Department of Landscape Architecture

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Eight University of Minnesota members of the ASLA-MN Student Chapter visited Toronto, Canada August 24 through August 29th.

Although Toronto is double in size compared to the Twin Cities, there are important similarities, including a cold climate, post industrial waterfront urban city. It boasts of new world-renown landscape architecture projects by leading international firms.

The students visited these projects, varying in scale, form, and type, rural to urban. They researched these sites prior and made a booklet including the history of Toronto, and background information on each site to be visited.

Firm and site tours by professionals added to the excitement of the trip. Janet Rosenberg, from Janet Rosenberg & Associates, gave the students a firm tour and explained her HTO Park, one of the waterfront projects the students had visited. Roberto Chiotti, principal of Larkin Architects, generously offered a tour of his off-the-grid straw bale house, and his expertise as he walked the waterfront with the students. Dennis Winters, principal of Tales of the Earth, gave a tour of Evergreen Brick Works Park and explained his recent project associated with the Don River Valley.

Check out the blog the students kept each day: http://www.aslamnsc.tumblr.com.

Thanks to the many donors who made this trip possible: ASLA-MN, Metropolitan Design Center, donors to the GoFundMe website, and all who participated in the two fundraisers at Damon Farber & Associates and the lovely home of Chris Behringer.

On Sunday, March 10 students of the University of Minnesota MLA program made their Netherlands rendezvous to commence their field studies for The Cultural Ecology of Water in the Netherlands traveling studio. With backpacks and bikes, sketchbooks and snapshots, for the next four weeks students are immersed (get it?) in a direct experience of how the Dutch landscape is a symbiosis of culture and water. Follow their blog to experience daily narrative and photographic accounts of their progress.

Nearly three years after traveling to Itasca State Park and commencing their MLA program of study, 25 MLA students are currently focused on their capstone studio projects. The spring semester LA8555 Capstone Studio is the culmination of the MLA educational process and is the first step in transition from the academy to a professional role in Landscape Architecture. The studio allows students an opportunity to pursue an independent course of inquiry into a variety of contemporary issues and project sites, of their choosing, within the discipline of Landscape Architecture.

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