Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang and three landscape architecture recent graduates and undergraduate students Lauren Chapman, Jackson Kincaid, and Phoenix Jefferson, will be presenting their landscape performance study of Monon Boulevard and Midtown Plaza (Carmel, Indiana) in next week Landscape Architecture Foundation’s education webinar. The webinar on October 10th, titled “Midwest Gems,” will feature teams from The[Read More…]
UC Berkeley professor and artist Chip Sullivan and UC Davis professor and artist Elizabeth Boults gave lecture in the HLA Seminar on 09/21/2023 and led a sketch tour with the students enrolled in LA 32500. In this sketch tour, the students were drawing iconic spaces of the Purdue campus landscape in search of the genius[Read More…]
Elizabeth Boults (Continuing Lecturer- Landscape Architecture & Environmental Design – University of California, Davis) & Chip Sullivan (Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning – University of California, Berkeley). Thursday September 21st, at 3:30pm, HORT117 or join via Zoom. Wisdom of Place: Recovering the Sacred Origins of Landscape Abstract: Have you ever been alone in the woods[Read More…]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang led an independent study last fall and gathered five landscape architecture students to work on a children’s book that introduces Indiana native plants for K-12 populations. The final product, an illustrated children’s book, accompanying board game, school syllabus, and interactive activities, won a National Honor Award (Communication Category) from the American Society[Read More…]
Yiwei Huang‘s Lab welcome two new members, a Master of Science of Landscape System and Design student, Mya Hagerty, and a visiting scholar from Tuscany, Italy, Alessandra Baravaglia. Mya graduated with an undergraduate degree in Brain & Behavioral Sciences this past spring from Purdue University and is excited to combine her interests in a unique way in[Read More…]
The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture welcomes Erin Percevault, Assistant Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture. Erin Percevault joins Purdue University as the Assistant Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture. Before moving to the Midwest, she was based in New York City. She earned her professional degree, a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, from Louisiana[Read More…]
On Thursday August 17th, Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (INASLA) has hosted its annual Reception and 50th Anniversary Gala in Indianapolis. During the award ceremony, the 2023 student and professional awards were announced. Purdue Landscape Architecture students have won two of the four students awards. Carmel Chinese Garden Co- Envisioning. INASLA[Read More…]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang‘s book Outdoor Environments for People: Considering Human Factors in Landscape Design is available for pre-order. Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and incorporate their knowledge into places they help to create. Bridging research and practice, and drawing from disciplines such as[Read More…]
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