Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology, presented in late October 2013 at the International Forum in Beijing, China on the theme of the "Landscape Architecture of Tomorrow".
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.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study unveiled a public-art installation designed by MDesS students Keojin Jin and Juhun Lee as part of its capital campaign launch event on October 28.
The Landscape Architecture department is now accepting applications for the Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Book advocate Designers and Books publishes Professor Jorge Silvetti’s book list, comprised of 17 titles.
Felipe Correa's vision for the Metro de Quito was featured in Ottagono Magazine's September 2013 issue on smart cities (#263).
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.
Eve Blau lectured on Baku: Oil and Urbanism in Oslo on October 17.