Educating About Landscape Architecture
Professor Bruce Sharky and students are working to spread the word about how landscape architects affect significant change in the world. Today’s landscape architect tackles everything from large-scale environmental issues like disaster recovery and stormwater management…
Read Full StoryLSU Students Design for Giant Pandas in China
This fall LSU design students in assistant professor Brendan Harmon’s interdisciplinary “Giant Panda Studio” are designing a new national park for giant panda conservation and tourism in the wilds of Sichuan Province, China. The…
Read Full StoryNew to LSU: Q&A with Robyn Reed
Assistant professor of landscape architecture Robyn Reed is a designer, educator, and advocate for the practice of landscape architecture. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Robyn is a licensed landscape architect…
Read Full StoryArt & Design Tailgate 2019
The annual College of art & Design tailgate party was Saturday, October 26, 2019.
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The 2019 LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Alumni Reception was Saturday, November 16, 2019 in San Diego, CA.
Read Full StoryCareer Networking Day 2019
Presented by the LSU College of Art & Design and the LSU Olinde Career Center, Art & Design Networking Day is an open networking session for students and employers. Art & Design Career Networking…
Read Full StoryAustin Lu Awarded Southern Garden History Society Scholarship
BLA candidate Chunfeng “Austin” Lu was awarded the Southern Garden History Society Scholarship to attend the 2019 annual meeting of garden historians, located in Birmingham, Alabama this year. At the meeting Lu, a rising…
Read Full StoryKevin Benham Conducts Research at Residency in Tuscany
This summer, Kevin Benham, assistant professor of landscape architecture, was invited to do an artist residency at Villa Lena in Tuscany, Italy, to advance his creative scholarship in the study of light movement. Benham…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architecture Students Design for Denham Springs Community Post-Flood
After the Louisiana flood of August 2016, Denham Spring city officials asked residents what they’d like to see as the city recovered and rebuilt. The community has declared priority making Denham Springs a friendlier place…
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The Urban Landscape New Orleans-born MLA candidate Taylor Jacobsen chose to pursue landscape architecture in hopes of designing cities. So when he had the opportunity to participate in a beautification project in downtown Baton…
Read Full StoryHealthcare Innovation Seminar Joins Experts Across Fields
The new Healthcare Innovation Seminar offered by the School of Interior Design in spring 2019 is the first of its kind, joining together interdisciplinary scholars to combine expertise to study healthcare design from multiple…
Read Full StoryTipton Travel Award Funds Water Research in the Netherlands
Yuta Masakane, MLA 2019, received the 2018 Tipton Travel Award to help fund his research trip to study water management in the Netherlands. The trip to the Netherlands taught Yuta about the aesthetics and…
Read Full StoryLSU Represents Louisiana Landscape Architects in Washington, DC
In May 2019, two graduating MLA students Taylor Fehmel and Mai Nguyen, associate dean and landscape architecture professor Lake Douglas, and LSU landscape architecture alumni Haley and Shannon Blakeman, Chris Ferris, and Justin Lemoine…
Read Full StoryCarbo Landscape Architecture Recruitment Center Unveiled
On April 26, 2019, a ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the grand opening of the new facilities of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture: the new Carbo Landscape Architecture Recruitment Center, located in the…
Read Full StoryLSU Students and Alumni Receive 2019 ASLA Awards
LSU landscape architecture students were awarded American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) LA chapter 2019 awards for their projects studying the environments of Louisiana. MLA students Hayden Hammons, Taylor Jacobsen, Nguyệt Nguyen, Betsy Peterson,…
Read Full StoryCoAD Awarded Grant for Architecture and Landscape Field Trip Program
The LSU College of Art & Design received a grant from the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip Program to support LSU College of Art & Design-hosted field trips…
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