalo stands in empty prairie with the weight of the world on its shoulders. A charcoal rendering of a puffin overlaying gray skies and deserted beach simultaneously confronts…
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Alumni Spotlight: Henry David Louth, BArch 2007
Henry David Louth, a computational designer and design researcher at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) London, earned his Bachelor of Architecture with honors from LSU in 2007. He spent five years in professional practice in…
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Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth “Boo” Thomas
The Aptitude of an Advocate Elizabeth “Boo” Thomas has led community planning activities and redevelopment efforts in Louisiana since obtaining her Master of Landscape Architecture from LSU in 1989. As the former head of…
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Alumni Spotlight: Logan Ledford, BID 2009
Logan Ledford’s entire family went to LSU. Logan graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Interior Design. Her father, Paul, majored in animal science; her mother, Lindsay, in sociology. The two met in the 1980s…
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Alumni Spotlight: Allison Regan, MFA Sculpture 2011
Allison Regan and Joanne Dolan founded the international artists’ collective First Draught in Galway, Ireland, in 2006. In fewer than 10 years, the collective has grown to include 16 artists hailing from Ireland, England,…
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Alumni Spotlight: Gregory T. Switzer, BID 1990
For the third year in a row, Gregory Switzer Architecture, PC (GSAPC), was named an LSU100: Fastest Growing Tiger Businesses honoree. Created by the E. J. Ourso College of Business Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute, LSU100…
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: William Roberts, BLA 2004
Wandering the Cultural Landscape with Nomad Studio This summer an installation designed by William Roberts and Laura Santín of Nomad Studio at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is making waves. Not amber…
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Bridget Parris, MA/Art History & MFA/Painting & Drawing
Fine artist and designer Bridget Parris has made a livelihood doing exactly what she loves to do: painting and drawing. She has always enjoyed a challenge. Bridget received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting…
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: DRU LAMB, BID 2003
At the beginning of 2015, LSU alumna Dru Lamb (BID 2003) made quite a career change. Lamb has spent the last 12 years of her life as a designer, mostly working for architecture and…
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Alumni Spotlight: Marvin “Buddy” Ragland, AIA, BArch 1980
For Marvin “Buddy” Ragland, AIA, BArch 1980, the Baton Rouge and LSU community remain a top priority in both his work and personal life. Ragland’s close ties, especially to the College of Art &…
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Bradley Furnish: From GDSO to Pixar
Bradley Furnish, editor at Pixar and 2004 LSU School of Art alumnus, will be returning to LSU to visit classes and present a screening of his recent project, The Dam Keeper, which was nominated…
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Alumni Spotlight: Seth Rodewald-Bates, MLA 2005
Seth Rodewald-Bates, MLA 2005, is a licensed landscape architect in Mississippi and Louisiana, an associate at Spackman Mossop Michaels, and an adjunct faculty member at Tulane University, where he teaches a course on site…
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Type Design with Tal Leming, BFA 1996
What do Adidas, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, Entertainment Weekly, Good Housekeeping, GQ, Paramount Pictures, Target Corporation, The Hollywood Reporter, Tiffany & Co., Time Inc. have in common? At one time or another, each has…
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Lighting Design with Suzan Tillotson
Lighting designers operate within a niche of specialists who understand the physics of light production and distribution and the physiology and psychology of how humans perceive light. They focus on fixed lighting, working with…
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Alumni Spotlight: Nicole Hilton’s Legacy
In May 2014, Nicole Hilton was notified that she had passed the Architect Registration Examination (ARE), making her the first African American female graduate of the LSU School of Architecture to become a licensed…
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Alumni Spotlight: Claire Hempel, a Planner from the Beginning
LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture alumna Claire Hempel (BLA 2002) was recently promoted to principal in charge at Design Workshop’s Austin office. Claire has been with the firm since 2011, when she…
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Alumni Honoree Carmon Colangelo to Give Commencement Address at Fall Ceremony
LSU College of Art + Design’s 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Carmon Colangelo will deliver the commencement address at the fall graduation ceremony on December 19. Colangelo received his MFA in printmaking from…
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Alumni Spotlight: Rachel Cannon Lewis
Rachel Cannon Lewis: From the Perfect Storm to the Perfect Circle One week in July of 2009 proved to be the perfect storm for LSU interior design alumna Rachel Cannon Lewis. The waves of…
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Architecture Alumni Pursue Alternative Careers in Digital Fabrication
Graduating in the midst of an economic downturn was not easy for LSU School of Architecture alumni Patrick Fess (‘10) and Jonathan Smith (‘10). After trying their hand at various facets of the…
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