WEST LAFAYETTE, IN (November 15, 2024) – The Living Landscapes podcast, hosted by undergraduate and graduate student staff with the Purdue University Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), launches today. This podcast delves into the fascinating world of landscape architecture, exploring how this field can help create thriving communities and sustainable environments. Listeners can…Read more about New Podcast Explores the Intersection of Community and Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture[Read More]
Dr. Aaron Thompson, Director of the Center for Community & Environmental Planning, joined together with project partners to celebrate National Bison Day on Saturday, November 2nd and witness the ribbon cutting on significant visitor facility improvements at The Nature Conservancy’s Efroymson Prairie at Kankakee Sands. This 3-year partnership is a testament to the power of collaboration between…Read more about Dr. Aaron Thompson Joins Celebration on National Bison Day with Ribbon Cutting at Efroymson Prairie[Read More]
Ishraq Awashra and Grace Lentz (Dr. Thompson’s lab) presented our research at the Institute for a Sustainable Future 2nd Annual Research Expo on Monday, October 14th. Ishraq’s poster presentation topic: AI Text-to-Image for Participatory Design. Grace’s poster presentation topic: Navigating Conservation Planning through Social and Ecological Structures in Northwest Indiana.
Last week, several Landscape Architecture faculty and students traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the American Society of Landscape Architecture’s annual conference. Purdue alumni gatherings were well attended, and undergraduate students had lots of opportunities to meet, talk, and receive career development guidance from alumni.
On Thursday, September 12th, Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (INASLA) hosted its annual Award Gala at Muncie, Indiana. During the award ceremony, the 2024 state chapter student and professional awards were announced. Purdue Landscape Architecture students have won three of the five students awards this year: Legacy Lookout: Bison, Biodiversity, and…Read more about Landscape Architecture Students Won State ASLA Awards[Read More]
This summer, two of Yiwei Huang‘s co-authored/contributed articles were published. In 2022-2023, Yiwei Huang collaborated with Dr. Weijie Hu, whom she met at the 2020 AAG conference, to write an article exploring whether place attachment can be formed in Public Rental Housing in China. The article has now been published in Urban Geography: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2024.2362507 In…Read more about Yiwei Huang Contributed to Two New Publications[Read More]
After the children’s illustrated book on Indiana Native Plants (Monsters Love Native Blooms) was officially included in ASLA’s initiative, “STEM Literacy by Design,” ASLA invited the authors to a national webinar to discuss their reflections and inspirations regarding the journey. They will be featured in the 2nd Meet the Authors: STEM Literacy by Design series,…Read more about Children’s Book Authors to Be Featured in National ASLA Webinar[Read More]
My name is Emily Slade and I am a community planning intern at USI Consultants. Here I work in the landscape architecture and planning department on projects ranging from complete streets to revitalizing parks. Here I have been learning a lot about the technical and economic aspects of the career, as well as detailing in…Read more about HLA Ambassadors’ Summer Internships – Emily Slade[Read More]
Purdue Agriculture featured a story on John Collier (1984/Landscape Architecture) and how he and other landscape architects shaped iconic locations at Purdue University: Who designed the Gateway Arch? & other footprints left by landscape architects on Purdue’s campus.
Landscape Systems and Design master’s student Mya Hagerty attended the Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) International Conference in Portland, Oregon last week. She presented her in-progress master’s thesis work as a part of the Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop, and was selected as a result of this presentation along with 3 other graduate students (out…Read more about Mya Hagerty Attended EDRA International Conference[Read More]