02.01.10
Service A Master of Landscape Architecture (M.LArch) studio, taught by Shawn Kalbli, ASLA, is developing a Landscape Master Plan for Frank R. Nims Middle School. In January and February, the M.LArch students presented their analysis and design work to representatives from Nims faculty and Board Members of Keep Tallahassee-Leon County Beautiful. The project will be submitted to the Pepsi Refresh Project for consideration and Principal Collins will pursue funding and implementation support from grants and other sources. Professor Kalbli is an Associate Project Manager with Woods Partners, Inc.
2.5.10 Environmental Analogies
Opening Reception - SOA Gallery - 5:30-7:30pm Exhibit features the work of these FSU Faculty and Students:
Dan Hall, MFA Student
Johnson Hunt, MFA Student
Greer Daulphin, MFA Student
Pat Ward-Williams, Professor
Kabuya Bowens, Professor
Exhibit open 8:00-5:00 through February 26, 2010
1.27.10
Lecture Series "Design for Livability in Extreme High Density Urban Environments" Roy Knight, FAIA, Professor
FAMU School of Architecture, Tallahassee, FL
5:00pm, Room 111
1.15.10 thru 3.16.10
Creative Work Professor Edward (Tim) White, Associate Professor Valerie S. Goodwin and Instructor Deborah LaGrasse were three of ten artists featured in "Diversity and Virtuosity: FAMU Faculty Exhibition" at the Sara May Love Gallery in the Gadsden Arts Center, Quincy FL. The artists, current and retired faculty of the FAMU School of Architecture and the FAMU Visual Arts Department, exhibited work in all mediums including printmaking, photography, quilting, sculpture, and oil painting. For more information, please visit
http://www.gadsdenarts.org/ 1.13.10
Lecture Series "Environmental Law"
Ralph DeMeo, Environmental Lawyer
Hopping Green & Sams, Tallahassee, FL
5:00pm, Room 111
11.18.09
Service The School of Architecture hosted “Building Sustainable Communities”, a "Green" service learning workshop that was funded by the Florida Campus Compact (FCC). The FAMU SOA/ FCC Day Institute highlighted the service learning efforts of diverse academic programs. The featured guest speakers were Phoebe Crisman, a Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Stephen Luoni, the Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., the Director of the Center for Urban Studies at the SUNY University of Buffalo. The FAMU SOA Faculty presenters included Mike Alfano, Andrew Chin, Elizabeth Lewis, Matthew Powers and Gary Purdum, For a copy of the program schedule, click
here.
10.17.09
Service Three FAMU SOA student organizations (Alpha Rho Chi, the Student Chapter of ASLA and the AIAS) collaborated with 30 additional volunteers to install the Woodville Elementary School Wildflower Garden. The service activity and learning garden was coordinated by Associate Professor Matt Powers.
10.09.09
Conference Paper Visiting Professor Gretchen Miller presented "Mapping: The Architecture of Painting" at the 2009 ACSA Southeast Fall Conference in Savannah Georgia. The Oct 8-10 ACSA regional meeting was hosted by the Savannah College of Architecture and Design (SCAD). For more information, please visit
https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/09SEFallConf.aspx
