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Photo credit: Urska Skerl “Academia can and must reach the public” – The International Landscape Architecture Online Platform, LANDEZINE,  interviewed faculty Dr. Anette Freytag about her work, background, and upcoming research projects. Dr. Freytag will become a contributing author to the platform. Read the interview on LANDZINE Read the story in the Rutgers SEBS Newsroom

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The New Jersey Chapter of Landscape Architects organized a tour in Princeton of the Drumthwacket Estate, the official residence of the governor of New Jersey. The group of landscape architects, many of them alumni from our program, explored the complex history of the Drumthwacket Estate and Gardens from its creation as a bucolic landscape in…

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Faculty Fellows’ Tea Friday, April 11, 5:30-7:00pm | HC Fireside Lounge Are you interested in cutting-edge research at Rutgers? You are cordially invited to join us for our inaugural Faculty Fellows’ Tea at the Honors College! Our guests will be Anette Freytag, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, SEBS; Douglass-Honors College Faculty Fellow, and Jose Guillermo Cedeño…

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Date of lecture: April 9,2025 Abstract Color is one of the main ways objects are described in science and depicted in art. Over time, this has led to the development of references such as Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, which contains a list of color names, painted color swatches, and examples of animals, plants and minerals displaying those…

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This unique online database includes over 200 exemplary landscape projects with quantified environmental, social, and economic benefits.The impact of Hoboken Southwest Resiliency Park, Phase 1 was assessed and documented through LAF’s innovative Case Study Investigation (CSI) program, a unique research collaboration among faculty researchers, designers, and students. The Park designer, New York City Whitehouse Landscape…

Continue Reading A new case study of Hoboken Southwest Resiliency Park, Phase 1 has been published to the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s award-winning Landscape Performance Series!

Landscape architecture undergraduate and graduate students designed resilient climate adaptation solutions for 3 cities in the east coast and Caribbean. The results were innovative options that addressed waterfront design, adaptive strategies for historic sites and nature based socially sensitive solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8CNeuovumU

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Doing field research in Hungary, Austria, and Germany, Wolfram Hoefer was invited to the Austrian Public Radio Ö1 Program: “Im Gespräch” (in conversation) with radio host Renata Schmidtkunz. The conversation touches on the relationship between religion and nature. Another aspect of the conversion are the diverse understandings of the term cultural landscape in North America…

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Today, the Biden administration announced that landscape architecture has been designated a STEM discipline!Specifically, Landscape Architecture (04.0601) was added to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) STEM-designated degree program list. Along with landscape architecture, seven additional disciplines were added to the list, including: Institutional Research (13.0608); Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Technology/Technician (15.0407); Composite Materials…

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