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…]
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…]
Yiwei Huang as the chair for the national American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA), together with committee members and her close connections, put together an online article called “Words of Wisdom for Our 2023 Landscape Architecture Graduates.” This article is to show the support and offer some valuable advice to graduating students who are about[Read More…]
Purdue Landscape Architecture undergraduate students, Autumn McNinch, Chloe Kennedy, Molly Wimberg, together with Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang, have been presenting the Carmel Chinese Garden Conceptual Plan in the past two weeks, to different stakeholders to solicit feedbacks and revision suggestions. Students have the chances to present the engagement effort and concept plans to the Carmel[Read More…]
David Barbarash, Yiwei Huang, and Sean Rotar attended the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Conference last week. All three presented recent research work. Yiwei presented a paper, joined a panel presentation, and collaborated on a research poster with recent graduate Yuan Zhang. David and Sean presented a paper, and David attended the meetings[Read More…]