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Dennis G. Abbey, Associate Professor
Education: BSLA (Michigan State University), MLA (Harvard).
Interests: Site design, graphics, microcomputer applications.
Buck has been conducting research activities for the last twelve years in the area of municipal planning law. Specifically, he has undertaken studies and has written on the subjects of community
landscape ordinances, tree ordinances, tree preservation ordinances and land alteration ordinances. He is the author of U.S. Landscape Ordinances, John Wiley & Sons and numerous papers on the subject.
He has written landscape ordinances for several communities and has spoken on this subject across the United States. He maintains a research web site which that provides information on this topic to cities
across Louisiana as well as communities throughout the United States. The web site is funded by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry. He is an experienced and registered Landscape Architect
and provides consulting services through out the region. In the last several years, he has lectured in Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio and South Carolina.
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(225) 578-1475 |
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Brad Cantrell, Assistant Professor
Education: BS (University of Kentucky), MLA (Harvard)
Interests: Digital Representation, Interactive Landscapes
MLA from Harvard Graduate School of Design, BSLA from the University of Kentucky. Research and teaching focus on the using digital film and effects techniques to represent landscape form and phenomenology. Representation techniques range from improving the workflow of digital media in the design process as well as providing a baseline methodology for deconstructing landscape through techniques of compositing and film editing. The creation of interactive, malleable landscape through the development of devices which express site characteristics through ambient cues is another line of research. The exploration of landscape interactivity and malleable space is a continuation of work started while at Harvard Design School and aims to strengthen a designer’s analysis and understanding of landscape as well as provide additional layers of understanding to the everyday use of space.
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(225) 578-1474 |
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V. Frank Chaffin, Associate Professor Education: MFA and MLA (University of Georgia)
I teach courses in landscape site design, in landscape history and in planting design. My interests follow my teaching. I am interested in the creative design process: how designers conceive future form; the experience of landscapes: how people respond to designed landscapes of the past and the meanings that attach to these places; and the use of plants in design: how plants are an expression the wild and how they connect us literally and metaphorically to place. |
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(225) 578-1444 |
fchaff@lsu.edu |
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Max Z. Conrad, Professor Education: BSLA (LSU), MLA (Harvard)
Interests: Urban design, regional planning, planting design, travel.
Major interests are in the area of Urban Design and Regional Planning. He also is responsible for the East and West Coast Trips of the United States and Eastern Canada as well as other shorter visits to nearby states including Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida. He arranges student internships in Japan, Thailand and China as well as extensive field trips to Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, India and China.
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(225) 578-1414 |
mconrad@lsu.edu |
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Van L. Cox, FASLA, Professor Education: BLA (LSU), MFA (LSU)
Interests: Site design, graphics, professional practice and legal aspects
Native to Louisiana, he has taught graduate and undergraduate design, graphics and professional practice courses in the School since 1977. He is also the Louisiana landscape architects’ representative on the Horticulture Commission (licensure agency), active in the American Society of Landscape Architects, and serves on the University Facilities Design and Development committee. In addition to teaching, Professor Cox practices as a licensed landscape architect, and has additional experience in art and illustrative design.
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(225) 578-1478 |
vcox1@lsu.edu |
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Charles Fryling, Jr., Associate
Professor Education: BS (State University of New York), MLA (Harvard), Prix de Rome
Interests: Environmental planning, ecology
My interest extends through ecology, regional planning, visual resource management, environmental impact assessment, political action, and good practical design. Coming to Louisiana, I found the landscape particularly unique and the protection of the Atchafalaya Basin became my top environmental priority. I have worked with a variety of governmental agencies including the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Land Management and many state agencies and commissions. I have also worked closely with environmental organizations, as the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, American Lung Association, and others in an effort to protect some of the natural landscapes in Louisiana including scenic rivers, coastal wetlands, and special bird habitats. The promotion of ecotourism is yet another way in which I have tried to protect natural environments. Hobbies include photography, canoeing, travel, bird watching, and flower arranging. Many of these activities come back directly into the classroom where I enjoy teaching landscape architecture.
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(225) 578-1473 |
cfryling@aol.com |
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Cathy Soergel Marshall, Assistant
Professor Education: MLA (Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
Interests: Examinations of landscapes at various scales: landscapes as infrastructure; and site specific interventions through bodily experience
Research and teaching focus on the issues of representing a landscape's cultural context; the manipulation of terrains through land uses and the implications of a space's human geography. Research involves a historical mapping study of 16th, 17th and 18th century Covent Garden and Outdoor Performance Arts "The Market" at Harvard Design School 2001-2003. Interests range from examinations of landscapes at various scales: landscapes as infrastructure; and site specific interventions through bodily experience. A background in fine arts and theatrical production and design has fostered a strong desire to produce thoroughly researched visuals that explore the landscapes ephemeral qualities graphically.
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(225) 578-0112 |
cmarshall@lsu.edu |
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Wes Michaels,
Assistant Professor Education: BLA (University of Georgia), MLA (Harvard)
Interests: Dynamic landscape modeling, landscape urbanism, digital media
Wes Michaels received his graduate degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Georgia. He is a licensed landscape architect and has worked in firms around the country including Martha Schwartz, Inc. and Hargreaves Associates. Wes was a visiting professor at Auburn University before coming to LSU. His research interests include the use of digital media in the design process focusing particularly on developing a workflow method using AutoCAD, Illustrator and Photoshop. He is also interested in large scale riverfront projects and his most recent studio at LSU addressed the Baton Rouge riverfront.
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(225) 578-1474 |
michaels@lsu.edu |
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Elizabeth Mossop, Director and
Professor Education: MUP Macquarie University Sydney BLA (Hons) University of NSW, AAILA
Before taking up the Director’s position in 2004, she was Associate Professor and Director of Master in Landscape Architecture Programs in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where she was a faculty member from 1999. Prior to this she was Director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Her teaching and research focus on issues in contemporary landscape design and urbanism. Her writings include articles on urban landscape design issues as well as an edited book of essays, 'City Spaces: Art and Design' and 'Contemporary Australian Landscape Design' forthcoming in 2005. Her practice, Spackman and Mossop Landscape Architects, specializes in the design of the public landscape, parks, urban spaces and infrastructure. More detail is available at www.spackmanmossop.com.au.
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(225) 578-1493 |
emossop@lsu.edu |
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Robert S. Reich, FASLA, Alumni
Professor and Director Emeritus Education: BS (Cornell University), PhD (Cornell University)
Interests: Detail design, planting design
Dr. Reich established one of the very few Landscape Architecture programs in the United States in l941. For over 50 years he actively ran the program and developed it to its present state. Although officially retired, Dr. Reich continues to strongly support the program and organizes an enrichment seminar that introduces the students to professionals with varied practices. This class includes a number of short field trips in and out of state. Dr. Reich also has a strong interest in Planting Design and imparts his expertise and love of plants to the students.
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(225) 578-1479 |
reichassociates@earthlink.net |
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Kevin Risk, Associate Professor Education: MLA (University of Georgia)
Interests: Cultural Landscapes, history and site design
He teaches coursework in contemporary and western landscape history, cultural landscape studies, and conceptual design. For several years, he has been conducting research on the transmission of garden forms and ideology from France to Louisiana, using the Valcour Aime Plantation Garden, “Le Petit Versailles,” located in St. James Parish, as a case study. In August 2002, he completed a Cultural Landscape Report for the Aime Garden with a grant from the State of Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation. This report included archival research on the land-use history of the site and the development of the garden. In 2003, he received a Council on Research Junior Faculty Summer Stipend to visit and document precedent garden types in France.
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(225) 578-1471 |
jrisk1@lsu.edu |
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Bruce G. Sharky, FASLA, Professor Education: BLA and MLA (University of California at Berkeley)
Interests: Professional practice, site grading and design, Latin American design studies
Professor Sharky has had traveled, lectured, and conducted field research in Latin America since 1965. His early travels in Central and South America included professional employment in Costa Rica. There, he worked with a consulting firm in the design of community water and sewer plans throughout the country. During the past eight years, he has been engaged in scholarly work involving community designs of cultural and environmental resources along the Texas-Mexican border as well as Monterrey, Mexico. He has also conducted fieldwork at other locations in Mexico including the Mexico City, the Yucatan, and Northern States of Mexico.
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(225) 578-1441 |
bshark2@lsu.edu |
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Daniel Farrah Education: MLA (Louisiana State University)
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dfarrah1@lsu.edu |
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Karla Christensen Education: MLA (Louisiana State University)
Interests: School and playground design and construction, community development/service learning projects
Karla Christensen comes to the School of Landscape Architecture with over nine years of experience in managing international humanitarian aid projects. Her work in the war-torn and conflict areas of Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia has prepared her for the She uses her landscape architecture educational background to facilitate community development projects that strive to engage community participation which ultimately impacts the design process.
Karla comes to the School of Landscape Architecture with over nine years of international humanitarian aid experience. She has dedicated her professional career to the design and construction of schools and playgrounds with full community participation. She has worked in the war-torn and conflict areas of Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo. She is currently working with her LSU students on recovery efforts in New Orleans in partnership with school communities striving to design and build their schoolyards following Katrina.
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(225) 578-9222 |
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