Architecture senior Joseph Murguido's design of a new library and media center for San Martin de las Cañas, located in the Tequila Valley, Jalisco, Mexico - a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape. This summer, graduate and undergraduate architecture students, led by Co-Directors Alfonso Perez-Mendez and William Tilson, created designs for public buildings in San Martin as part of the PI:C Mexico Summer Program.

DCP legendary professor receives top national recognition

Herrick Smith, FASLA, UF professor emeritus of landscape architecture, will receive the American Society of Landscape Architects Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal Award on October 1 at the President's Award Dinner during the ASLA Annual Meeting. Smith is the 12th recipient of the award, which recognizes significant and sustained excellence in landscape architecture education.

Smith taught in the UF Department of Landscape Architecture from 1966 until his retirement in 1995 as professor emeritus. Known as a tough but insightful teacher, Smith served as a catalyst for thousands of students to explore ideas and opportunities in the field.

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Dean Silver recognized for work in Indonesia

Dean Christopher Silver with the Bandung Institute of Technology staff in Indonesia.

DCP Dean Christopher Silver, has been awarded a Ganesa Award by the Bandung Institute of Technology, or ITB, in Indonesia. To commemorate the 92nd anniversary of Indonesian Engineering Higher Education, ITB chose 18 recipients – Silver being the only non-Indonesian – to receive this honor.

Silver's award recognizes his contributions and involvement with the ITB and Indonesia in higher education, specifically in the fields of urban and regional planning and development.

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LAE students, alumni team up to help Gainesville Fisher House

Landscape architecture students, faculty and representatives from the VA and Gainesville Fisher House gather after the students received plaques for assisting the design process of the Fisher House Gardens during the spring semester.

Wonderful things can happen when DCP alumni team up with students.

This spring, 16 landscape architecture students got an opportunity to compete for the ultimate design of the Fisher House Gardens, a therapy garden for the Gainesville Fisher House Foundation.

Jackie Owens, MLA 1995, landscape architect for the planned Fisher House therapy garden, got the ball rolling on the project after contacting the department with the idea to work with students.

The project, the design for which will be located at the future North Florida/South Georgia Fisher House on Malcom Randall VA Medical Center property, was a combined effort between the Planting Design Studio, taught by adjunct instructor Amy Morie, MLA 2007, and Kay Williams, associate professor of landscape architecture, and the spring Landscape Construction class, taught by Bob Grist, associate professor of landscape architecture.

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ARC student-faculty bench project installed in building

A new student-faculty bench design is now installed and ready for use with its permanent home on the fourth floor of the Architecture Building.

The project titled 1186 Bench was designed and fabricated by Tim Beecken, ARC 2012, and Lee-Su Huang, assistant professor of architecture, during a Fabrication Research Group made up of students completing individual studies in the spring.

The 1186 Bench was developed in the college's Art and Architecture Fabrication Laboratory, or A² Fab Lab, where students and faculty have more opportunities to explore new ways of creating, using laser cutters, 3D printing and 3D scanning.

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Gainesville Fisher House: The Challenge Coin

One of the landscape architecture students involved in the design project for the Gainesville Fisher House therapy garden had a unique idea. Junior Adam McCollister suggested a space or an area where soldiers and families of the Fisher House could have the option of leaving behind one or more of their acquired challenge coins. > Read more

Doing the Chomp at APA FL Conference

DCP hosted an alumni reception on Sept. 13 in Naples at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association. Those attending included URP chair Kristin Larsen, URP professor Ruth Steiner and URP advisory board members Tracy Crowe and Jerry Bell.

Community planning at summer camp

This summer, DCP faculty partnered with the City of Cedar Key’s Youth Summer Program, helping to educate Levy County’s summer campers through activities exploring coastal change and community planning. During the six-week program, children were given the opportunity to design and build a city out of boxes, make and read maps, examine archeological artifacts and a public art project. > Read more

Dad runs from "Art to Architecture"

Margaret Mertz, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts (from left), Steve Wheeler, Leslie Wheeler (ARC 2012) and Ann Baker, DCP’s director of development, meet up after Steve Wheeler’s 110-mile run for education. Last month, Steve Wheeler, father of spring 2012 architecture graduate Leslie Wheeler, ran 110 miles non-stop to support education and show how Leslie’s art education, from elementary school to classes at UF, helped develop her into a summa cum laude architecture program graduate. > Read more

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