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HEADLINES (scroll down for other news and events):
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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>>
Professor Stephen Wheeler cited in Austin American-Statesman in an article on green-minded living.
- 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!
- 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.
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.
Mark Francis, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design, has been appointed to the jury for the International Design Competition for Sejong, a new administrative city to open in 2012 in South Korea. The new city will relocate the Prime Minster's office and half of the national government to a new city of 500,000 to built in a rural area two hours south of Seoul. The city will include a series of urban villages clustered around a large park, twice the size of New York City's Central Park. Francis is helping the Korean government select the design for the park and central open space during visits in May and August.
Students! Be sure to check out the Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition. Announcing the 2008 Wayne Grace Student Design Competition! The Landscape Architectural Registration Boards Foundation announces the ninth- annual Wayne Grace Student Design Competition. This competition recognizes outstanding examples of landscape architectural work by students that demonstrate how the practice of landscape architecture and licensing affects quality of life. The competition is open to any student or team of students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate Landscape Architectural Degree Program. Submissions may pertain to any project which affects the natural and built environment and has a demonstrated, positive impact on the quality of life of the public. In prior years, a number of landscape architecture programs have successfully incorporated the competition into their academic curriculum. We invite programs in universities and colleges from around the country to consider taking part in this competition. Submissions will be accepted through May 31, 2008. Up to four winning submissions will receive a cash award in the amount of $1,000 and will be recognized during an awards ceremony at CLARB's Annual Meeting, typically held in the fall. The winning submission(s) are published nationally and distributed to legislators and related design professionals across North America. The Wayne Grace Student Design Competition commemorates Wayne Grace, who dedicated his life to the practice of landscape architecture and the advancement of the cause of licensure.
Graduate Study opportunities in LDA
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.
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)
EVENTS/SPEAKERS (UPCOMING AND RECENT):
2008's annual Senior Presentation Day will be held throughout 6/13/08 in four rooms on the second floor of the UCD Memorial Union. Friends and alumni are welcome to attend.
Graduating students and their families are invited to join us on Sunday the 15th for a Walker Hall reception preceding the CAES commencement ceremony.
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.
- 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.
6/17/08