Student news

An essay by PhD candidate Nubras Samayeen, “A Tale Of Two Cities: Dhaka’s Urban Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century,” has been published as a chapter in a new book: Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization (Peter Lang, 2020).

A team of 13 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students recently won an American Society of Landscape Architects award.

Senior BLA student Amber Sims recently gave a presentation titled “Black Travel” at the new Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.

On Saturday, November 4, the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (IL-ASLA) co-sponsored Field Day Chicago, an event inaugurated to introduce high school students to the field of landscape architecture.