2016-2018 News & Events Archive

Nova France SAS seeks interns in landscape architecture, permaculture, and/or horticulture to work on an exciting new project in the Black Perigord region of the Dordogne, southwest France.

The internship has the potential to lead to future employment, subject to fulfilling French residency requirements. Assistance with housing will be provided. The internship start dates are flexible, as is the length of the internship. A minimum 8 weeks is required. The internship is non-paid, but offers great potential for gaining practical experience and bearing responsibility for project planning and implementation. The management team has decades of experience in sustainable agriculture, market gardening, and tourism development.

Learn more about how to apply to this internship here.

Posted 3-21-18.

Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design presents the 2018 Hearst Lecture Series. The last lecture of the series will be on Friday March 9th, 2018. The lectures bring progressive thinkers and leaders to campus to engage students and the public in interdisciplinary topics on Fridays at 5:00 p.m. in the Business Building Rotunda (Building 3 Room 213). For more information contact the coordinators at ctorresb@calpoly.edu, bosbor01@calpoly.edu, and ewhite14@calpoly.edu. Read more about the guest lecturers that will be joining us to close out this series below!

Rosalea Monacella is a registered Landscape Architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the world, generated urban masterplans for cities in China, USA, South America, Europe and Australia that explore design at the nexus of the urban and natural environments, and has been the recipient of a number of national and international awards and grants related to her practice based research as co-founder of the OUTR Research Lab at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia.
Rosalea’s expertise is in the transitioning of the urban environment through a careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of contemporary cities. Her research brings together complex urban issues and advanced digital modelling techniques for the generation of sustainable urban futures. Her design approach is one that simultaneously considers forces from the ’ground-up + top down’ through a careful and rigorous exploration of complex economic, ecological, and social systems that shape an ever-changing city.

Craig Douglas is a Landscape Architect and scholar whose work focuses on innovative techniques and methodologies that explore the agency of representation in landscape architectural design. The approach supports informed and innovative responses to the challenges found at the nexus of the social, ecological and built environment that embrace the spatial, temporal and material complexity of the landscape.
His work explores design as an activity of making as an agent for understanding and responding to the challenges of urbanisation in a rapidly changing world that contributes to the complexity of the contemporary city.
Douglas is a registered landscape architect and has practiced in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands, working in the offices of Karres en Brands Landscape Architects, Ushida Findlay Architects, and Lab Studio. He has a PhD in progress, and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture, and Bachelor of Architecture from RMIT University.

Posted 3-1-18.

A huge congratulations to our student, Michael Lenahan, and his Cal Poly team for achieving a spot as a semifinalist for the 2017 Walt Disney Imagineering’s Imaginations Design Competition! Read more here on our Facebook page to get insight behind the design and user/guest experience of their great project at Swan Island, Maine!

Thursday, February 22 and Friday, February 23, 2018
Cal Poly University Berg Gallery, Bldg 05, Room 105

Resilient design and resiliency directed design is becoming part of local, regional and global professional practice. While definitions are still emerging, a working statement by the Resilient Design Institute provides a starting point by stating that “it is the intentional design of buildings, landscapes, communities, and regions in order to respond to natural and manmade disasters and disturbances—as well as long-term changes resulting from climate change…” We seek to improve on this statement through understanding by examining state of the art practice and its outcomes.

Resilient Design: State of the Art & Emerging Issues will bring together leading professionals involved in the design, and making of buildings, landscapes places to present their resiliency work, to think about the future and to debate the most pressing issues. Professionals from leading firms such as AECOM, Perkins+Will, ARUP, SWA, Waggonner & Ball, Bay Area Resilient Design Challenge, and the Cuningham Group have already committed to participate. This is an exciting and confusing time as all of us try to understand the ways in which resiliency operates and also how it serves the professions and more importantly: society.

For More information please click here.