2012 Urban Design Conference videos available for viewing
If you missed the 2012 Urban Design Conference at the Raleigh Convention Center this past March, you can still get a chance to view it online. NC State University College of Design in conjunction with the Department of City Planning, Urban Design Center and NC State Foundation presents: Urban Reset: Green. Smart. Just In the [...]
Spring has officially sprung: Some natural thoughts by Jesse Turner and Sarah Werner, NLI design associates
BY JESSE TURNER and SARAH WERNER, Natural Learning Initiative Follow on Twitter @naturalearningi or Like on Facebook. It’s been a weird winter, if you could even call it that. Raleigh has hardly seen a skiff of snow, wool coats remain closeted, and last week oak trees were already budding. It’s early March and the ornamental [...]
Faculty Notes for February 2012
Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios and Architecture Alumna Katie Wakeford’s book “Bridging the Gap: Public-Interest Architectural Internships” was reviewed by AIACC. Read the review at: http://aiacc.org/2012/02/16/bridging-the-gap-public-interest-architectural-internships/ ### Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Andrew Fox was profiled on Raleigh Obscura. Read the profile at: http://raleighobscura.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/andy-fox/ ### Architecture Professor Patrick Rand delivered two invited presentations to architects [...]
Natural Learning Initiative explores sensory gardens for early childhood
Sensory gardens provide intimate spaces where young children can be immersed in the scents, textures, and the colors of plants and related elements. Along with specially selected plants, sensory gardens may also include elements such as wind chimes, wind socks, flags, and children’s art. Two popular forms sensory gardens take are sensory pathways and keyhole [...]
Alumni, students, and faculty in the news
Alumni, Students, and Faculty in the News Philip Freelon, architect of record of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum The Washinton Post AIA NC’s new Center for Architecture and Design The News & Observer An embassy for architecture The News & Observer NCSU team wins Disney attraction design contest The News & Observer Raleigh Denim draws a crowd in [...]
Windle Wins Chili Cook Off Sponsored by WILA
The Women in Landscape Architecture (WILA) sponsored a chili cook off on Friday, February 3, 2012 engaging in cross disciplinary socialization and to raise money for the Department of Landscape Architecture sponsored WILA Professional Lecture. Master of Landscape Architecture student Bethany Windle took first place with her homemade chili while Steve Judge and Drew Crumpton [...]
Interested in Smart Urban Environments? Sign up for the Urban Design Forum on 3/16-17
NC State University College of Design/City of Raleigh Planning Department Urban Design Forum Design for Children, Families and Nature in the City March 16 | Marbles Kids Museum With the theme of parks, pathways and meaningful destinations, the 5th annual Growing in Place Symposium, organized by the Natural Learning Initiative, will focus on urban landscape [...]
2012 Summer Employment Opportunities for Students with the National Park Service
SUMMER JOBS WITH HABS/HAER/HALS The Heritage Documentation Programs (Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey), a division of the National Park Service, seeks applications from qualified students for summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, engineering and landscape significance throughout the country. Duties involve on-site field work and the preparation [...]
Spring 2012 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series Kicks Off with Carol Franklin, FASLA
“The Necessity of Systems Thinking in Making, Preserving, Restoring and Creating Landscapes” Carol Franklin RLA, FASLA, Andropogon Associates, Ltd. January 23, 2012 at 6 p.m. in Burns Auditorium Systems thinking is a more accurate view of reality, where landscape components are understood as parts of an interacting, interrelated and interdependent system with the need for [...]
Boone serves on Pratt City disaster response team
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Kofi Boone served on an American Institute of Architects Urban Design Assistance Team (AIA R/UDAT) in Pratt City, Alabama in October 2011. Professor Boone was asked to provide ecological systems and environmental justice support for Pratt City, a community in Birmingham, which received national attention due to devastation caused by [...]
