LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD 2024 OLINGER LECTURE LYDIA GIKAS COOK SENIOR ASSOCIATE: REED HILDERBRAND Reed Hilderbrand is a collective investigation into the power of design and the designed landscape. We work from a deep conviction about the impact of our discipline to reform and to transform, to conserve and to invent. We seek to…Read more about 2024 Olinger Lecture: Lydia Gikas Cook[Read More]
The case study report of the performance evaluation of Carmel Monon Boulevard and Midtown Plaza (by Yiwei Huang’s lab) has been published to the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s award-winning Landscape Performance Series! The study is funded through Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Case Study Investigation (CSI) program, which offers a unique research collaboration and training program for faculty,…Read more about Dr. Yiwei Huang’s Lab Published Case Study[Read More]
Wanting Zhang (MS student in Huang’s Lab) and Yiwei Huang published an interview piece (with site design horticulture director Mark Jirik) about “Planting Design for Children’s Spaces.” The piece is published on the official American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Practice Networks (PPN) online story website, The Field. ASLA Field was created to give members…Read more about Wanting Zhang and Yiwei Huang Published ASLA Field Article[Read More]
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 about Huang and students team presenting at Landscape Architecture Foundation’s national education webinar[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 about Chip Sullivan and Elizabeth Boults Lead Sketch Tour with LA Students[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 about 2023 HLA Fall Seminar: Elizabeth Boults and Chip Sullivan – Wisdom of Place: Recovering the Sacred Origins of Landscape[Read More]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang‘s coauthored book, Outdoor Environments for People: Considering Human Factors in Landscape Design, is officially published through Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. A complimentary hard copy is available in the department if anyone would like to read it. Purdue library also has the online access available for eBook version.
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 about Landscape Architecture Team Won National ASLA Honor Award[Read More]