Penn State Landscape Architecture Program Celebrates 100th Anniversary
April 27, 2007
Penn State's landscape architecture program is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, with a weekend of activities planned for April 27–29, 2007. Nearly 300 alumni are scheduled to attend the anniversary celebration, out of 2,000 total landscape architecture alumni who have graduated since the first two received their degrees in 1911.
The Department of Landscape Architecture, which originated in the horticulture department, is housed in the Stuckeman Family Building, one of the few buildings on any college campus to earn a Gold Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™. The undergraduate program is currently ranked first in the country (tied with Louisiana State University), according to the 2007 DesignIntelligence® Survey of Leading Landscape Architecture Programs. The program was ranked fourth in both 2005 and 2006 in the annual survey, the only one in the nation to focus exclusively on the design professions. The department has received a record number of undergraduate applications this year, double the number received five years ago.
The landscape architecture department, which offers both bachelor of landscape architecture and master of landscape architecture degrees, will be hosting the 2007 meeting of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) in August, and LABASH, the national conference for landscape architecture students, in 2009.
The department has compiled a hardcover book of images representative of alumni's work dating as far back as 1914. Celebrating 100 Years of Landscape Architecture Excellence at Penn State, which includes both student sketches and examples of professional work, can be purchased online at www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/45318 for $47.95. In conjunction with the book, an exhibition of professional work by landscape architecture alumni is on display in the Willard J. Rouse III Gallery in the Stuckeman Family Building through September 2007.
For more information on the Department of Landscape Architecture, visit www.larch.psu.edu.
Contact: Amy Milgrub Marshall, alm157@psu.edu or 814.863.2104