Second Annual Scholarship Reception & Presentation
The LSU College of Art & Design’s second annual scholarship reception and presentation was held September 17, 2015, in the LSU Design Building. The event served as an opportunity to honor this year’s recipients…
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Baton Rouge Library Designed by LSU Alumni Honored with National 2015 Landmark Library Award
The Main Library at Goodwood, which is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System, has been recognized with four prestigious national design awards. The three-story, 126,000-square-foot building was designed by the Library…
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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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Harper Hicks Bateman, BArch 2000: The Aviation Architect
LSU School of Architecture alumna Harper Hicks Bateman grew up around planes; her grandfather was a pilot. From a very young age, she was interested in how spaces are used—from tree houses to the…
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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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America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools
For the 17th consecutive year, DesignIntelligence is conducting their annual surveys of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools. If you are a person in your firm who hires architects, interior designers, or landscape architects,…
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Jeremiah Ariaz a Finalist for MPS Fund for Documentary Photography
Besides heading to Review Santa Fe this June 11–14, 2015, Jeremiah Ariaz, associate professor of photography at the LSU School of Art, has been selected as a finalist for a grant and his work…
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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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Ripple Effect: Establishing Water Literacy in New Orleans Schools
For a city such as New Orleans, whose metro region averages more than five feet of rain per year and annually spends millions of dollars pumping out stormwater, it is increasingly imperative that every…
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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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April is National Landscape Architecture Month
The month of April—National Landscape Architecture Month (NLAM)—is a fitting time to celebrate and promote one of the fastest growing professions in the world. Throughout the month, the LSU Robert Reich School of…
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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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Professor Mark E. Boyer Named New Director of LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture
LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture has selected Professor Mark E. Boyer, head of the University of Arkansas’s Department of Landscape Architecture, to serve as the school’s new director. Pending approval from the…
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Design Week with Lewis T. May, Associate Principal and Urban Design Director of Page
LSU’s nationally renowned Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture held its annual Design Week January 26–30, 2015, with a program that included a lecture and weeklong design workshop led by alumnus Lewis T….
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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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Students in Cheetham’s Plants & Ecology Class Spend an Afternoon in the Archives
LSU landscape architecture students in Louise Cheetham Bordelon’s plants and ecology class (LA 7024) visited Hill Memorial Library to view a selection of rare books and to participate in a drawing exercise in…
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Fundraising Completed for Neil G. Odenwald Distinguished Professorship in Landscape Architecture
Donors to the nation’s number one school in landscape architecture give $180,000 through the LSU Foundation for distinguished professorship honoring Professor Emeritus and esteemed landscape architect/horticultural artist Neil G. Odenwald. Fundraising efforts for the…
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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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