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HEADLINES (scroll down for faculty news, departmental news, and events):
Dr. Frederick Steiner, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas in Austin, delivered the first Robert L. Thayer lecture, in commemoration of UCD Landscape Architecture's new home in the renovated Hunt Hall. The Davis Enterprise has an article about the lecture.
New! PhD in Geography/Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design: a Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design (LAED) concentration in the UCD Geography Graduate Group.
Landscape Architecture is named one of Outside magazine's 50 best jobs.
UCD Landscape Architecture is the co-organizer of the International Symposium on Open Public Urban Space (OPUS) in Norway, June 26 - 29, 2008.
- 12/2008: U.S. News and World Report again picks Landscape Architecture as one of thirty careers 'that offer strong outlooks and high job satisfaction.' Architects, on the other hand, are 'overrated'.
- http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/11/best-careers-2009-landscape-architect.html
- http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2008/12/11/the-report-card.html
U.S. News & World Report rates Landscape Architecture as a strong career choice in 2008. Using both quantitative and qualitative criteria to pick from hundreds of careers, Landscape Architecture was selected by U.S. News as one of 31 best choices in 2008. The highly regarded national magazine narrowed its search by focusing on professions that offer outstanding opportunities based on job satisfaction, training difficulty, prestige, job market outlook and pay. Read more>>
Program profiled in Landscape Architecture and Specifier News:
The UC Davis Landscape Architecture Program was profiled in the October issue of Landscape Architecture and Specifier News (LASN). The article featured three of our graduating students' senior research projects and talked about the unique strengths of our program as the only accredited undergraduate Landscape Architecture degree in the UC system. Read the profile >>
Since 2001, UCD Landscape Architecture has offered an exchange program with the University of Stavanger, Norway: read about it it here!
FACULTY NEWS:
Adjunct professor Jeff Loux appeared on Good Morning America in a story about Germany's "Green City of the Future", while leading a summer school class in Europe. Jeff has also recently been appointed Chair of the Science, Agriculture and Natural Resources division of UC Davis Extension!
Professor Michael Rios will be hosting a webinar on urban design; miroity populations and social equity; sustainability, policy, planning and politics; and professional development on 9/1/7/09.
May 6, 2009 -- LDA professors Patsy Owens and Michael Rios have received $1 million from Sierra Health Foundation and The California Endowment for an ambitious two-year study that will yield recommendations for boosting the region's vitality by investing in its youth.
Professor Stephen Wheeler's summer 2009 urban sprawl research is profiled in UC Davis news.
- Environmental Lecture on Earth Day! Professor Stephen Wheeler will lecture on sustainable development on Wednesday, April 22 at 6-7pm in Wellman 26. ASUCD ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PLANNING COMMISSION
- Professor Michael Rios will be speaking about "Health, Community Design, and the Architecture of Collective Action" at Washington University in St. Louis on 3/17/09.
- Professor Stephen Wheeler has received the 2009 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning. This award is given annually by Cal Poly Pomona to one planning scholar and one practitioner, who receive awards of $5,000 each and participate in two days of symposia, class presentations, and dialogue with students. The practitioner this year is Gail Goldberg, Planning Director for the City of Los Angeles and former Planning Director for the City of San Diego. The theme this year is "The Future of California's Communities and Regions in an Era of Resource Constraints and Climate Change."
- Professor Patsy
Owens's students' Youtube
documentary
of the design collaboration between Grant High School and
UCD for the Grant High School campus landscape.
Assistant Professor Stephen Wheeler provides comment on the future of sustainable communities in the August 2008 issue of the "California Planning and Development Report".
Loren Oki, Cooperative Extension Specialist, quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article on water conservation.
Professor Michael Rios was a featured speaker at "Community Design: Involvement and Architecture in the U.S. since 1963", a design symposium co-sponsored by An Architektur and Art Transponder in Berlin, Germany. The symposium also included a retrospective exhibit of US community design practice since the civil rights movement. The up-coming issue of An Architektur will feature an interview with Professor Rios.
The Landscape Architecture Foundation has published a series of online case studies based on the case study method developed for LAF by Professor Mark Francis. Mark's method was also used to develop a series of case studies for the Sustainable Sites Initiative sponsored by ASLA, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U. S. Botanic Garden and for a new book "European Landscape Architecture" by Ian Thompson.
On display during May 2008 at Gallery625 in Woodland, CA: Professor Stephen Wheeler's LDA 180/181G students were asked to identify planning and design strategies that could help Yolo County and its communities adapt to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These ideas are showcased in mixed media presentation boards that illustrate concepts ranging from green roofs to transit-oriented development.
Professor Stephen Wheeler cited in Austin American-Statesman in an article on green-minded living.
Congratulations to Steve McNiel and Michael Fotheringham for receiving ASUCD Excellence in Education Awards! These awards are bestowed upon professors, lecturers, or instructors who most strongly contribute to the educational experiences of undergraduates. The Associated Students of University of California, Davis (ASUCD) received over 300 nominations from students for various professors on campus. Awardees are determined based on the quality and quantity of student nominations. Nominations are voluntary.
Prof. Mark Francis & LDA 181M students help design Sacramento's proposed Gold Rush Park (other articles here and here). Our own webpage about it is here.
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS:
The Landscape Architecture Department is always looking for students with work-study (ask UCD Financial Aid Office if you can qualify) for classroom assistants, TAs, readers, peer advisors, etc. We can sometimes offer you units in lieu of salary, as well. Please contact MSO Shannon Tanguay.
- Newsletter - April 2008
- Newsletter - December 2007
- Newsletter - March 2007
- Newsletter - December 2006
Congratulations to Kim Chacon, 2007 Bernard Osher Foundation Scholarship recipient! Here is a picture of Kim at the ceremony with LDA Professor, Mark Francis, LDA Advisor, Sharla Harrington, and LDA Chair, Steve McNiel.
Graduate Study opportunities in LDA
UC Davis Extension offers courses in Landscape Management to students, alumni and community members - Classes are taught by UC Davis faculty and leading industry experts, bringing to each course the latest practical applications, research and cutting edge information.
2008-09 Lecturers Application (for reference)
- Landscape Architecture Students Stand and Deliver. It isn't easy to get into the Landscape Architecture Program at UC Davis, and it's even harder to get out. In an annual rite of passage, all graduating seniors present projects that are the culmination of two quarters of intensive effort and extensive review.
EVENTS/SPEAKERS (UPCOMING AND RECENT):
St. Martin's Episcopal Church is building a concrete and granite-resin labyrinth just over 42 ft in diameter, Chartres pattern with 11 circuits. It is in an outside location and will be surrounded by a garden setting when the entire project is complete. Master labyrinth designer and expert Robert Ferré from Labyrinth Enterprises in St. Louis is coming to direct the application of the granite resin on the concrete. Robert Ferré will be giving a public lecture on labyrinths and their designs and uses (including some sacred geometry) on Wednesday, Nov. 4 from 6 - 7 p.m. at St. Martin's church, 640 Hawthorn Lane in Davis. I thought perhaps either you or some of the students in your programs would be interested in attending the public lecture and/or coming to see the work being done from Nov. 3 - 8th on the labyrinth. The lecture is free and open to the public. On Wednesday, November 4, from 6 &endash; 7 p.m., master labyrinth designer Robert Ferré will give a public lecture on labyrinth design and uses as well as sacred geometry at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 640 Hawthorn Lane, in Davis. Different from a maze, which has multiple pathways and dead ends, a labyrinth is a single path with many turns designed for contemplation, prayer, and meditation. Owner of Labyrinth Enterprises in St. Louis, Ferré will be in Davis for over a week directing the design of St. Martin's new concrete and granite-resin labyrinth. Ferré's talk is free and open to the public. St. Martin's also invites all in the community to enjoy and use the new labyrinth once it is complete.
We've posted pictures of the events LDA has hosted in Hunt Hall during 2009!
Attend the GreenSpot Annual Workshop on Sustainable Development!
Students! Be sure to check out the Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition.
Landscape Architecture's guest speaker Rachel Evans Lloyd presented on 10/10/08 during the campus centenniel celebration. A 100mb Quicktime .mov file is available here.
LDA alumni and current affiliates celebrated our private Homecoming game tailgate party on October 11, 2008!
UCD ASLA's 2009 and 2008 Professionals Dinner.
The John Muir Institute of the Environment's 2008 Environmental Solutions Series: Climate Change: Solutions and Implementation
Bringing together innovation, design, and sustainability, the UC Davis Design Museum and the Department of Landscape Architecture, in association with the Great Valley Center and the Sustainable Transportation Center present GreenStop -- highlights from an international design competition challenging architects and designers to create an off-the-grid, sustainable rest area near Tipton on California Highway 99. Davis Enterprise article on the exhibition is available as a PDF here.
- Focus the Nation: UC Davis as well as other universities, schools and civic organizations participated in Focus the Nation, a daylong educational initiative to explore climate change solutions. At UC Davis, events included: seminars on topics ranging from energy efficiency to spiritual life; an idea fair; a climate change cultural showcase; tours of eco-friendly sites on campus; and a World of Ideas Café, in which Freeborn Hall was transformed into an "ideas convention" where teams advocated for climate change solutions. Learn more >>
- Landscape Architect Registration Examination Preparatory Courses
- Jan. 11-13, 2008
- Freeman & Jewell Landscape Architecture is once again offering our popular series of preparatory courses for candidates taking the Landscape Architect Registration Examination. These courses have attracted students from all over California as well as eight other western states and British Columbia.
- UCD Landscape Architecture also hosted our own LARE prep course in Walker Hall on 11/8/08. Thank you to all who attended.
- Alumni participate in PARK(ing) Day 2007 in San Francisco: On September 21, 2007, recent graduates from the UC Davis Landscape Architecture program created an installation challenging people to rethink the way streets are used and reinforcing the need for urban open space. See our alumni photos here! Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into "PARK(ing)" spaces: temporary public parks. For more information, visit the PARK(ing) Day 2007 web site.
- Cultivated celebrates art inspired by landscape architecture and design. Held in conjunction with the annual ASLA conference, last year's gathering took place in San Francisco, "bringing to light" various forms of appreciation and expression of landscape. October 6th 2007 San Francisco, CA.
2-Day Workshop: Remodeling Design Activism @ Berkeley CED, 2/2/07
UC Davis Landscape Architecture Program and Design Museum host drawings and photographs by Spanish urban planner Ildefons Cerda - (The California Aggie, September 28, 2006)
Design's Diaspora: a symposium held in 2005 by Landscape Architecture at UC Davis.
Cornerstone: UC Davis student garden at the International Festival of Gardens, Sonoma.
10/29/09