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NDSU Landscape Architecture News. Cheers to 2023.
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This New Year newsletter marks the start of the 40th year of NDSU Landscape Architecture (although one of NDSU’s first Professors, C.B. Waldron, gave seminars around the state of North Dakota on “how to make a landscape” in the 1890s) and a celebration of many firsts for the Department. Our first alumni to be inducted as Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects, our first full six-year accreditation of the new Master of Landscape Architecture Degree, and our first alumni to receive the National ASLA honor award for emerging professionals.
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40 YEARS of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AT NDSU
Above: Students, Faculty, and Alumni gather in the Expo Hall at the ASLA conference in San Francisco. 19 students attended the conference and expo thanks to alumni and ASLA chapter support.
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“Our biggest challenge is keeping up with the market demand for Landscape Architecture graduates, but the prospective students touring our fine downtown facilities show great promise and thoughtfulness in their education.”
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CITY-SHAPING DESIGN STUDIO STUDY TOUR NYC
September ushered our studio travel back en masse with transformative field experiences in New York, NY, Medora, ND, and San Francisco, CA, respectively. Professor Fischer led students on an urban design and privately owned public space-focused study through New York City.
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Educational highlights include an insightful construction tour of the East Midtown Waterfront esplanade led by project landscape architects from Stantec’s Manhattan office and the senior Vice President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and an inspiring Snøhetta office tour in lower Manhattan replete with physical models (including one of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library site) real collaborative studio spaces, and model shops for building.
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The Theodore Roosevelt Experience in Medora, ND.
Following the New York City trip, the 2nd year and 5th year students followed in Teddy Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch footsteps. They spent an evening under the stars in the Cottonwood Campground of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Sidenote: Theodore Roosevelt National Park was master planned by Landscape Architect Weldon Gratton as part of the WPA in the 1930s and constructed using local materials, collaboration with local artisans, and local civilians. Our students and (3) faculty attended an exquisite evening overlooking the badlands, dining on Native American cuisine created by chef Candance Stock and hearing healing words from the ND Governor (bottom photo), Theodore (Ted) Roosevelt IV, and (3) North Dakota Tribal Leaders. The following day under a clear sky and fierce wind, students hiked the future library site with Snøhetta’s leading landscape architects, Matt McMahon and Michelle Delk mapping out invasive species and visualizing a design future for the next generation. We are welcoming Michelle as a keynote speaker at the beginning design student conference being hosted by the NDSU School of Design, Architecture, and Art on May 18-20, 2023. Joe Wiegand (TR scholar and performer) gave us a fitting whistlestop farewell and a new travel mascot – keep an eye on Instagram for Teddy’s bear shenanigans!
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2022 ASLA CONFERENCE AWARDS x 3 in SAN FRAN.
2022 was a record-setting year for NDSU Landscape Architecture alumni receiving National American Society of Landscape Architecture awards. Two alumni, Joan Floura ’91 and Michael Stanley ’02, were inducted as Fellows of ASLA! Fellowship is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and recognizes the contributions of these individuals to their profession and society at large based on their works, leadership and management, knowledge, and service.
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In addition, Kene Okigbo ’15, received the Emerging Professional Medal at the ASLA presidential dinner, and graciously invited our current ASLA student chapter president, Aftyn Lehman to attend. The department, along with the alumni donors, and the Nebraska Dakota’s Chapter of ASLA sponsored 19 students to travel and attend the conference in San Francisco and take part in our alumni tailgate.
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The semester wrapped up with a joint studio exhibit on the 3rd floor of Klai Hall which included the Site Elements Studio led by Professor of Practice Jason Kost and the City-Shaping Studio led by Chair and Associate Professor, Dominic Fischer. .
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More NDSU Landscape Architecture-related events are coming soon.
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