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Landscape Architecture News
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Roger Trancik Explores Layers of Panama's Landscape
3/1/2007
Roger Trancik, Kurt Dillon and Sam Sweezey present their Clarence Stein Institute research entitled:TROPICAL GARDEN CITIES: The Influence of Clarence Stein on Urbanization at the Panama Canal. Events include an Exhibit of Photographs with Narratives in the Hartell Gallery, March 5-10, a keynote lecture by Dr. Robert Fishman, author of Bourgeois Utopias on March 6 at 4:30 pm, with a master class by Dr. Fishman for students and faculty on March 7 at 11:15 am. Refreshments served. For more on Professor’s Trancik’s work in Panama, visit: http://www.crp.cornell.edu/outreach/panama.mgi
New Classrooms Open in Landscape Architecture
1/22/2007
New classrooms open offering facilities for digital teaching in Landscape Architecture
After years of discussion, planning, and renovation, Peter Trowbridge and Kris Flahive are delighted to open a new computer classroom and a review/seminar space in Kennedy Hall. The opening of these two new classrooms has both relieved pressure on the studio and has allowed faculty and students to work in settings fully wired for contemporary teaching in digital media.
Faculty and Students Investigate New & Old Forms of Sustainability in India
12/20/2007
Kathryn Gleason and five graduate students, including LA students Stacy Clark and Jacob Brown, as well as LA alum, Dan Costura, excavated the Mughal/Rajput gardens of Nagaur Fort in Rajasthan, India over the winter recess. See: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb07/old.gardens.India.sl.html
Gleason’s work usually focuses on the archaeology of ancient Roman gardens. Archaeology Magazine recently interviewed her:
http://www.archaeology.org/0605/index.html
Former Lawrence Halprin Fellow and Landscape Architecture Graduate Students Join the Department of CRP in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans
8/22/2006
Jeremy Foster, now teaching in CRP, led a studio to New Orleans to assist the community planning group ACORN in recovery efforts. Landscape architecture graduate students were among the 65 Cornell participants.
See: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan07/CRP.NewOrleans.dea.html
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ASLA Student Honor Award
8/9/2006
Students Ted Haffner, Alison Endl, and Jessica Schultz, have won an ASLA Student Honor Award
in Residential Design for their project, Functional Landscape for Solar House.
This was the most competitive year in ASLA Student Awards history with more than 250
submissions representing all but four U.S. accredited programs, all the LA schools in Canada,
and programs as far away as Israel and Iran.
ASLA will announce the awards publicly in September when all the schools are back in session
and the award will be presented on Monday, October 9th, at the awards ceremony during the
ASLA/IFLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
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Professor Herb Gottfried Retires
on July 1, 2006
4/10/2006
On Thursday, July 1, 2006, Landscape's Professor Herb Gottfried will begin his retirement. He leaves the following reflections on the highlights of his career and plans for his future. He also leaves an erudite and stately, as well as a down-to-earth and approachable, legacy in the department, and will be missed by faculty, staff and students alike.
Herb writes:
| "I never really planned to be a professor. I got interested in the idea while an undergraduate at Colby College. Over the years, my intellectual interests have been quite constant: language, images, and how one thing relates to another. At Cornell I turned to the intersection of cultural and environmental history, or how human intention relates to environmental change. My first academic appointment was in 1966 in the Department of English, University of Montana. I was a member of the creative writing faculty. From 1974 to the present, I've had the following appointments: Professor of Art, Art History, Humanities, Design Studies, Architecture and Landscape Architecture. As for research, I published, edited, delivered papers at conferences and
lectures at universities and museums mostly on historical subjects like American vernacular architecture. My wife, Jan Jennings, who is Professor of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell, and I have co-authored books, and for twelve years we had a preservation consulting firm, with projects in Oklahoma, Wyoming and Iowa. Honors and awards in my career have centered on teaching and leadership. My most recent project (2005) was published in Blind Spot #31, the art photography magazine. Using a GPS, photographer Frank Gohlke and I constructed a cultural landscape study of a line of latitude, 42.30N, across Massachusetts. Frank took pictures and I wrote poetry. Frank and I will talk about the project May 2, 2006, in Ithaca. Another current work, a book-length manuscript on American printed souvenirs, is under review at a university press. Growing up in the 1940s and 50s, we boys were told to use our brains and bodies, so sports played as much a part of my life as reading. And that is still true. I am in my seventh year as an assistant rowing coach at Cornell. In the fall of 2004, I traveled to La Grande, Oregon, to take part in an Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony as the assistant coach of the 1970 baseball team. That team turned out to be the best team in the school's history. I plan to remain in Ithaca for a while. Jan will continue to teach. I just completed two Coast Guard courses that will allow me to serve as a ship's master of vessels of less than 25 tons on Inland Waters. I hope this will keep me afloat on Cayuga's waters. In closing, the best part of my Cornell experience was getting to know so many good and interesting students. My very best wishes to all of you." | | -- HG |
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Lynn Wolff Elected ASLA Fellow
3/28/2006
Lynn Wolff, of Copley Wolff Design Group in Boston, MA, has been named a 2006 Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Lynn was a 1978 graduate of Cornell's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree program, and is now President and Principal of Copley Wolff Design Group.
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Professor Robert Mower Memorial
3/7/2006
Generations of landscape architecture alumni will be saddened to learn that Dr Robert Mower, who retired just a few years ago, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 27, 2005. Professor Mower was in the initial stages of recovery from surgery to repair a broken hip suffered in a fall. George Good writes, "Bob was widely recognized by students, as the consummate teacher, one who was truly interested in their well-being. He will long be remembered by his students and his colleagues for his dedication and commitment to teaching excellence." We all agree.
A memorial will take place on Friday, June 30, 2006, at 1:30pm in the A.D. White House Garden by the bench that was placed there in his honor in June of 2003. Refreshments will be served in the AD White House.
Directions: Enter through the A. D. White House on East Avenue, or approach via Garden Avenue Extension, through the parking lot, and taking the foot path to the left of the Big Red Barn. In case of rain, the gathering will be held in the A. D. White House.
Please feel free to send your thoughts, photos, and memories to Angelica Hammer, Chair's Assistant, Department of Horticulture, 134A Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, 607.255.4568 (ph), 607.255.0599 (fx)
Additional information:
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Memorial Announcement and Obituary
• Horticulture Alumni Newsletters 2/02 (page 9), 11/02, 7/03
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Minka Sendich MLA '02
Graphics Editor of Reference Book,
Planning and Urban Design Standards
with assistance and contributions
by Val Aymer MLA '02
2/10/2006
Emina "Minka" Sendich, Master of Landscape Architecture, class of 2002, was the graphics editor for the newly released American Planning Association reference book, Planning and Urban Design Standards, published by Wiley. Valerie Aymer, also Master of Landscape Architecture, class of 2002, helped and has some of her work in it as well. The final cut contains 700+ illustrations. Over 1,000 images passed through the graphics editor's pervue prior to the the final selection. Minka commented, "[It] was a long hard road that nearly did me in. Cornell was a breeze compared to the hours we worked."
Additional information:
• American Planning Association • Wiley • Amazon
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Ned Shalanski Places Second
in Logo Contest
11/28/2005
LA student, Ned Shalanski, a junior in the Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture program, placed second in the university-wide contest to redesign the logo for The Cornell Store. The contest was announced at the beginning of October, and submissions needed to be submitted by October 28th. The first, second, and third place winners were notified in November, and received their generous gift certificates to The Cornell Store at that time.
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Herb Gottfried Published
in Blind Spot Magazine
11/7/2005
Professor Herbert Gottfried, in collaboration with Frank Gohike, produced a series of photographs, taken by Frank, and corresponding to each picture, a series of reflections, written by Herb, which have been published in issue thirty-one of Blind Spot Magazine. The Issue 31 link below contains additional links to one of Frank's images and a sample of one of Herb's matching reflections.
Additional information:
• BlindSpot • Issue31
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Solar Decathlon Team
Wins Second Place
10/16/2005
   
On Tuesday, October 4th, 2005, a group of students, faculty and staff from the Department of Landscape Architecture assisted Ted Haffner, one of the three main leads of the Landscape Architecture contingent of the Cornell Solar Decathlon team, to load up 3 large trucks with 96 flats of vegetables and herbs for transport to Washington D.C. The flats contained a total of 1500 individual potted plants, all started from seed. The plants, a design in themselves the way they were arranged, were carefully tended and nurtured through this year's unusually hot summer, and were set up in tandum with a completely solar powered house built by students of Architecture, Art and Planning for entry into the Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C. The trucks left at 6:30 pm on 10/4/05. The house and plants needed to be completely assembled by 6:00 am, 10/5/05, on the National Mall, where the 18 houses from the 18 competing colleges and universities formed a solar village. The Cornell Solar Decathlon team placed 2nd in the competition. Following the award ceremony, the house was disassembled, transported back to the Cornell campus, and is presently on display on the Ag Quad next to Kennedy Hall.
Additional information:
• 2005 Solar Decathlon • All 18 Teams • Map of the Solar Village
• Gallery of Homes • Top 3 Placements • Cornell University Team
• Landscape SD Book (pdf-30MB) • Excerpts from Landscape SD Book
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Daniel Krall
Elected ASLA Fellow
10/7/2005
At the ASLA 2005 Annual Meeting and Expo, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from October 7th through 10th, Professor Daniel Krall was honored as a newly elected fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). He was nominated by the New York Upstate Chapter, and elected in the category of knowledge. As is the custom, a newly elected Fellow is escorted to the stage by a current Fellow. Marvin Adleman, also a professor in Cornell's LA department, and a member of the ASLA Fellowship since 1992, accompanied Dan down the isle. Following the ceremony and the black tie dinner, several LA students stopped in as an added surprise, to join with alum, who had occupied the Dan Fan table throughout the evening, in offering their congratulations. Dan, as always, remains modest and good humored about this much deserved acknowledgement of his contributions to the field.
 Dan with department chair, Kathryn Gleason
To read Dan's ASLA profile, visit the FASLA Class of 2005 page.
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Sherene Baugher and George Frantz
ASLA Award
9/29/2005
The New York Upstate Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects presented its annual Community Achievement Award this month to Professor Sherene Baugher of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, and local city planner, George Frantz, a 1980 alum of the Cornell LA department, for their joint Inlet Valley archaeological study that took place between 1993 and 1996.
Read the full Ithaca Journal article.
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Linda Corkery '78 Promoted
at Unversity of South Wales
9/24/2005
Linda Corkery, graduate student, class of 1978, has been promoted to Associate Professor, and subsequently to Associate Dean/International, of the Faculty for the Built Environment at the University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In her new role, Linda will be travelling regularly to China, Singapore, Thailand, India, to recruit students, and in a broader context, to initiate opportunities for FBE's existing students and staff to engage in international studios, exchanges, etc. Linda is also Head of School of the FBE.
To read more about Linda's work, visit her FBE staff page.
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LA Students Participate in
Habitat for Humanity
9/17/2005
A group of sixteen Cornell Landscape Architecture sudents, including coordinator, Brad Biren, joined with the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, Inc. and the Garden Clubs of Orange and Dutchess Counties in designing and implementing landscaping for The Liberty Street Project in Newburgh, New York. Six brand new, single-family row houses had been built on an historic tract of land located in one of the poorest districts of Newburgh and the county. With design plans in hand, and deliveries of plants generously donated by local nurseries expected, the volunteer Landscape Architecture students met at 7:15 that Saturday morning and drove the three hours from Ithaca to the site. The day turned out not to be pouring rain as originally predicted, and thanks to some quick-thinking reassessments by others on the team, an unexpected surprise did not interfere with the schedule, and an unexpected query was handled in a charming way. Throughout the process, genuine relationships were formed between the students and the new homeowners.
Donations are still needed for ongoing maintenance. Please visit the sites below for information on how and where to send contributions or to volunteer.
Additional information:
• Habitat for Humanity • Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh
• The Liberty Street Project • Garden Clubs of Orange & Dutchess
• Brad's Article (pdf) • Photo Gallery (in progress)
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Tulane Students Welcome in LA
9/10/2005
The Department of Landscape Architecture is glad to have the privilege of extending a helping hand to six Tulane students. All six students are architecture majors, and are participating on landscape studios for the Fall 2005 semester.
To read more about Cornell's response in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, visit the Katrina Disaster Response site.
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Herb Gottfried
Outstanding Graduate
9/6/2005
Dr. Herbert Gottfried has been named the Outstanding Graduate of the School of Interdisciplinary (formerly Comparative) Arts for 2005, and he will receive his award on September 30, 2005.
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Ruth Shellhorn
Receives Long-Overdue Degrees
5/30/2005
On May 30, 2005, Cornell officially conferred the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and the Bachelor of Architecture degrees on Ruth Shellhorn, a prominent landscape architect during her 57 year career, and a distinguished student at Cornell from 1930 to 1933. At the time, Ruth had more than enough credits towards her degree, but the then dean would not allow her to take the final four-credit course in her third year, feeling the workload would be too intense for a woman to handle. Unfortunately, the following year, she could not afford to return to Cornell. The degrees were presented to Ms. Shellhorn on June 4, 2005 by the Chair of Landscape Architecture, Kathryn Gleason, during a special ceremony at Ruth's home in California. Kelly Camras, the biographer who brought Ruth's story to the attention of the Cornell faculty, was also among those in attendance.
Additional information:
• Cornell News Service • Short Biography by Kelly Camras
• Landscape Legends Oral History Initiative
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Michael Van Valkenburgh '73
3/8/2005 
On March 7, 2005, well-known landscape architect, Michael Van Valkenburg, a 1973 graduate of Cornell's BSLA program, stopped in for a conversation with our students prior to delivering a larger presentation campus-wide. Some of Michael's more notable landmark spaces include Harvard Yard at Harvard University, the grounds for the Washington Monument, Pennsylvania Avenue at the White house, and Riverfront Park in Columbus, Ohio. The circularly arranged seats in the classroom were filled to overflowing, and the talk was as entertaining as it was informative. Michael's firm will be designing the landscaping for the Bailey Hall Renovation Project here at Cornell, so we look forward to future visits when he is in town.
For more information visit:
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.
http://www.mvvainc.com
Harvard Design School
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/vanvalkenburgh
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Sevgi Yilmaz, Visiting Fellow
1/16/2005 
From August 2004 to January 2005, the department had the privilege of working with visiting fellow, Professor Sevgi Yilmaz. Sevgi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Atatürk University in Erzurum, Turkey. During Sevgi's stay, department chair, Professor Kathryn Gleason, and she collaborated in the area of landscape recreational design, and also developed a questionnaire related to environmental sensibility. Sevgi's input and ideas have been of much value, and working with her has been a pleasure. We wish her well in her future endeavors and look forward to continued correspondance and association with her.
For more details, view Sevgi's 2004-2005 Curriculum Vitae (pdf, 3.7MB)
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Nadine Soubotin '03 Awarded
Merit Award for Public Landscape Design
11/16/2004 
Nadine Soubotin, class of 2003, currently a landscape architect with Environmental Design Research, PC, out of Rochester, NY, was recently awarded a Merit Award for Public Landscape Design from the New York Upstate Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Nadine's winning design was an "urban-agriculture" project called, The Vineyard-Rochester Community Garden.
For more details, view the project summary (pdf - 4.4 MB).
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Nina Bassuk Awarded Gold Medal 9/10/2004 
Professor Nina Bassuk, longtime chairwoman of the Shade Tree Advisory Committee in Ithaca, NY, and program leader and professor of Cornell University's Urban Horticulture Institute, was awarded the New York State Nursery / Landscape Association's 2004 Gold Medal of Horticulture during an August 2004 ceremony at the State Fair in Syracuse, New York.
For more information on Nina's award and career, view the full 9/10/04 Ithaca Journal article (pdf - 80k).
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Marvin Adleman awarded
ASLA's Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal 5/18/2004 
On May 18th, aboard Cayuga Lake Tour's MV Manhattan, the final leg in the department's two-day faculty/staff retreat, Chair, Professor Kathryn Gleason, announced that Professor Marvin Adleman had been awarded the ASLA Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal. As the nomination process, initiated by Kathy, was kept strictly undercover, the news took Marv by surprise. His graciousness is such that had we not all been looking at him and clapping, he might have scanned the room to see who the real recipient was. He accepted in his usual quiet and elegant manner, but was nonetheless touched and honored at this esteemed acknowledgement from his colleagues and peers.
 October 29, 2004
The medal was formally presented to Marvin at the October ALSA 2004 Annual Meeting and EXPO in Salt Lake City.
For more information, visit: http://www.asla.org/awards/2004/medals/adleman.htm
http://www.asla.org/Members/awards/jotdcarpenter.htm
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Peter Trowbridge and Nina Bassuk publish
Trees in the Urban Landscape 2/11/2004   (click images for larger view)
Professor Peter Trowbridge and Professor Nina Bassuk's much anticipated reference, Trees in the Urban Landscape, was recently released by Wiley. It is 224 pages of concise description, specifications, illustrations and charts relating to planning, assessment, plant selection, soil texture, nutrients, drainage and much more. Click on the image above for more details about the book's contents and authors.
In addition, for more information, or to leave a review, you can visit: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471392464.html.
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Marv Adleman Featured in December 2003
Issue of Landscape Architecture 1/20/2004 
Professor Marv Adleman's Site Grading Seminar was the focus of Heather Hammatt's "Shared Wisdom" article in the December 2003 issue of Landscape Architecture. This summer seminar begins in early June, almost on the heels of Spring semester, a testiment in itself to Marv's dedication to the topic. The workshop is an intense, 10-day learning experience geared toward helping professionals in the field of landscape architecture pass the grading section of the LARE (Landscape Architecture Registration Examination).
For more information about the class, visit: http://www.sce.cornell.edu/exec/site_grading.php
To view the cover of this issue of Landscape Architecture, visit: http://www.asla.org/lamag/lam03/december/lam1203.html.
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Landscape Architecture Student One of Two Finalists in
World Trade Center Memorial Competition
with Garden of Lights 1/8/2004 
Sean Corriel, 22, a fifth year undergrad working on his honors thesis, was part of the three-person team announced by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation as one of the eight, then one of the two, finalists in the World Trade Center Memorial competition. The other members of the team were Pierre David, a professor at the Ecole d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand in France, and Jessica Kmetovic, a student at the California College of the Arts. They originally met during a study abroad program sponsored by Columbia University, called The Shape of Two Cities. Their entry was entitled Garden of Lights. An excerpt from the guiding statement for the Garden of Lights reads, "There was a last hour, a last minute, a last second that 2,982 stars went dark. The instant there was this last light, there was a first light, 2,982 stars were born....Above there is the garden, below there is a new sky and 2,982 stars."
For more information about Pierre, Sean and Jessica's Garden of Lights, visit http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin0.html. For more information about the other seven finalists, visit http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/finalists.html. For more information about the winner, Reflecting Absence, go to http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin7.html
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2003 Thanksgiving Celebration
and Announcements
11/21/2003
This afternoon, the department put on it's annual Thanksgiving luncheon. Students, staff and faculty brought dishes to pass, Sharon Wimer, Kris Flahive and Lori Walker did a great job arranging the tables and their contents, as well as preparing the traditional Thanksgiving fare, and thanks to Kathy Gleason's fireplace viideo, the ambiance of a classroom turned diniing room was that much warmer. Plates were heaped with main courses, then in some cases, with more main courses, followed inevitably by selections from the desert table.
Once all were gathered together and fairly filled, Kathy had some announcements to make. She first thanked Sharon, Kris and Lori for their hard work in planning, preparing and laying out the fixings for this yearly event. Needless to say, the applause soundly reflected the appreciation felt by all. The next announcement was the breaking news that one of our students, Sean Corriel, is part of a team that has been selected as one of the eight finalists in the World Trade Center Memorial competition (for more information, see separate Department News item). Sean was unable to attend the luncheon, but received a round of applause anyway. Next, Sharon Wimer, administrative manager for the department, received a beautiful large bouquet of flowers and a certificate for 20 years of service at Cornell. Being put on the spot like this rendered a couple of witty asides from Sharon that brought smiles and laughter. Marv Adelman also received a bouquet for the honor of having been selected for a prestigeous national teaching award. In the moment, Marv took a picture of Kathy handing him the bouquet, at which point Kathy quickly took possession of the camera and snapped a shot of Marv, bouquet in hand. Again there was laughter as this marked the winding down of Landscape's Thanksgiving for another year.
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