Three teams from the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architecture have been recognized by The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) with 2021 student honor awards. Their design proposals address water scarcity at a major port city in China, the relationship between rural locales and bird habitat in Canada, and social inequity in the capital of Ecuador.
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“The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week”
T Magazine highlights OverTime, a new augmented reality app from Monument Lab, the public art and history studio led by Weitzman’s Paul Farber and Ken Lum.
“Next Progressives: PORT”
Christopher Marcinkoski, associate professor of landscape architecture, talks to Architect magazine about his firm’s ‘hyperbolic pragmatism’ and work enhancing civic life in urban realms.
“How Will We Remember This?”
Paul Farber, a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts and senior research scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space, talks to Justin Davidson about a COVID memorial that expresses shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.
“Alum Jessica Vaughn examines workplace space and culture in ICA solo exhibition”
Artist and alum Jessica Vaughn (MFA'11) examines the spaces, architecture, and cultures of the American workplace her first major solo exhibition, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
“Consensual Consumption: Orkan Telhan in Conversation with Meera Zassenhaus”
The associate professor of fine arts talks about Ouroboros Steak, a steak grown from human cells that he helped design as a critique of the meat industry, and the controversy it sparked.
“Rep. Jamaal Bowman Sees Climate As The Next Big Education Push After COVID-19 Reopenings”
An initiative led by Akira Drake Rodriguez, assistant professor of city and regional planning, and Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of The McHarg Center, informed Bowman's policy proposal.
