Three UGA Faculty Chosen as Case Study Investigation Program Participants for 2018 by the Landscape Architecture Foundation
Three UGA Faculty Chosen as Case Study Investigation Program Participants for 2018 by the Landscape Architecture Foundation
Historic Preservation Students Attend the National Trust Conference
Students in Historic Preservation had the opportunity to visit Chicago and attend the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual conference from November 14-17. Fifteen students participated in this year's conference along with Professor James Reap and Director of Development Jennifer Messer. This year's Past Forward conference focused on themes of reurbanism, technology, health, and connections. In addition to attending the [...]
Sonia Hirt Named Dean of UGA College of Environment and Design
Athens, Ga. - Sonia Hirt, a seasoned administrator and one of the world's foremost scholars of land use and planning, has been named dean of the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design. Hirt is currently professor and dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, and her appointment at UGA [...]
Farming the Highway
First year MLA student Matt Quirey and BLA program director Brad Davis are partners in a three-year project with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), The Land Institute, and The Ray, an 18-mile section of highway dedicated to transforming the transportation infrastructure of the future and supported by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation. Davis and Quirey have installed and will [...]
CED Faculty and PhD Student Presents Work At Visual Resource Stewardship Conference
Visual Resource Stewardship Conference presentation Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois November 7 - 9, 2017 Attending and presenting: Brian Orland, Jon Calabria, Micah Taylor PhD student Micah Taylor joined CED faculty members Brian Orland and Jon Calabria in a presentation at a recent conference at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. The Visual Resource Stewardship conference, Landscape and Seaside Management [...]
CED Visits Historic African-American School in Rural Georgia
Maurice Blount of the University Architects Office and a first year PhD student in the College of Environment and Design joined Danny Sniff on a visit to Taliaferro County recently to inspect the historic Springfield School, a log structure built in the early decades of the 20th century. The unique building was used first as a school for African Americans [...]
CED and East Georgia College Campus Design: Creating a Master Plan for the College in the Pines
Think of the special places on the UGA campus: Herty Field, the Founders Memorial Garden, Brooks Drive, or the North Campus quadrangle, to name a few. All of them hold meaning for us in addition to simply serving as locations that occupy the space between buildings. Yes, we walk often without noticing them to classes, the library, [...]
Students Recommend Trees for Rocksprings Homes Community Center in Athens
Shade and food plantings for the area surrounding the Rocksprings Homes Community Center in Athens were among the suggestions made by second year BLA students in Shelley Cannady's planting design class recently. Based on the students' design solutions, the trees and shrubs will be planted in spring 2018 on Arbor Day. Students presented their proposals to members of the community [...]
MLA Student Get the Scoop on Daily Tasks at HGOR Landscape Architecture Firm
What day-to-day tasks are involved in the professional world of a landscape architect? Which skills are most marketable and how will employers help shape one's professional trajectory? These were a few of the questions on the minds of CED graduate students who visited Atlanta landscape architecture firm HGOR recently. HGOR, one of the most recognizable and longstanding landscape architecture firms [...]
Georgia Students of Landscape Architecture Host Chad Danos, Former President of ASLA
Chad Danos, FASLA, former president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, joined us here at CED for a two-day visit recently, hosted by Georgia Students of Landscape Architecture (GSLA). Sponsored in large part by Permaloc, his visit was a great opportunity for students of landscape architecture to hear about trends in hiring as well as emerging challenges for [...]