Dean Emeritus Bill Johnson, FASLA, honored with LAF Medal
SEAS Dean Emeritus, founder of JJR, and highly influential landscape architect, Bill Johnson, has been awarded the 2020 Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Medal. The LAF Medal is conveyed to a...
Feeling stressed? Take a 'nature pill'
Landscape architect and ecologist MaryCarol Hunter is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability whose current work focuses on the impact of nature...
Immigrant Pastoral: Midwestern Landscapes and Mexican-American Neighborhoods
MLA '04 and PhD '09 grad, Susan Dieterlen releases a new book, Immigrant Pastoral: Midwestern Landscapes and Mexican-American Neighborhoods examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in...
Q&A with Kat Shiffler, (MLA '21): Therapeutic Garden Design in Chile
The Jacarandá Garden at San Borja Arriarán, a public hospital in Santiago. / image: Kat Shiffler I was drawn to landscape architecture out of a specific desire to create healthcare environments that...
Professor Emeritus Spotlight: Kenneth J. Polakowski
A River Runs Through It The joggers, picnickers, bike riders, dog walkers, and kayakers who enjoy an afternoon in Ann Arbor’s Gallup Park may consider, on occasion, that they owe a measure of thanks...
MLA Students Win Prestigious Michigan American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Student Merit Award
Award recognizes outstanding academic achievement for their project, "Design and Innovation for the Resilient Campus" Project Summary Project Name: CONFLUENCE: Design and Innovation for the Resilient...
Women Who Mean Business: Lisa Delplace ('88)
Lisa Delplace’s ('88) introduction to the outdoors started very early — and maybe not entirely by choice. She and her two brothers and two sisters spent their childhood helping neighbors with whatever...