Contemporary practice

On Monday, July 31, 2023, 12:00pm-1:00pm ET, the New York City-based CSU: The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization will be hosting an online talk by Eileen Dancuart (MLA Illinois 2002) focused on Bicentennial Park, a project she completed in November 2022 in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru.

Salcedo is the national undergraduate winner of the 2023 Fountain Scholarship, a prestigious award granted by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). She received the award during a ceremony at the CELA Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX.

As Founding Director of the practice Matéricos Periféricos, Ph.D. student Ana Valderrama (MLA, Illinois, 2009) and her collaborators have received a 2022 Inclusion Award from the New York City Architecture Biennial. Their project, "Industrial District," includes a series of practices and two buildings co-constructed with the communities they serve.