Alumni Profile: April Philips
APRIL PHILIPS April Philips Design Works, Inc. Sausalito, CA Provide an educational background including professional experience. Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from LSU. (1979) Was at EDAW San Francisco 10 years, SWA GROUP Houston and…
Read Full StoryCollege 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…
Read Full StoryLSU Professors Launch Digital Media Book for Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers
Brad Cantrell and Wes Michaels, both assistant professors at the LSU top-ranked Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, have published a new book about the use of digital media for landscape renderings. Entitled Digital…
Read Full StoryLSU Hilltop Arboretum Offers Emory Smith Legacy Design Series
Hilltop, a program of the Reich School of Landscape Architecture, celebrates our donor Emory Smith’s legacy focusing on Louisiana native trees and plants and their use in landscape design in four programs this year….
Read Full StoryLSU Students Upgrade Tailgating
LSU is teaching students how to be more creative at tailgating — as part of a class. But before parents go through the roof wondering whether some of the tuition they’re paying is being…
Read Full StoryRobert Reich School of Landscape Architecture’s Design Week To Focus on Tailgating
LSU’s nationally renowned Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture holds its annual Design Week January 25‐29 with an expanded program that will include speeches and design workshops led by four nationally recognized designers. This…
Read Full StoryRobert 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…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architecture Projects Hone in on Coastal Sustainability in Two Louisiana Communities
A professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is involved in two projects that are aimed at helping coastal communities of south Louisiana rebuild wetlands and develop recreational uses for waterways that…
Read Full StoryNew Coastal Sustainability Studio Uses Team Approach to Tackle Tough Questions
A multi-disciplinary team of scholars at LSU that includes landscape architects, engineers and coastal scientists is embarking on a ground-breaking, collaborative effort to study issues related to sustainability along the fragile and vulnerable Gulf…
Read Full StoryRobert 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…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architecture Students Build New Orleans Schoolyard
When high school students at the Priestly School of Architecture and Construction in New Orleans return to school next month, they might not recognize the once-drab, asphalt schoolyard that’s located in the city’s Carrollton…
Read Full StoryLSU Students Make their Mark on McComb, MS
While many LSU students spent the month of May regrouping from the spring semester and gearing up for summer, a dedicated group of students from the College of Art and Design were busy working…
Read Full StoryRobert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Names Inaugural Bickham Chair
When the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture were looking to fill the inaugural Bickham Chair, they wanted someone who embodied the spirit of excellence for which the nation’s No. 2-ranked landscape architecture school…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architecture Professor Wins National Award for Study of Unique Landscapes
An assistant professor in the LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture has received a prestigious award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) for her study of three unique landscapes – including New…
Read Full StoryRobert Reich School of Landscape Architecture to Redesign Baton Rouge Riverfront during Design Week
The downtown Baton Rouge riverfront will get a facelift – on paper at least – during the upcoming Design Week at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. The design charrette, as the…
Read Full StoryRobert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Again Ranks Among Best in U.S.
(Baton Rouge) – For the fifth consecutive year, the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is ranked among the top five schools in the nation by Design Intelligence, the leading journal of the…
Read Full StoryState Officials Visit LSU Landscape Architecture Studio to Review Student Project on River Road
(Baton Rouge) – Officials from the Louisiana Department of Culture Recreation and Tourism will visit a graduate design studio at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture this Friday Nov. 21 at 9…
Read Full StoryLSU Landscape Architecture Professor Wins Fulbright
(Baton Rouge) –The LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce that assistant professor Wes Michaels is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for 2008-2009. Michaels has received a Fulbright to…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architecture Students Win National Award
(Baton Rouge) – Three students from LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture have received one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for a project they did last year in New Orleans’ flood-damaged Lower…
Read Full StoryLSU Landscape Architecture Professors Win National Award for New Orleans Project
(Baton Rouge) Two faculty members at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture have received one the highest professional awards in their field for an urban farm they designed in a Vietnamese community…
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