Congratulations to our newest alumni
DCP alumni across The Gator Nation have a new crop of graduates to welcome.
Nearly 230 graduates walked across the stage at the DCP Spring 2014 Commencement on May 3 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
"Your ideas will give structure and meaning to how we connect with our histories, our environment and each other," said Gerdo Aquino, BLA 1994, chief executive officer of SWA Group, during the commencement keynote address.
> Read about the faculty and student awards
> View the commencement photo album
> View the webcast and program
Distinguished alumni honored by DCP
During the Spring 2014 semester, the college's schools and departments each held award ceremonies to honor and recognize faculty, students, alumni and friends. Congratulations to the recipients of this year's distinguished alumni awards:
Michael Berk, BDes 1979 and MArch 1982, Architecture Distinguished Alumnus
Sean DeMartino, BCN 1993, Construction Management Distinguished Alumnus
Rick Parisi, BLA 1986, Landscape Architecture Distinguished Alumnus
Rich Doty, MAURP 1997, and Suzanne Roulston-Doty, MAURP 1994, Urban and Regional Planning Distinguished Alumnus
DCP also would like to congratulate and recognize the recipients of these other significant awards:
Gene Leedy, BDes 1950, SoA Lifetime Achievement Award
Giovanni Traverso, Architecture Distinguished Service Award
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architecture Design Excellence Award
William Olmstead Antozzi III, BDes 2004, Young Architects Design Award
E.J. Bolduc, BLA 1986, Landscape Architecture Service Award
Gene Leedy recognized with Lifetime Achievement Award
Founding father of the Sarasota School of Architecture, Gene Leedy, BArch 1950, was selected by the School of Architecture as the recipient of the school's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Leedy pioneered innovative work with pre-stressed concrete and the development of long-span “double-tee” beams, the sliding glass door in both wood and aluminum, and introduced the traditional walled-in courtyard to modern houses. He received the outstanding alumni award from UF’s College of Architecture in 1993. With a UF degree in architecture, Leedy was a member of the SAE fraternity and designed the house that was built in 1963. In 2012, his design placed 13th in the competition to identify the top 100 buildings in Florida that represent the best in architectural achievement.
UF team wins national competition again
Pictured above: This year's winning team which consisted of 16 landscape architecture students, three engineering students and one fine arts student.
Glenn Acomb, landscape architecture senior lecturer and faculty adviser, and Nancy Stoner, acting assistant administrator for the EPA, are also pictured above.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that University of Florida, for the second year in a row, placed first in the national green infrastructure competition, the EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge, in the Master Plan category.
The challenge was created to engage college and university students in proposed designs on university campuses to reinvent our water infrastructure and develop innovative green infrastructure systems to reduce stormwater pollution and build resilience to climate change.
> View the team's video and site plan
> Read the story on UF News website
Historic Preservation Program in the news |
The HP Program's work using the 3D laser scanner to scan the Shwe Kyaung Monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar was featured in the May issue of World Monument Fund and in The Irrawaddy. Caeli Tolar's, HP master's student, article, "Treatment of Modernist Urban Park Plazas" was published in ASLA's blog, The Field. Read the article. |
Castro named National Olmsted Scholar Finalist |
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BLA senior student Viviana Castro was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) 2014 National Olmsted Scholar, the premier national award program for landscape architecture students. This program is highly competitive and there is one winner and three finalists for graduate and undergraduate students. The winners are selected from a pool of the top students of U.S. and Canadian Landscape Architecture programs. |
CityLab–Sarasota Lighting Design Awards |
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Pictured above: Professor Stan Kaye, Diane Ariza, Kyle Sheppard, Jamison Deighan and Professor Martin Gold, director of SOA. The Architectural Lighting Design course, taught by Kaye and Gold, offered during the Spring 2014 semester, held a lighting design challenge. The winners of the challenge were announced May 14 at the LIGHTWORK exhibit opening. Teams of students proposed a new lighting scheme for the Barkus furniture building (most recently the Sarasota County Print Shop) as part of the building renovation to house CityLab-Sarasota and the Center for Architecture Sarasota. The course consisted of architecture students from DCP and CityLab-Orlando programs, as well as students from the UF Department of Theater and Dance. Winning teams included students from all of the programs. |
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