![[Marty Hylton (center), the new director of DCP’s program in Nantucket, Mass., reviews a project site with his students.]](http://info.uff.ufl.edu/DCP/Newsletters/Images/200906/Hylton.jpg)
Marty Hylton (center), the new director of DCP’s program in Nantucket, Mass., reviews a project site with his students.
Can you nominate an island to the World Heritage List?
That’s what Marty Hylton, the new director of DCP’s Preservation Institute: Nantucket, hopes to find out. He is working with students this summer to begin exploring the potential nomination of the cultural and natural resources of Nantucket to the prestigious World Heritage List. Read More
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Thanks to Pete and Holly Prugh for their years of dedication, inspiration and generosity to students in Preservation Institute: Nantucket. Hope you’re enjoying your summer "off-island"! |
DCP Top Destinations
for students studying abroad this summer
(listed in order by number of students)
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Students in UF’s Preservation Institute: Caribbean on site in the Tequila Valley, Jalisco, Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape. The Volcan de Tequila is in the background. |
- Hong Kong-China
- Mexico-Guadalajara
- Paris, France
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Kenya
- Bali
DCP In Your Town: Ft. Myers
and Tampa
DCP will be in Fort Myers July 23 to 25 for the 2009 FLASLA Annual Conference and Expo. LAE lecturer Glenn Acomb will present the education session "The Greening the Campus: A Landscape Architect’s Role in Green Design at the University of Florida." If you are attending the conference, be sure to look for a special UF reception following the Design Awards Gala on July 24. More information on this exclusive reception will be available via email and at the conference.
DCP also will be in Tampa July 29 to August 1 for the 2009 AIA Florida Annual Convention. The convention will feature a breakfast on July 31 sponsored by the UF School of Architecture.
Interior Design: Call for Nominations
The Department of Interior Design is currently accepting nominations for its 2009 Distinguished Alumni award. Visit the Web site for criteria and a list of past recipients. Email your nominations to Jeannie Summers by July 1, 2009.
Review: Lessons Learned? The History of Planning in Florida
Read Dean Christopher Silver’s review of Lessons Learned? The History of Planning in Florida, by Earl M. Starnes, ARC 1951 and URP professor emeritus, and Richard G. RuBino. The book analyzes the successes and failures of efforts to achieve a balance between competing interests and offers an opportunity to learn from Florida’s long and arduous history of planning and growth management.
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Check out what your fellow alumni are doing. We want to hear from you! Share your news with us for a future issue of Perspective Online. Fielding Featherston, M.Arch 2004, is the 2009-2010 programs committee director on the Board of Directors of the AIA Orlando Chapter. Fielding is also on the Design Committee 2009 for the Orlando Mills 50 Main Street District. Ruben Gil, ARC 2005,is an architect and graphic designer with Spacial Visions in Miami. Michael Goodwin, ARC 1980, has been employed by the U.S. Postal Service for 22 years. Michael is the manager of facilities field operations, overseeing the facilities activities for one of the largest building owners in the world. William Medellin, M.Arch 1985, was honored in April by The Dade Heritage Trust for an Outstanding Historic Restoration of Miami's first high school,"Old Miami High." George Seay, BCN 1985, CGC, LEED AP, and owner of Vanson Enterprises, Inc., is celebrating 18 years in business in Orlando. Cortnee Wood, ARC 2004, received a master’s degree at the University of Southern California in 2007. Cortnee is now working in Honolulu. |
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