Winning landscape architecture designs highlight community needs

Ephemeral Boundaries

In the Fall of 2008, Assistant Professor Roberto Rovira asked his design studio class to create a Center for Land Use Interpretation to integrate the natural and built environment along the Miami-Everglades boundary line, an often contested and ecologically rich area. The design class pushes students to explore creative ideas within [...]

FIU student’s Everglades project receives national recognition

Southeast view: hardwood hammock and swamp

An FIU landscape architecture student received the General Design Honor Award from the National American Society of Landscape Architects in Washington, D.C.  in September. Brennan Baxley recently arrived from the conference and award receiving ceremony, where his project was selected as one of the seven recipients of this year’s award from a [...]

Building for the Future

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FIU students compete to build country’s best solar-powered house By Martin Haro ‘05 FIU students will compete with 20 universities around the world to build an energy efficient, solar-powered house that will be displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., next fall. The FIU house will be uniquely designed [...]

Top scholars from across the disciplines honored

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FIU President Modesto A. Maidique recognized FIU faculty members from a breadth of disciplines for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship at a reception on Tuesday, March 31, at the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Home located at University Park. More than two dozen distinguished members of the FIU academic community [...]