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David Hinson, Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) was one of three faculty from Auburn University selected as SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) fellows. The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) is a professional development program that seeks to identify, prepare and advance academic leaders for roles within SEC institutions and beyond. It has two components: a university-level development program designed by each institution for its own participants and two, three-day, SEC-wide workshops held on specified campuses for all program participants.

The School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (APLA) is one of three U.S. Universities to receive a 2012 NCARB Award from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB for “Studio: Urban Healthcare,” a proposal developed by proposal, developed by Professor Christian Dagg and Professor Kevin Moore. “Studio:  Urban Healthcare” was designed to support APLA faculty collaborations with practicing architects and other design professionals with specialized expertise in healthcare architecture while providing critique and direction to fourth year architecture students as they design a small urban hospital.

Cheryl Morgan, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Urban Studio, has been recognized as one of this year’s SMART Women at the inaugural SMART Party, hosted by The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham, on October 11, 2012 in Birmingham, Alabama. The award from the Women’s Fund recognizes Morgan, a well-known champion for underserved constituencies, and the efforts of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama for their work with small town communities across the State.

The U.S. Green Building Council named  three alumni from the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture to the 2012 class of LEED Fellows: Carlie Bullock-Jones ’99 (Interior Design), Holley Henderson ‘93 (Interior Design), and Paula Vaughan ‘82 (Architecture) are among those named to the green building industry’s most prestigious professional designation.

The College of Architecture, Design and Construction honored its students, alumni, staff and friends on October 25, 2012. Several APLA students and faculty were honored. Outstanding Undergraduate award recipients were Allyson Klinner (Architecture), Nicholas Purcell (Interior Architecture), Marjorie Woodbury (Landscape Architecture), and Franchesca Taylor (Community Planning). APLA supporter Patrick Davis received an award for Distinguished Service, and Professor David Hill received the Outstanding Teaching Award. Three former faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA), Robert Faust, D.K. Ruth and Samuel Mockbee, were named Emeritus Professors at the CADC ceremony, and recognized for their long term and significant contributions to the architecture program, and to the School.

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Students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) took first place in this year’s student design competition. Held in conjunction with NOMA’s annual conference in Atlanta, GA, October 20-22, 2011, the student design competition challenged teams to balance the historic character of Atlanta’s Washington Park/Vine City communities while developing a new MARTA Transit Village that preserved and enhanced the existing corridor. Competing against 15 teams from across the country, the Auburn team’s design of The Vine City Village won the first place prize of $1,500.  Auburn University’s student team was Damian Bolden, Phillip Ewing, Sarahgrace Godwin, Kyle Johnson, Weng Lon Lao, Tanner Backman, Jordan Cox, Andrew Dolder, Yesufu O’ladipo, and  Laura Taylor.

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The 2013-2014 academic year marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of Auburn University Rural Studio.  Founded in 1993 by Sambo Mockbee and D.K. Ruth, the Studio’s rich existence in rural West Alabama is rooted in building relationships and earning trust from neighbors and friends in the community while immersing architecture students in the culture. Living, learning and working in West Alabama has afforded School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture students the opportunity to apply their skills as designers, while also learning about the nature, history, culture, economy, architecture and community in this unique educational landscape. Rural Studio would like to celebrate and honor the place and its people, which have allowed them to thrive while maintaining rigor and passion.

Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (APLA) has been gaining some recognition from some of its youngest alumnae/former students. First, Courtney Brett, and then, Rosannah Sandoval, became the AIA’s youngest licensed architects, in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Ms. Brett, who transferred to Auburn University’s School of Architecture when she was 16, was a Rural Studio participant who graduated in 2007, at age 20. Ms. Brett recently started her own firm, Casburn Brett Architecture, based out of Daphne, Alabama. Ms. Sandoval has a similar story, in that she finished school at the age of 18. At Auburn, she participated in Rural Studio. When her family relocated to California, Ms. Sandoval transferred to California College of the Arts, where she completed her degree. In 2013, Ms. Sandoval became the, now, youngest active Architect member of the AIA, at 23. She works as a designer in Perkins + Will’s San Francisco office

Associate Professor Doug Burleson has retired from the architecture program faculty this May, 2013. Prof. Burleson joined the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture’s (APLA) faculty in 1986, and the span of his teaching roles has covered a broad spectrum of studio year-levels and lecture topics. In addition to teaching in the professional curriculum, Prof. Burleson has taught the Architecture Appreciation course to non-architecture majors for the past six years.

The Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) is pleased to announce a new sponsored student competition. Marvin Windows by Dale Inc, a premier manufacturer of made-to-order wood and clad wood windows, will make an annual in support of awards for the APLA Portfolio Design Competition for fourth year architecture students. The sponsorship comes as a philanthropic gift from the company to the school through the Auburn University Foundation, and will be focused on helping students in the architecture program prepare for their professional careers. As the centerpiece of this support, the architecture program’s annual student portfolio competition has  become the Marvin Windows by Dale Inc Portfolio Competition. Marvin Windows by Dale Inc will also provide technical support for classroom instruction regarding windows and other building enclosure systems. The winners of this year’s competition are:  1st place, Justin Collier; Merit Award, Whitney Johnson, Merit Award, Taiwei Wang.

The Alabama Forestry Association has been sponsoring “wood comp,” second year architecture student design competition, for more than forty years. Participating in this competition has become a milestone experience for generations of Auburn Architecture graduates. During spring semester 2013 the 2nd year students design a branch library for a site  located in Bibb City, Georgia. To prepare for the project, the students traveled throughout the region to view examples of contemporary library designs as well as to gain insight into the changing role of this public institution in today’s electronic age. Winners of the 2013 competition are:  First Place, Kyle Kiersey; Second Place, Timothy Fuerst; Third Place, George Criminale.  Honorable Mentions were awarded to the following:  Lia Bernhardt, Kaylee Bruce, Krystal Duchene, Valyn Daconto.

Several students and faculty from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture have been honored with annual awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The Campus Rain Works Collaborative Team received an ASLA Student Award of Merit for their collaborative design entitled Auburn University Daylighting of Parkerson Mill Creek. The team consisted of landscape architecture students–Maria Hines, Dale Speetjens, Pratisha Shakya, Chen Fan and Xue Hao; architecture students–Brad Green & Cynthia Baker; Jaron Benett, Building Science and Amanda Meder, Horticulture.  Faculty/ staff mentors for the project were:  Darren Olsen, Building Science; Amy Wright, Horticulture; Paul Zorr, Architecture; Charlene LeBleu, Landscape Architecture and Stephen Everett, Auburn University Campus Planning.

Xue Hao, a 2013 graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program, received an ASLA Student Award of Honor for Community Design & Service. Elements of the winning project, Rugged Sidewalk and Famous People Wall Elements, will be utilized for redevelopment of the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Civil Rights Trail. The Award of Honor is the highest design award given in landscape architecture. Xue Hao’s work is part of the 2012 Spring LAND 6330 Studio IV taught by Charlene LeBleu, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture. 

HILLworks:  landscape + architecture, the design practice of assistant professor David Hill was recognized by the ASLA with two awards.  The Phrenology Project was awarded a 2013 Merit Award in Research for its investigation into the dynamic spatial qualities of plants through the seasons.  The Transformation Garden, designed for a private residence in Auburn, Alabama, was awarded a 2013 Award of Merit in Design. 

Charlene Lebleu, Associate Professor in the Master of Landscape Architecture program, presented the paper and a poster at the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) World Congress in Auckland, New Zealand, April 11.  The peer-reviewed paper entitled “Designing Africa in Alabama, USA” describes the historic significance of AfricaTown in Mobile County, AL, an area where the descendants of the last recorded group of captive Africans brought to the United States continue to live and make their home.  The paper highlights studio proposals to commemorate the history in the form of a State Park. The poster, “Plaza Independencia—Plaza Formation & Expression: Montevideo, Uruguay,” was co-authored with Marjorie Woodbury, a 2012 graduate of the MLA program. LeBleu and Woodbury traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay in fall 2011 to study urban plazas and continue to collaborate on projects.

Professor Rod Barnett, Program Chair for the Landscape Architecture program, has authored, Emergence in Landscape Architecture (Routledge, 2013).  Emergence in Landscape Architecture attempts to describe how landscape architects can frame their practices in response to the increasingly dramatic disturbances of the 21st century and  charts the development of new realms of interaction in our cities, in forgotten industrial landscapes and across the farms, streams and woodlands of the countryside.

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Marlon Blackwell Architect has received a 2013 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas. In an “aggressive adaptive reuse,” an existing metal shop building was transformed into a sanctuary and fellowship hall. Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, a 1980 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, is founder and principal of Marlon Blackwell Architect and is a Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.

Third Year architecture students completed the annual “Concrete Comp” at the end of Fall Semester 2012. This competition is sponsored by the Alabama Concrete Industries Association, which provides funding for cash awards to the winning students. Winners included:  First Place, Michael Brudi “HandMade in Alabama”; Second Place, Alex Hays, “C2S”; Third Place, Alexandra Buehning, “Structural Glass CMU.”

4th year architecture celebrated the end of Fall 2012 with the 51st Annual Alagasco Student Design competition. This year’s challenge:  design a new 225,000 SF hospital in Boston on Parcel 11B, located on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a vibrant public corridor created by the monumental public works project of the “Big Dig.” This prominent location suggests a Children’s Hospital is a civic institution and a complex technical and cultural challenge.

Juried by a distinguished and varied panel of professionals including healthcare experts, faculty and architectural professionals, the projects were recognized for their complexity and range, as well as the thoroughness of the design solutions. First place was awarded to Whitney Johnson, second place to Cody Bryant and third place to Samuel Maddox. Honorable mentions were also awarded to Jeffrey Bak, Sean Flaharty, Samantha O’Leary, Austin Powers and Ruben Quesada Alvarado. These students attended the AIA Montgomery Design Awards Gala on December 4 where their final presentations were on display. Awards were made possible by generous support from Alagasco.

The Spring 2013 Lecture Series of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning is entitled “Love & Hate: Points of View, Perspectives & Personalities” and is a continuation of the series of the same title from the Fall of 2012. The lectures this year focus on depth as opposed to breadth in the design practice. Lecturers will discuss specific project(s) of the designer’s choice rather than a survey of their respective portfolios with an emphasis on the design process beyond the finished product—often a means to an end. Lecturers will elaborate on the trials and tribulations of specific building endeavors in their recent past—the surprises, the small and large successes and the details of a project cycle.

APLA is particularly pleased to add a variety of speakers this spring including, architects, planners and historians. Scheduled speakers/presentations include:  Chris Leong , a founding partner of Leong Leong; a screening of the film Conversations with Architects, a film produced by Merrill Elam of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, Helen Han, architect and filmmaker, and Margaret Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University; Julie Snow, FAIA of Julie Snow Architects; Marla Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans; Nasser Rabbat, the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.

Jack Williams, Professor Emeritus Auburn University, was invited to lecture at Beijing Forestry University in October as part of the University’s celebration of its 60th anniversary. Professor Williams and Beijing Forestry University’s faculty celebrated twenty years of friendship between the two universities Beijing Forestry University’s School of Landscape Architecture is China’s oldest and largest landscape architecture program and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in planning, urban design and landscape architecture.

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Director of Auburn University’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama, Professor Cheryl Morgan, served as team leader for an AIA Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) in the Rockaways, New York. Cheryl has previously participated on one of R/UDAT’s Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) projects, and was instrumental to the R/UDAT project held in Birmingham, Alabama in 2011, following the devastating tornado that struck Pratt City.

Master of Community Planning (MCP) program graduate students, Valecia Wilson, Xibei Song and Chen Fan, received 2nd prize from the Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association (ALAPA) for their class work in Professor Jay Mittal’s 2012 Fall Semester Urban Economics Class.

Professor David Hill’s design firm, HILLworks, was recently awarded a 2013 Watermark Grand Award honors from publications BUILDER and CUSTOM HOME for his project, “274 Bragg Kitchen” in Auburn, Alabama.  The Watermark Design Awards were created to recognize involvement in the process of innovative kitchen and bath design and construction. Hill is a Prof. in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture’s (APLA) Master of Landscape Architecture Program.

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Magdalena Garmaz, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, will serve as the Interim Program Chair for the college-wide Bachelors of Environmental Design major. Her two-year term appointment is effective on August 16, 2012.

Auburn University Architecture Thesis student work was recently featured in an exhibition during the first annual ‘Montgomery Street Fair’ on April 21, 2012. The event was produced by Helicity Montgomery, a local non-profit that seeks to be a catalyst for the continued cultural and social development of the City of Montgomery and surrounding areas through arts and community engagement. For several years, Auburn architecture has cultivated a thesis studio that explores the possibilities of the urban revitalization of downtown Montgomery; with each passing year the projects have become more and more relevant to the conversation about how to improve Montgomery’s urban landscape. By working with the City of Montgomery Department of Development and local architects, professors Behzad Nakhjavan and Magdalena Garmaz have immersed their students in tangible issues, shaping the would be hypothetical explorations into increasingly applicable design solutions for Montgomery.   Several Projects have been selected to be showcased further at Department of Development at a reception in early June.

Brandon Block, a May 2012 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was one of two top winners in the “Live.Work.Learn” student architecture contest announced at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, DC. Sponsored by Boral Bricks, the contest was planned in collaboration with the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and required students to design a live/work building using brick for 70 percent of the exterior siding. Entries were judged on their excellence in live/work design and creative use of bricks by a panel representing industry leadership in the architecture, brick, and building industries. Block’s winning design was part of his undergraduate comprehensive thesis project developed under the direction of Professor Behzad Nakhjavan.

Dr. Rod Barnett, Chair of the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and Dr. Paul Cullen, A Fulbright Scholar visiting from AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, have collaborated to produce an exhibition entitled “Contingency” on display in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction Gallery. This collaborative project has involved an investigation of a range of urban sites in Auburn and Birmingham, AL and speculations on their possible development and regeneration. Dr. Barnett and Dr. Cullen have used photographs, models, and drawings to present their speculative responses to these sites.

Dean’s Executive Board member, Patrick B. Davis, Jr., FAIA, has been appointed by Governor Robert Bentley to the Alabama Board of Architects.  Davis, member of The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects, has nearly four decades of experience as an architect specializing in all aspects of healthcare planning and design. He is employed with CMH Architects, Inc., in Birmingham, AL, as Vice President of Healthcare Services.

Donald C. Brown, FAIA, from AIA Montgomery, was elected 2013-14 AIA Vice President. A 1971 graduate of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Brown is owner and lead principal of Brown Studio Architecture in Montgomery.

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Fourth year interior architecture students Jeffrey Bak, Chloe Schultz and Sean Flaharty won the Innovator’s Jury Award in the 2013 American Institute of Architecture Students’ Reinventing HOME© Student Design Competition. Their design, “Sun and Stone: A Case for Spatial Sequencing through Thermal Variation,” addressed the challenge of designing innovative homes and workplaces for those who live and work in long-term care settings. Christian Dagg, interior architecture program chair in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, was the team advisor.

Professor Behzad Nakhjavan , chair of the architecture program at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture has been granted a visiting artist Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome this July, 2013.  Professor Nakhjavan plans to catalogue a series of Roman architectural urban contexts from the Classical to Baroque period during the visit. 

The Cahaba Blueway Project was inaugurated recently with an announcement for the first recreational site planned for development.  The “Moon River” canoe launch, on land provided by the Freshwater Land Trust, will be located on between Irondale and Leeds, AL on US Hwy 78. The Cahaba Blueway Project is a team effort between Alabama Innovation Engine, the Cahaba River Society and the Nature Conservancy.  Alabama Innovation Engine is a design-based community and economic development initiative, jointly funded by Auburn University and the University of Alabama.

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In the fall of 2010, the Elmore County Economic Development Authority approached the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture for help envisioning design options for a new interpretive center at the site of a five-mile wide meteor impact crater in Wetumpka, Alabama.  Today the remains of this crater create one of the only accessible ocean impact craters in the world, and the ECEDA hopes the facility will one day become part of a “trail” of science and space related attractions that would begin the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Sixty second-year architecture students, under the direction of Professors Justin Miller, Ryan Salvas, Bob Faust, and Robert Sproull developed design proposals for the facility as part of an annual competition sponsored by the Alabama Forestry Association and the City of Wetumpka.  The students’ designs were judged by a panel of architects and special guests from Elmore County who included Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis.  The winning model, belonging to student Ryan Zimmerman, was unveiled at a press conference and reception at the City of Wetumpka Administration Building on August 23.

The City of Wetumpka and ECEDA are currently working with Auburn University Montgomery’s Center for Government to complete various grant applications for the project and hope to break ground on the crater center by January 1, 2015.

_Andrew Freear, Wiatt Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Director of the Rural Studio, was included in the Oxford American’s ”The Most Creative Teachers in the South” (August 2011, Issue 74).

One of thirteen educators chosen from throughout the region, Freear was included among “Influential educators admired by their students and colleagues, whose classrooms serve as forums for social change, whose homes become their classroom, and in some cases, whose assignments become homes.”

Professor Christian Dagg, Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Interior Architecture program, has been named Acting Head of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture while Professor David Hinson completes a sabbatical leave.

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Charlene LeBleu, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, has been elected to the American Society of Landscape Architecture’s Council of Fellows, the highest honor that ASLA bestows upon its members. LeBleu, who joined the faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in 2004, was nominated by Alabama ASLA chapter for her contribution of knowledge to the profession of landscape architecture and for her lifelong pursuit of research, education and leadership in storm water research, design, and implementation. She will be inducted into the Council of Fellows at the ASLA annual meeting in Boston on November 17, 2013. LeBleu is the third ASLA Fellow in the State of Alabama, and the first woman Fellow in Alabama since 1899.

Ivan Vanchev and Doug Bacon, students in the Master of Integrated Design and Construction program, received an Honorable Mention  in the 2013 Leicester B. Holland Prize: A Single Sheet Measured Design Competition for their drawing, “Auburn Oaks and Toomer’s Corner.” Thier drawing will be put in the Library of Congress and will be available on the National Park Service website as part of the Historic America Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER).  Vanchev and Bacon produced their entry as part of an independent study directed by Professor Rebecca Retzlaff.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) was well represented  when winners were recently announced for the 2013 Birmingham AIA Design Awards competition. Many Honor and Merit Awards were awarded to alumni-led teams and firms. Williams Blackstock Architecture (Joel Blackstock ’80), Dungan Nequette Architects (Jeff Dungan  ’93 and Louis Nequette ’93), Live Design Group  (Aubrey Garrison III ’66, Craig Krawczyk ’97, Jeff Quinn ’78) and GA Studio (several Auburn alumni associates and interns) were among those represented in multiple award categories.

APLA alumnus Samuel “Jack” Bassett (’08) is one of six young professionals chosen by the Design Futures Council as an Emerging Leader for 2013. Each honoree will receive  a scholarship to attend the 12th annual Leadership Summit on Sustainable Design to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in October. The annual summit brings together a delegation of 100 people from the world’s most influential design, engineering and construction firms to explore innovation in sustainable design. The scholarship is sponsored by DuPont Building Innovations as a way to invest in the young talent in the design and construction industry.

 

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Two faculty members from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction will be awarded the Distinguished Design-Build Leadership Award from the Design-Build Institute of America. The co-directors of the CADC’s Masters of Integrated Design and Construction program (formerly the Design-Build program) Paul Holley and Joshua Emig will receive the Distinguished Design-Build Leadership Award in the Faculty category at DBIA’s Design-Build Conference and Expo in Orlando, FL on October 20. Holley, Aderholdt Professor in the School of McWhorter School of Building Science, and Emig, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, will be recognized for their work in establishing the collaborative integrated design and construction program at Auburn.

 The Green for Life! project has been added to the National ASLA website as a Case Study for Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management.  This demonstration project, created by College of Architecture, Design and Construction students, was awarded the Best Community Design Award by the Alabama Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects in Birmingham on March 26, 2011 and received the Outstanding Team Project Award from the Alabama Chapter of American Planning Association in Eufaula on April 1, 2011. Under the direction of Charlene LeBleu, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Rebecca O’Neal Dagg, Interim Dean of the CADC, and Carla Jackson Bell, CADC Director of Multicultural Affairs, the project took a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to solving the Center’s storm water runoff problems and creating a companion watershed education program.

For the final event planned in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ongoing sponsorship from Alagasco, the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture hosted a two day reunion for Alagasco members and past winners of the Alagasco Student Design Competition.  Festivities began with a dinner graciously hosted by Auburn University’s own President and Mrs. Gogue, and held at the President’s home on Auburn University’s campus.  Activities continued on the following day and included an exhibit of past and present Alagasco Student Design Competition work, followed by lunch and a discussion between current students and past design winners.  The School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture is proud of the long relationship forged with Alagasco and looks forward to 50 more years of involvement.

On October 12 the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture gathered to celebrate the donors of over 30 scholarships along with the student recipients.  

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