RISD Landscape Architecture

Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition, November 9th & 10th at RISD. Full schedule: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-futures-design-and-the-just-transition-tickets-51117187885 Join us!

Join us this Saturday (10/6) for our Open Studios. We'll be displaying work from all of the current studios on the 2nd Floor of BEB from 12-3 pm!
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Congratulations in your final presentation to all 1st year students , Design Principles Studio!

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RISD Landscape Architecture Faculty are part of a 4-year National Science Foundation Grant, looking at the Future Damns in New England

This new Tri-State collaboration will strengthen connections between scientists and decision-makers while incorporating the design expertise of faculty at Rhode Island School of Design.

The project will address a range of future approaches to dams, including maintaining existing hydro power dams, expanding hydro power capacity, and removing aging dams to restore fisheries or reduce safety risks. By examining economic, environmental, and social.

Graduate Program Director, Suzanne Mathew publishes essay in new book Representing Landscapes

Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation - but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages. In this new book on representing landscapes, Nadia Amoroso brings together contributions from some of the leading landscape departments in the world to explore the variety in digital illustration methods.

In each chapter, leading lecturers, professors and practitioners in the field of landscape architecture explain a specific digital approach with the use of images from their department to show how each technique can be used in inspirational examples.

We are proud to share Adam E Anderson's Public Art Installation located in Providence, a RISD Alumni and current Faculty member. Congratulations Adam!

http://www.adameanderson.com/10000-suns/

10,000 SUNS

We are proud to share some of our RISD Alumns achievements!

Ian Quate, MLA 2011, and his team were awarded first prize in the Gowanus by Design competition.

http://www.bkbioreactor.com/team

BK BioReactor

[Advance Studio] Queens Boulevard studio presenting 3/4 fall review from Framework to Design

[Plants Materials] Lonsdale Marsh Restoration Field-trip, to provide a new planting proposal for altered site, supporting the original wildlife habitat, additional aesthetics and educational goals

[GS Grant] Kelsey Wakefield and Lucila Silva-Santisteban received Graduate Studies grant this past summer 2016 to study ancient indigenous agriculture systems of central and South America in the search of how these ancient technologies could be applied to contemporary issues such as sea level rising, food security and self-sufficient methods for communities. Thinking about how landscape architecture can provide an updated way of solving current human needs with trying to preserve the environment in a symbiosis.
The sites they visited included:
- Xochimilco, México: Chinampa method by the Aztecs
- Macchu Picchu, Peru: Microclimate Terrace system of the Incas
- Moray, Peru: Incan agriculture laboratory where they would test crops. Each terrace has a 1-2 degrees difference.
- Maras, Peru: Pre-Incan salt mine system. Expanded and designed by the Incas.

The research is still in process and will be officially presented this coming January.

[Theory II] Course aims to prepare students for Thesis. now it's time for them to approach their site through the lens of three dimensional aspect