Coastal Sustainability Studio Summer Interns
Graduate students from planning, landscape architecture, architecture, geography, coastal science, and engineering have come from across the US to work in the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS) this summer. The interns are working together…
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Interior Design Exchange Student Places in Design Competition
The Retail Design Institute’s 2014 Student Design Competition winners were announced on July 14, and Yangan Huang, a second-year graduate exchange student from Hunan University studying interior design at LSU, received honorable mention for…
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Art History Professor Darius Spieth Presents Research in Paris
On May 27, 2014, Darius A. Spieth, associate professor of art history at the LSU School of Art, presented his current research at the Fondation Custodia in Paris. His talk, “Netherlandish Art in Revolutionary…
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Landscape Professor Receives Prestigious Grant to Research the American Catfish Industry
Forbes Lipschitz, assistant professor at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, has received a research development grant from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for her project,…
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One Graphic Design Professor, Three Grants
Richard Doubleday, assistant professor of graphic design at the LSU School of Art, has recently received three grants to help fund his research in areas ranging from modern Chinese graphic design to the 1930s…
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Erin Percevault Named Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation
The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) has announced the two winners for the 2014 Olmsted Scholars Program, the premier national award and recognition program for landscape architecture students. Erin Percevault, an undergraduate student at the…
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Forbes Lipschitz Presents Research at Mediated City Conference in London
Forbes Lipschitz, assistant professor of landscape architecture at LSU, presented her work at the 2014 Mediated City conference in London on April 2, 2014. The conference was hosted by Architecture_MPS, a journal of architecture,…
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Undergraduate Coastal Research Curriculum
The LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, a trans-disciplinary program of the College of Art & Design, School of the Coast & Environment, and College of Engineering, in collaboration with the Office of Research & Economic…
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Cathy Marshall Presents Paper at CELA Annual Meeting
Cathy Marshall, associate professor at the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, presented a paper at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, March 26–29, 2014. Her paper,…
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Mossop and Michaels Receive Grant to Implement Alternative Land Management Strategies in New Orleans
Professor Elizabeth Mossop and Associate Professor Wes Michaels of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture have received a $242,399 grant from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) to research and implement ecologically…
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Datascapes Symposium and Workshop led by Bickham Chair Andrea Hansen
From Hurricane Katrina and Typhoon Haiyan to the Arab spring and Occupy Wall Street, 21st-century spatial practice has an opportunity never before seen to impact the adaptation of global cities to profound—and often sudden—change….
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Students Research Byzantine Churches in Istanbul with Art History Professor Matt Savage
Byzantine architectural history is Assistant Professor Matt Savage’s main field of interest, and his research in this area has created opportunities for LSU undergraduates studying art history, digital art, and architecture to collaborate in…
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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…
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