IIT Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program, Chicago

Hey all rising landscape leaders, the ILASLA is hosting their annual emerging professionals leadership forum on August 23rd and are looking for potential speakers. This year's forum, titled A Millennial Manifesto: How Millennials Will Save the World, will highlight a diverse group of landscape architects, architects, urban planners, engineers, developers, and policy-makers who are working to address today’s social, environmental, and economic challenges through their organizations, projects, policies, and ideas. They’re currently accepting applications for speakers, so see their page for details on submission: https://www.facebook.com/ILChapter/ or directly submit on their speaker form: https://goo.gl/forms/dA4IQ7hIldkYH6NQ2
The speaker form is very simple - a bio and 250-word abstract about the idea they'd like to speak about.

Illinois ASLA Welcome to the Illinois Chapter of ASLA page, a meeting place for landscape architecture pro

http://arch.iit.edu/life/peter-landPETER LAND: RETROSPECTIVE
Peter Land: Retrospective
Exhibition Opening April 2, 2018 | 5pm
On view March 30 through April 10
S.R. Crown Hall
Upper Core

Peter Land was born in Norwich, England, a medieval city which together with the early influence of his paternal grandfather, a stone-mason, had a profound influence on his decision to pursue work in the field of architecture. Land was awarded a Gran Prix for his graduate studies of urban design at the Royal Academy Schools in London, and holds a diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from Yale University, and a Master's Degree in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University. He is an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

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IIT MLA+U studio spring '18 midterm presentations -Nilay, Trevor and Maria's courses

An exhibition featuring the cherry blossom sketches of our Director Ron Henderson is now open at Washington DC’s National Arboretum and the amazing collection at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. Check out online or in person the unique look at Japan’s cherry trees and horticultural practices, on view through April 8th! https://www.bonsai-nbf.org/upcoming-exhibits/

Congratulations to Valerie Clarke IIT MLA '20 who has been selected as one of five to participate in the 2018 PWP Internship Program.

IIT ALUMNI EVENT
MIES CROWN HALL AMERICAS PRIZE EXHIBITION + PARTY

FRI, MAR 2, 2018
5:30 - 8 p.m.
RSVP BY FEB 26
Please join us for the opportunity to reconnect and network with colleagues, classmates, and current students.
This special alumni event includes an exclusive look at the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) nominated works.

The evening will feature:
-An exhibition of over 100 nominated works recently built in the Americas
-Welcoming remarks from Michelangelo Sabatino, Dean of IIT Architecture, and Dirk Denison, Director of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
- Door prizes of the book, MCHAP: The Americas, Vol.1

Refreshments provided | NO charge | FREE parking

RSVP BY FEB 26
RSVP here:
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IIT MLA+U Cloud Studio Pin Ups

Don't forget to sign up for a winter LARE review session with the Illinois Chapter of the ASLA next Saturday February 17, 2018 8:00 AM CST to 5:00 PM CST. Check out the link for more information

http://il-asla.org/meetinginfo.php?id=213&ts=1517421079

Winter LARE Review Session LARE Candidates in the Chicagoland metro area and in the Great Lakes region are invited to participate in a two track prep session.

Charged Grounds: Places for People
Exhibition Now Open
Lecture and Reception Feb. 12, 2018 | 6 p.m.
Open to the public
S. R. Crown Hall 3360 S State Street Center Core

Counts Studio’s Charged Grounds: Places for People is curated by Maria and Christopher Counts as part of the 2017-2018 landscape lecture and exhibition series at the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture.

The exhibition highlights a selection of the firm’s projects (2013-present) that explore designing contemporary landscapes to have a high level of physical, emotional and social resonance. The exhibition features built and speculative works through process sketches, scaled sculptural models, refined drawings, and photographs.

Counts Studio is an award-winning urban landscape design office based in Chicago and New York City committed to critical making and a process-driven approach in the design and planning of gardens, park, plazas, and memorials. With all of their projects, Counts Studio works to deliver innovative, community-minded spaces that are reflective of the diversity, energy and vitality of our collective contemporary urban culture.

Exhibition on display until Feb. 16, 2018.

MLA+U workshops and first reviews are under way

Welcome back to our MLA+U students who are already visiting sites, exploring new topics, and making in the studio.

The deadline for applying to the MLA+U program is fast approaching. Please consider letting potential applicants in your network know.
MLA, DUAL M.ARCH & MLA: JAN 15, 2018

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Check out our newly implemented inaugural edition of the MLA+U annual compendium of student work and curricular activities.
http://arch.iit.edu/files/pdf/17264/2016-17-iit-mla-u-web.pdf

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Trevor Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor of IIT's MLA+U and Principal of Suprafutures, announces the installation of WindNest at Gallery Guichard in Bronzeville. WindNest was an entry to the LAGI 2010 design competition and was originally conceived for a coastal site in Abu Dhabi. WindNest is a unique renewable energy installation designed as a safe and educational public amenity for visitors. The renewable energy installation demonstrates the potential for our sustainable infrastructures to be joyful contributions to our urban environment. This installation is a quarter-scale prototype. Go check it out.

MLA+U 2017 fall semester Cloud Studio final review. Pier Suprafutures is led Trevor Lee and Ron Henderson. The studio site is Festival Pier along the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Special thank you to our guest critics Alla Vronskaya, Assistant Professor IIT, Andrew Madl, Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design and Kris Lucius, Part Time Professor IIT.

Congratulations to our first year MLA+U students on completing their first semester at IIT and on their final review for Landscape Architecture Studio I: Processes taught by Assistant Professor Maria Counts. The site was the IIT campus. Thank you to our critics Dena van der Wal (Jacobs/Ryan Associates), Sarah Dreier (Greenberg Farrow), Adam White (Jacobs/Ryan Associates), Brad McCauley (Site Design), Kris Lucius (Smithgroup JJR), and our MLA+U program Director and Professor Ron Henderson.

Meg Studer, incoming part-time IIT MLA+U professor, is featured in this month's Landscape Architecture Magazine for her research on 19th-century commodity chains. In line with her work at Siteations Studio and UVa’s Landscape Studies Initiative - visualizing the intersections of design, discourse, and historic material metabolisms - Meg will join ‘Landscape and Time’ students in drawing through the ideals (and operations) of ‘environment,’ as it was mapped, materialized, and manipulated in Chicago’s progressive-era parks and regional plans.

https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2017/11/07/art-directors-cut-november-7/

ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, NOVEMBER 7 The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. From “Written in Place” by Jennifer Reut in the November 2017 issue, about Meg Studer’s e…

Interested in studying landscape architecture and urbanism in Chicago? The MLA+U program at IIT offers the Master of Landscape Architecture professional degree, a dual MLA/MARCH, and advanced standing. For detailed information about graduate admission requirements, deadlines, and scholarships, please visit arch.iit.edu/admissions/graduate, call 312.567.3260, or email [email protected]

IIT College of Architecture Applications to the IIT Architecture graduate degree programs are accepted only for the fall semester. All applicants will need to submit an electronic portfolio to receive an admission decision.Admission Requirements: Below is a list of the materials you will need to submit for all IIT Architecture...

Research by IIT faculty is featured on the cover and in an article in this month's Landscape Architecture Magazine for 'The Driverless City' project. The feature includes work by the Nayar Prize 1 finalist team including Associate Professor Marshall Brown and MLA+U Program Director Ron Henderson. The cover image is rendering of a scenario for autonomous vehicle parking in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood by the IIT team. https://www.zinio.com/www/browse/product.jsp?rf=sch&productId=396773952 #/

Hope you had a spooky Halloween. iitasla visited the Chicago Botanic Garden for the "Night of 1,000 Jack-o'-Lanterns" with more than 1,000 hand-carved pumpkins. https://www.chicagobotanic.org/halloween

Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns | Chicago Botanic Garden

Hugh Keegan of ESRI-Redlands California will deliver a lecture today at 3pm in C014 Crown Hall on "Green Infrastructure" and be available in studio afterwards to speak with students on his experience in Landscape Architecture and environmental and public health, sustainability and climate change.

Hugh Keegan is an alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a masters degree in Landscape Architecture 1980. He has previously worked at the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis before joining ESRI in 1982. He has formerly given presentations in the Landscape Architecture Program at Harvard and in the Planning Program at MIT. Hugh was the project lead on the Green Infrastructure million dollar + effort to compile a nationally consistent inventory of Green Infrastructure cores (natural areas are least 100 acres in size and more than 200 meters wide), along with the development of free web-based tools to explore and leverage them for local and county planning organizations.

For more information on the Green Infrastructure initiative, please have your students check out the April issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine titled: “The Toolmaker” https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2017/04/04/the-toolmaker/ as well as in the May issue of Planning Magazine title: Mapping for the Masses – Sustainability planning that just got more accessible with a free suite of GIS apps and datasets from ESRI” by Jonathan Lerner.

THE TOOLMAKER BY JONATHAN LERNER FROM THE APRIL 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Jack Dangermond wears oversized tortoise-shell glasses. At 72, his hairline has receded halfway back on his head. Fo…

MLA+U 2017 fall semester Cloud Studio mid term review. Pier Suprafutures is led Trevor Lee and Ron Henderson. The studio site is Festival Pier along the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Special thank you to our guest critics Chris Landau, Manager of Design Technology, OLIN Philadelphia Nilay Mistry, Part Time Professor IIT and Alla Vronskaya, Assistant Professor IIT.

MLA+U 2017 midterms are in full swing at IIT. Landscape Architecture Foundation Studio is led by Assistant Professor Maria Counts and Media is led by Adjuncts Kelly Murphy and Aldo Burcheri of Hoerr Schaudt. Special thank you to our guest critics; Robert Rock (Living Habitats), Jameson Skaife (Ratio), Dan Costa Baciu (IIT PhD Candidate), and Madeline Schuette (SmithgGroup JJR) for your time and quality feedback. focuses the fundamental relationships of dynamic landscape processes such as time, light and movement. Students worked to reveal the invisible qualities of landscapes to inform their discoveries and representations in 3d and 2d.

Ron Henderson, Professor and Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program, was landscape architect and technical consultant for the 2010 Shanghai Expo Chinese Pavilion roof garden - one of the largest green roofs in the world. World Architecture journal has just published his preliminary sketches of the garden in an issue, "Architects Draw: To Be Built," which is dedicated to design drawing.

The China Pavilion Roof Garden, Jiuzhou Qingyan, is organized around nine islands based on the founding legend of China and on an early garden at the imperial garden, Yuanming Yuan, in Beijing. Each of the nine islands is a tableau of one of China's diverse and rich ecosystems. Henderson's early sketches that are published in the journal show early investigations into the nine islands.

IIT's Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism hosts a multi-disciplinary workshop Friday October 6 and Saturday October 7 with Columbia University (NY) and University of Illinois - Chicago investigating urban resiliency and sustainability issues in Blue Island. The workshop is led by Professors Lynnette Widder (Columbia Univ.), Moira Zellner (UIC) and Ron Henderson (IIT).

Master of Science in Resiliency Management students from Columbia, Urban Planning and Policy students from UIC, and Landscape Architecture students from IIT will collaborate on scenarios for a site in Blue Island. The site and neighborhood stretch along the lower reaches of the six-mile ridge that protruded above the surrounding marshes. The ridge lent this area the appearance of an island to the European explorers who saw it for the first time in the 1670s. This lower area is most heavily impacted by Blue Island’s current surface water flooding problems. A high water table and aging connections to Chicago’s combined storm and sewage system has resulted in frequent flooding of streets, basements and houses.

Adjacency to the riverine system of the larger Cook County area poses another set of challenges which further compromise traditional ‘grey’ waste and storm water infrastructure. The efforts of the Calumet Water Collaborative and the Metropolitan Planning Council have led to the successful introduction of bioswales to alleviate surface flooding. The success of these projects indicates the great potential of our site to contribute to Blue Island’s green infrastructure planning.

Over the course of the workshop, students will learn aspects of Blue Island’s history and its contemporary conditions relative to its civic, economic and – not least of all – sustainability and resilience strategies.

MLA+U students travel to Philadelphia for the 2017 fall semester Cloud Studio Pier Suprafutures led by Trevor Lee and Ron Henderson. The studio site is Festival Pier along the Delaware River. The students met with Demetrios Staurinos from OLIN Landscape Architects, Karen Thompson from the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and Tammy Leigh from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Thanks for all of those who volunteered their time for helping to organize and lead such a great trip.

Trevor Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor at IIT is Associate and Lead Designer for OLIN's Hudson River Estuary at Pier 26 located in the Hudson River Park near the Tribeca neighborhood. Pier 26 reaches out and over the Hudson River with striking views to the Statue of Liberty and One World Trade Center. The 2.5 acre Pier is located within the Hudson River Estuary, a highly sensitive and ecologically productive body of water that contains a hybrid of freshwater runoff and ocean saltwater. The Pier has a unique mission, providing a physical and virtual space that brings to life the invisible dynamics of the Hudson River Estuary, reflecting the current technologies and scientific understanding regarding its health, ecological successes, and challenges. The physical design of the park is a dynamic gradient experience from upland to lowland, from land to water. This experience provides opportunities for ecological education and offers recreation and leisure spaces for people of all ages. Owner: Hudson River Park Trust. Statue: Design in process. Estimated Completion: 2020

For more information visit:
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Olin’s Pier 26 playground to feature large, scalable native fish OLIN's Pier 26 playground features two sturgeon, supersize green metal versions of native species that children can climb on and slide through.

Come out and support our MLA+U grad Sarah Hanson '15 on running this years 2017 Bank of America Chicago Marathon-- the course runs through the IIT campus at mile 23 along State Street this Sunday October 8th. Go Sarah!! For a link to the full course please visit:https://assets-chicagomarathon-com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/17-CM-Course-Map.pdf and for more information visit: https://www.chicagomarathon.com