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Fifth Year Students Use YouTube to Showcase Senior Projects
Asst. Professor Dr. César Torres Bustamante asked his fifth year students in the Fall 2010 LA 461, Senior Design Project Focus Studio, to create video presentations of their senior projects on YouTube so they could receive crits "virtually."
Department faculty and members of the Department's Landscape Architecture Department Advisory Council (LADAC) were invited to review their work.
The diagram to the left, created by Prof. Torres Bustamante, maps the reviewers and the students to whom they were assigned.
The students were about half-way through their two-quarter capstone project experience when the videos were made.
To see links to their videos, click here.
Student Work Featured in Journal of Architectural Education
An article by Beth Diamond in the September 2010 edition of the Journal of Architectural Education features installation projects by Cal Poly landscape architecture students.
Diamond's article, Safe Speech: Public Space as a Medium of Democracy, discusses guerilla art installation projects assigned for three consecutive years to Cal Poly LA students in her Design Theory course. The purpose of the projects, writes Diamond, was to "demonstrate to students through real life experience that what they do in their role as designers can have a tangible impact on the societies they design for and that the choices they make can alter the way people perceive and experience their world."
For these projects, Diamond writes, "students proposed and constructed temporary art installations with the intention of confronting difficult social realities, instigating dialogue, and contributing to a more empowered, interactive public realm."
The article contains several photos of work by LA students in LA 320, Design Theory for Landscape Architects, including the In Pen (2002), Where's the Beef (2003), Know Your Role (2004), Holidays for Sale (2004), and What is Marriage Anyway (2004) installations on the Cal Poly campus.
Ms. Diamond is an Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Michigan, and was formerly an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly.
Broadway Auto Row Interdisciplinary Studio: Summer 2009
Five landscape architecture students participated in an interdisciplinary studio over Summer quarter 2009, entitled "The Broadway Auto Row Interdisciplinary Studio." This eight-week intensive studio was led by Mike Pyatok and Peter Waller, principals with Pyatok Architects in Oakland, CA, with assistance from CAED Dean R. Thomas Jones and professionals from many fields who shared their insights. A key participant and supporter of the studio was the Oakland-based East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO), a non-profit community advocate comprised of non-profit affordable housing developers, service providers, labor, city, and county agencies. The studio generated creative design interventions that might influence the direction of downtown Oakland development, with a particular focus on promoting affordable workforce housing and related community-serving amenities as an integral component of the larger urban economic revitalization strategy. The report showcasing the student work is available here.
LA 437 3D Digital Design Communications ILC: Spring 2009
Professor Walt Bremer taught LA 437 during Spring quarter 2009. The course required students to create ePortfolios that include information about themselves along with examples of their design work. The portfolios are presented on the LA 437 - Spring 2009 web site.