LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio Awarded Kresge Foundation Grant to Assist Coastal Communities
The LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS), a trans-disciplinary program of the College of Art & Design, College of Engineering, and School of the Coast & Environment, has been awarded a $200,000, two-year grant from…
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DredgeFest at Its Best: A Recap
The 2014 DredgeFest Symposium and Workshops gathered a range of professionals working on sediment transportation and dredging throughout Southern Louisiana and the world. The workshops hosted at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape…
Read Full StoryLSU Team a Finalist in the ONE Prize Competition
A multidisciplinary team of faculty and students in architecture, landscape architecture, and civil engineering at the Louisiana State University Coastal Sustainability Studio recently placed as finalists for the 2013 ONE Prize Award. The ONE…
Read Full StoryLSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Hosting DredgeFest Workshops in January 2014
LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA) is hosting DredgeFest Louisiana workshops at the LSU Design Building, January 13–16, 2014. DredgeFest Louisiana runs January 11–17, 2014, and includes a symposium in New Orleans…
Read Full StoryLSU Coastal Sustainability Studio to Present Mayors’ Institute on City Design in December
The LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS), a trans-disciplinary program of the College of Art + Design, College of Engineering, and School of the Coast & Environment, will present a regional session of the Mayors’ Institute…
Read Full StoryLSU Art History Professor Contributes Chapter to Yale University Press Publication
LSU School of Art Associate Professor Darius A. Spieth is a contributor to the book The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture and the Crash of 1720, newly released by Yale University Press. A…
Read Full Story2013–14 Bickham Chair Lecture Addresses the Ephemeral Nature of Maps in Site Design
“Data and the Documentation of the Shifting Urban Landscape,” by Andrea Hansen Monday, November 11, at 5 p.m. | Design Building, Room 103 Andrea Hansen, the pending 2013–14 Marie M. Bickham Chair at the…
Read Full StoryAndrea Hansen Named 2013–14 Marie M. Bickham Chair in Landscape Architecture at LSU
Andrea Hansen has been named the 2013–14 Marie M. Bickham Chair in Landscape Architecture at the LSU College of Art + Design Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA), pending approval by the LSU…
Read Full Story“Fort Proctor” Named 2013 Architectural Research Centers Consortium Best Conference Paper
The Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Board of Directors has named “Fort Proctor: A Conditional Preservation” as the best paper at the 2013 ARCC Conference at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The…
Read Full StoryBilingual Article by LSU Art History Professor Susan Elizabeth Ryan Explores Wearable Technology
LSU School of Art Professor Susan Elizabeth Ryan has contributed an article to the anthology Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age, Part 2: Theory, edited and curated by Dmitry Bulatov…
Read Full StoryLSU Architecture and Landscape Architecture Faculty Co-Chair EDRA45: Building for Change Conference in New Orleans
Note: The submission deadline for abstracts, full papers, and EDRAShorts has been extended to 9 a.m., Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Two LSU College of Art + Design faculty are co-chairs of the Environmental Design Research Association’s…
Read Full StoryAssociate Professor Lake Douglas Publishes Research in Two European Journals
“Certain pleasures, ambiguous grounds: the etymology and evolution of the pleasure garden” by Lake Douglas, associate professor, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, appeared in the spring issue of the Journal of Landscape Architecture,…
Read Full StorySchool of Art Students Use Supercomputer to Render Digital Art Projects
This summer, LSU School of Art students using 3D animation software such as Maya, 3ds Max, After Effects, and CINEMA 4D, were able to offload rendering jobs to SuperMike-II, a 146 TFlops Peak Performance…
Read Full StoryArt History Professor Emeritus Mauck Receives Conover Award
While at LSU, she taught a wide range of courses including Introduction to Fine Arts, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Romanesque Art, Gothic Art as well as working with students on various independent studies. She has been a lecturer…
Read Full StoryAlliance for Historic Landscape Preservation Annual Meeting
Associate Professor Kevin Risk will be presenting a paper that was co-written with Associate Professor Cat Marshall at the Alliance for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting. The paper is entitled “Ordering the Louisiana Landscape.” The…
Read Full StoryProfessor Cheramie Publishes “Lost Graves of the Morganza Floodway” in Places
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Kristi Cheramie published an article in Places that highlights her work on the Morganza Spillway. The publication is co-authored with…
Read Full StoryRichard Doubleday Contributes to Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Richard B. Doubleday is one of the contributors to the recently released Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, a “book in a box” that features 500 graphic designs including newspapers, magazines, posters, advertisements,…
Read Full StoryLSU’s Office of Community Design and Development Receives $25,000 Foundation for Louisiana Grant
The Foundation for Louisiana recently awarded $25,000 to the LSU School of Architecture’s Office of Community Design and Development, or OCDD, to conduct a 10-month public service project and pilot study, “Advancing Louisiana Small…
Read Full StoryArt Historian Susan Elizabeth Ryan Receives $50,000 Atlas Award
Art Historian and Art History Professor Susan Elizabeth Ryan, PhD, recently won an Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (also known as an ATLAS Award) in the amount of $50,000, for her proposal, “Critical…
Read Full StoryArchitecture Professor Receives more than $75,000 in grants to investigate ruins of 19th century Louisiana Fort
Associate Professor Ursula Emery McClure recently received two grants for the upcoming academic year to investigate the ruins of Fort Proctor, a 19th century fort in St. Bernard Parish that has been engulfed by…
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