Ben Ledbetter (MArch ’84) wins Construction Award for 2011

A recently completed project by Ben Ledbetter (MArch '84) has won first place in the Connecticut Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors Excellence in Construction Awards for 2011. 

Steven Landau (MArch ’86) develops Talking Tactile Campus Model

Steven Landau (MArch '86) of Touch Graphics, Inc. developed the Talking Tactile Campus Model at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA. 

Loeb Fellow Anna Heringer elected as International Fellow by Royal Institute of British Architects

Philip G. Freelon, LF ’90, appointed to Commission of Fine Arts by President Obama

Loeb Fellow Andres Lepik is new director of TU Munich Architecture Museum

Loeb Fellow Fills New Role at University of Chicago

Theaster Gates (LF '11) was recently appointed to a new role at the University of Chicago as the Director of Art and Public Life.  See the announcement.

Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, talks about the invention of GIS

Since its origins in the 1960s, GIS has enabled designers, planners, developers, public agencies, and communities to make better decisions about the shape of urbanization and its impact. GIS improves design and planning by using geographically referenced data on subjects ranging from the economy to ecology and beyond.

Theaster Gates (LF ’11) Solo Exhibit at MOCA, LA

The NCPC, with Loeb Fellows Marcel Acosta and Christine Saum, receives 2011 ASLA Honor Award for Analysis and Planning.

Loeb Fellows Theaster Gates (’11) and Kennedy Smith (’06) to be Featured Speakers at Cityworks (X)Po 2011