Green Project Grows

by dtoronyi

Green Project Grows

Fox, an assistant professor of landscape architecture, is helping to transform campus by incorporating real sustainable construction projects into the curriculum. Graduate and undergraduate students in landscape architecture and related fields get credit for taking part in these design/build studios.

 

This semester’s project was the second phase of a three-year effort to create an environmentally friendly corridor, called “the Artists’ Backyard,” between Turlington Hall and Owens Hall. If you didn’t know to look for the sustainable features, you’d probably miss them. There’s a cistern that collects rainwater off the roof and diverts it into a nearby rain garden, drought-resistant plants to reduce the university’s landscape maintenance budget, and permeable bricks in the walkways that help filter water bound for the storm drains.

 

SHIFT: process – Landscape Architecture Student Journal – Call for Submissions!

by dtoronyi

North Carolina State University’s Student ASLA Chapter seeks submissions for it’s 2nd annual professional-reviewed landscape architecture student journal, SHIFT: process. Recognizing that students represent the next generation of leaders and design innovators, SHIFT… Read More →

“The Infrastructure Revolution: Adaptation to Climate Disruption in Coastal Cities” by Kristina Hill, Monday Feb 21st

by dtoronyi

Women in Landscape Architecture (WILA) in cooperation with NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture invite the community to attend “The Infrastructure Revolution: Adaptation to Climate Disruption in Coastal Cities”: a public presentation by Kristina… Read More →

NCSU’s SOUL Community Garden – Work Days & Accepting Plot Applications

by dtoronyi

Ever wondered if NCSU had their own community garden? It’s true, we finally do! Last year students got together and created SOUL Community Garden, NCSU’s first oncampus organic community garden. Last year SOUL… Read More →

Australia Looks at Sustainability as Guide to Country-wide Urban Planning | Spatial Sustain

by davetoms

The Australian government has realized the importance of a nationally-consistent urban policy approach as well as the need to focus development on cities as engines for the country’s economy. While the country has… Read More →

Sustainable Development: 200 years too late

by davetoms

Permaculture and Performance Art: The transformative work of Sara Worden

by dtoronyi

Installation view of “Soil Alchemy” by Sara Worden – Altar Installations with video documentation of Biochar process and Red Wiggler Composting worms; two transformative Permaculture techniques for building nutrient dense, organic soil. Live… Read More →

“Challenging the Default” at NCSU with Alan Berger – “Exterial Landscapes”

by dtoronyi

Monday night’s lecture by Alan Berger, associate professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from MIT, entitled “Exterial Landscapes” is now available (for free!) not available at NCSU’s College of Design’s iTunes U… Read More →

How Do You Say ‘Sustainable Growth’ in Mandarin? | Planetizen

by davetoms

A new report sheds major doubt on some of the emerging Chinese cities’ abilities to grow in a sustainable manner. Some will fare well in the future, according to the report, but many… Read More →

Stormwater Education :: LID Design/Build Studio at NCSU

by davetoms

When Andrew Fox surveyed the grounds behind Syme Residence Hall this spring, he saw a landscape in distress. “It was basically denuded of plants,” he says. “When it rained, it got squishy nasty.”… Read More →