CAMPUS PLANNING: Stanford

Here is your campus at a glance for the month of August:  Stanford University. Many thanks to Cathy Blake, Associate Director for Campus Planning and Design at Stanford, for the images. Cathy will likely be appointed Co Chair of this PPN next year (she will be recommeded as such by the PPN Council [...]

CAMPUS PLANNING: University of Wisconsin – Madison

Here is another campus overview that I recently received from the ASLA Campus Planning and Design Professional Practice Network.  This is a virtual trip to the upper Midwest and a great campus: University of Wisconsin – Madison.  Mark Hough and Gary Brown created this profile for the PPN.  Being a southerner, I was [...]

What makes a City Park Excellent?

Creating parks is one of the many joys we get to experience as landscape architects – we are tasked with creating a space for everyone to enjoy.  In researching for some park design efforts here in North Carolina, I heard about the folks at the Center for City Park Excellence.  Led by Peter [...]

CAMPUS PLANNING: UC Berkeley

Here is another monthly campus overview from the ASLA Campus Planning and Design Professional Practice Network that I received.  We are going to the left coast this time – To UC Berkeley!  Please note Mark’s comments regarding the University’s Landscape Heritage Plan.

Once again, Mark Hough organized, this time working with Robert [...]

CAMPUS PLANNING: Duke

As part of the ASLA’s Campus Planning and Design Professional Practice Network, I have received a series of emails concerning campus design from the chair, Mark Hough, who is the Campus Landscape Architect at Duke University.  He has been instrumental in having the CPD PPN members share information and thus trying to get [...]