Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes '14) has won the 2014 Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS (Graduate Category) for his entry, “Temporal Morphology: Synthetic Growth and Natural Decline of Alameda Island.”
The GSD is well represented among the The Graham Foundation's 2014 Grants to Individuals.
Research projects by Alexander Arrojo (MLA '13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD '13) were featured in the February issue of Landscape Architecture Frontiers.
GA Collaborative, the non-profit design organization of Zaneta Hong (lecturer in landscape architecture and MLA I '07), Michael Leighton Beaman (MArch '03), James Setzler (MArch '05), and Yutaka Sho (MArch '05) is EDRA's 2014 Place Design Award recipient for the “Masoro Village Project."
Charles Waldheim, FAAR, John E. Irving Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture, delivered a public lecture to The Arts Club of Chicago on the subject of his forthcoming book-length history of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
The garden exhibit Tiny Taxonomy, designed by Rosetta Elkin (lecturer of landscape architecture) will be on display at Belgrave Square in London May 16-31.
Jill Desimini, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, will give a talk at the Library of Congress on Friday, May 16 at 1:30pm as part of its conference From Terra to Terabytes: The History of 20th Century Cartography and Beyond.
All three winning teams in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s annual Affordable Housing Development Competition featured members of the Urban Planning and Design Department.
Michelle Arevalos Franco (MLA I ’15) recently received the news that she won the American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellowship. The prize provides $18k to fund Franco’s last year at Harvard and any research or independent projects she takes on during the fellowship year.
Oficinaa, the firm of Silvia Benedito (assistant professor in landscape architecture) and Alexander Häusler (MArch II '04) is featured in Landscape Architecture Frontiers with the project “Lichtung.”