The UF Student Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects (UF SCASLA) transformed three metered parking spaces into a temporary park to celebrate (PARK)ing Day, a global event aiming to recognize the need for more urban open spaces. Photo courtesy of UF SCASLA.

UF Student Chapter ASLA brings (PARK)ing Day to Downtown

>Read more about (PARK)ing Day

>Read the story published in The Alligator

'I was born a landscape architect'

Gloria Mayberry chose the plant palette and consulted on the north end zone of the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Photo courtesy of Mayberry.

It was 1969 and Gloria Mayberry, who was 42 at the time, was eager to begin her collegiate career.

"The woman at the admissions office told me, 'they don't take women in the architecture program,'" Mayberry said. "I told the woman, 'I came up here from Miami to go to school and all my stuff is out in the car in the parking lot. I need to see the Architecture Building. I have a reservation with Herrick Smith.'"

>Read more of Mayberry's story

SoA "Celebrating Women in Architecture" lecture series

This fall, the School of Architecture hosted its first-ever "Celebrating Women in Architecture" lecture series that aims to increase the visibility of women leadership in design and to raise awareness about gender issues in the architectural practice, while discussing incredible work created by female architects. An opening discussion and reception was held in the School of Architecture Gallery, kicking-off the lecture series with topics such as the unspoken culture within architectural practices and education.

>Read more from the kick-off event

>SoA lecture series schedule

Alumni News

Kyle Abney, BDes 1999, MBC 2001, Vice President of Abney + Abney Green Solutions, was recently named a National Green Building Standard (NGBS) Green Partner of Excellence by the Home Innovation Research Labs.

DWY Landscape Architects, with Principal David W. Young, BLA 1991, received two awards in the category of Residential Design, which included an Award of Excellence for Thirty Oaks and an Award of Merit for Aquadisia from the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FLASLA).

David Smith, BBC 2008, completed MBA from UF Hough Graduate School of Business in May 2015.

Bryan Conner, BDes 2009, won a 2015 AIA Louisiana (New Orleans chapter) Merit Award in Unbuilt Architecture for a project he worked on at Trahan Architects in Tbilisi, Georgia (eastern European country). The project is a 600,000 sf mixed-use convention center on an existing 35-acre Soviet-Era site in the heart of the city.

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