Landscape Architecture Students Wins a 2008 Hart Howerton Fellowship
May 8, 2008
Mary Nunn, daughter of Ray and Kathy Nunn of Yardley and fourth-year landscape architecture undergraduate at Penn State, is one of seven students nationwide to be named a 2008 Hart Howerton Fellow. Awarded annually by Hart Howerton, an architecture, landscape architecture and planning firm based in New York and San Francisco, the fellowship offers recipients a paid summer internship within the firm’s design practice combined with three weeks of self-directed travel.
Nunn has chosen the low-lying coastal city of Bangok as her research destination. While there, she will study the city’s relationship to the Chao Phraya River from environmental, functional, historical, experiential and social standpoints. Nunn notes that Bangkok is historically known for its intricate khlong system and the continual experiential quality of the river and canal system. Since infrastructure development in Bangkok has replaced much of the water systems, Nunn is interested in studying conditions and making connections with the historical layout and contemporary developments. Through her research, she hopes to better understand how Bangkok is dealing with waterfront development in order to think more about how the public deals with water systems and development today and in the future
Nunn, who plans to graduate in spring 2009, has studied abroad and worked in Europe and Australia. On campus she is involved in Alliance Christian Fellowship, Landscape Architecture Student Society and LABASH, the national conference for landscape architecture students.
Contact: Flora Marynak, 814-863-0621, fwm1@psu.edu