Two CED teams recently submitted entries in the EPA's 2016 Campus RainWorks Challenge. There were 60 total submissions. With both teams making it to the final round of 16, and one going on to achieve an Honorable Mention, the CED made an impressive showing in this national competition! Congratulations to the team of Ming Guan, Carter Ricks, Danielle Schwartz, Danielle Valdes, and Yuwen Yang [...]
Students in Dr. Reinberger's Vernacular Architecture course this semester had the opportunity to participate in a field trip from March 23-25 visiting sites in North Carolina and Virginia. Students started the three day journey with a stop at Mendenhall Homeplace in Jamestown, NC before visiting Old Salem in Winston-Salem, NC. Old Salem is an historic Moravian community featuring Germanic architecture, founded [...]
Over 200 people gathered in the Jackson Street Building on Friday, April 21st for an exciting day of critiques, honors and awards, and the annual Neel Reid Lecture, which featured Allan Armitage. Congratulations to all students, faculty, staff, and CED alumni for their accomplishments and thank you to the Peachtree Garden Club for sponsoring our annual Neel Reid lecture!
Several CED students and Program Coordinator Professor Reap attended the World Heritage and U.S. Civil Rights Sites Symposium hosted by Georgia State University last week. The purpose of the symposium was to discuss the potential nomination of sites associated with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to the World Heritage List. Representatives for many of these sites as well as experts in [...]
On Friday, April 14, 2017, the Student Historic Preservation Organization hosted its annual Spring Gala fundraising event. The event was themed Secret Garden and was held at the Founders House and Memorial Garden, a perfect setting. Guests enjoyed refreshments including Automatic Pizza and dessert from Donderos' Kitchen while enjoying the spring weather and good company. Second year MHP student Dylan [...]
The Student Historic Preservation Organization spent the weekend of April 8-9 volunteering with Hands on Athens. Hands on Athens, a program of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, is an organization dedicated to assisting low-income Athens homeowners in historic neighborhoods to maintain, repair, and restore their properties as part of overall neighborhood revitalization. As part of their volunteer work this weekend, SHPO members assisted [...]
The Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDP) is working with the City of Winterville, Georgia this semester. Recently the CCDP led a charrette in Winterville, with students in the service-learning Community Design Charrettes class leading discussions and work-sessions with local residents. Columns: The Online Newspaper for the University of Georgia Community, featured the charrette in this week's issue, describing the process and some initial findings, as well as including several student perspectives on the value that service-learning projects bring to their education in the CED, as well as to the communities that CCDP assists. "I'm blown away by how intensely they're working and how public this process is," [Winterville Mayor] Ferrelle said, "There are some things that I'm hoping they bring to us that we can put into place and adopt."
Congratulations to Danielle Schwartz (right), candidate for Master of Landscape Architecture, and Chloe Weigle (left), candidate for Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, for being chosen this year's CED Olmsted Scholar nominees. Each year, the CED faculty chooses one graduate student and one undergraduate student to represent UGA CED in the national competition, which is sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) [...]
