Architecture Students Design a 20-Year Vision Plan for the Vietnamese Tam Bao Community
In Assistant Professor Catherine Bonier’s service learning studio, ARCH 4001, fourth-year architecture students are working with the Vietnamese Buddhist community of Tam Bao Temple in Baton Rouge to create a 20-year vision plan…
Read Full StoryTransformation through Animation
Architectural Techniques (Arch 2003), taught by A. Hays Town Professor Ursula Emery McClure and Adjunct Professor Kristen Kelsch, is an introductory course for second-year undergraduate students and first-year graduate students. For their first project,…
Read Full StoryDasjon Jordan: Walls of Vision
Dasjon Jordan, a fourth-year architecture student, discusses his involvement with the Mid City Studio project, #iammidcity. His goal for the project is to incorporate technology and architecture by weaving it into the fabric of…
Read Full StoryMaster of Fine Arts Candidates Present Lecture Series, Exhibition at University of South Alabama
LSU Master of Fine Arts candidates Eric Euler, Mitch Hobbs, Taryn Möller Nicoll, and M. Robyn Wall were selected to deliver artist lectures at the University of South Alabama on November 6, 2014. Per…
Read Full StoryStudents in Sustainable Strategies Course Become LEED Green Associates
This summer 2014, an interdisciplinary mix of LSU students completed the Sustainable Design Strategies course took and then passed the professional accreditation exam qualifying them as LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design,…
Read Full StoryAs the 2014–15 LSU College of Art & Design Lecture Series Begins . . .
As we approach the first week of lectures in the 2014–15 LSU College of Art & Design—Guy Nordenson, 2014–15 Nadine Carter Russell Chair in architecture will lecture on Monday, October 6, and artist Kurt…
Read Full StoryPROJECT 1:1. Architecture Students Design and Fabricate a Full-Scale Study Kiosk
Second-year students in the fall 2014 architectural design III studio (ARCH 2001), taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Shelby Elizabeth Doyle and Adjunct Professor Kristen Kelsch, were required to design and fabricate full-scale study kiosks…
Read Full StoryCollege Hosts First Annual Scholarship Reception & Presentation
The LSU College of Art & Design’s first annual scholarship reception and presentation was held September 4, 2014, in the LSU Design Building. The event served as an opportunity to honor this year’s recipients…
Read Full StoryLSU Team Places Second in National Peterson Prize Competition for HABS Documentation of Fort Pike
A student team led by A. Hays Town Professor Ursula Emery McClure placed second in the 2014 Peterson Prize student competition for their HABS documentation of Fort Pike. The project was undertaken in spring…
Read Full StoryTracy Manuel: Interior Design Student Extraordinaire
LSU interior design student Tracy Manuel is entering her senior year with a $30,000 scholarship from the Angelo Donghia Foundation and a job at Gensler, Houston, already in place. Tracy’s junior year was quite…
Read Full StoryEvan Peterson’s Internship at Leedscape in Beijing
The LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture has a long-standing tradition of facilitating internships for undergraduate students. Undergraduate students are required to participate in internships during the spring semester of their fourth-year of…
Read Full StoryPhotography Student Patrick “Melon” Dufauchard Starts artHASAHOME in Baton Rouge
Art has a home in Baton Rouge, thanks to fourth-year LSU School of Art photography student Patrick Dufauchard, who operates under the name of Patrick Melon when undergoing his artistic endeavors. In July 2013,…
Read Full StoryInterior 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…
Read Full StoryEye on a Tiger: Jamie Yousten
Jamie Yousten graduated from the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture in May 2014. She majored in landscape architecture and minored in photography. The summer before her fifth year, she interned at Peter…
Read Full StoryA Donor’s Story: The Thomas Byron Smith Memorial Scholarship
Martha Richard never attended LSU, but she recognizes how the university has impacted her life. Richard said her late first husband, architect T. Byron Smith, came from a middle-class background, “but LSU enabled him…
Read Full StoryLandscape Students Head to Capitol Hill for ASLA National Advocacy Day
In May 2014, six LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture students traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the American Society of Landscape Architects National Advocacy Day. Members of the LSU student chapter…
Read Full StoryMaria Munoz Awarded National ASLA Council of Fellows Scholarship
Third-year undergraduate student Maria Munoz of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is one of three recipients of a $4,000 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows Scholarship for 2014….
Read Full StoryInterior Design Students Delve into Pediatric Healthcare Design with Baton Rouge General
LSU interior design students recently proposed designs and environmental branding for the pediatric center at Baton Rouge General Hospital to hospital representatives. The studio was taught by Associate Professor TL Ritchie and Ruth Z….
Read Full StoryMadeline Kornman Named Student Employee of the Year for her Work in CADGIS
Madeline Kornman expects to graduate in May of 2015 from the LSU School of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art and a concentration in digital art. Her dream is to…
Read Full StoryLSU College of Art & Design Students Reimagine the Oil-Industry Shore Base
Students in A. Hays Town Professor of Architecture Ursula Emery McClure’s graduate-level studio, LSU//Chevron: The Reimagined Shore Base, are exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world and seeking resolutions that will create…
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