The 2024 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Conference was successfully held at St. Louis, MO. Four landscape architecture faculty attended the conference, including Erin Percevault, Sean Rotar, David Barbarash, and Yiwei Huang. The featured presentations are: “Combining Cohorts: A case study of student integration and experiences” presented by Sean Rotar and Dave Barbarash “Simulating Sites: predictive human behavior in proposed designs” presented[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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]