Andrea Hansen is named the 2013–14 Marie M. Bickham Chair in Landscape Architecture at the Louisiana State University College of Art + Design Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA), pending approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors in December.
Héctor Tarrido-Picart (MLA & MAUD ’15) and Andreas Viglakis (MAUD '14) win notable distinction for See-through-maps competition sponsored by the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative in association with the Mapping and its Discontents symposium.
ONE PRIZE, an annual design and science award to promote green design in cities, awards GSD graduate Kenya Endo (MLA ’13) the winner of the 2013 “stormproof” competition.
Book advocate Designers and Books publishes Professor Jorge Silvetti’s book list, comprised of 17 titles.
Lukas Pauer (MAUD '14) will publish the essay “Peak Sand: On the Limits of Resource Extraction Urbanisms in the Straits of Singapore” in the forthcoming Critical Planning 20: The Future, a graduate student-run publication of the UCLA Urban Planning Department.
Michael Van Valkenburgh is featured in the November-December 2013 issue of Harvard Magazine.
Students who took part in Günther Vogt's fall 2012 studio option will be showcasing their work on alternative Urban Design futures in London from November 2 to November 5.
GSD alumni launch Manifest, a new American architecture and urbanism journal.
Sunggi Park (MArch ’14) was in Seoul, Korea, last week to accept first prize in an international competition sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
“Off-Modern: Ruins of the Future,” one of the special projects of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, includes work by Allen Sayegh and Rem Koolhaas.