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Smith was the recipient of the 2011 Christian Petersen Design Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. [1] He is well known for his work on the Roof Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art , which consists of white gravel, recycled black rubber, crushed glass, sculptural stones and artificial boxwood plants in a ...
The Iowa State University campus contains over 160 buildings, several of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] Iowa State University 's campus, specifically its Central Campus, has been recognized as one of the nation's most beautiful and was listed as a "medallion site" by the American Society of Landscape ...
The Farm House, also known as the Knapp–Wilson House, is the oldest building on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.Now a museum open to the general public, this house was built 1861-65 as part of the model farm that eventually became Iowa State.
Michael Robert Van Valkenburgh (born September 5, 1951) is an American landscape architect and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects – including public parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, corporate landscapes, private gardens, and urban master plans – in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia.
Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of the built and natural environments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The design of a sustainable landscape encompasses the three pillars of sustainable development: economic well-being, social equity and environmental protections.
Soft landscape materials; Soil conservation; José Antonio Sosa; Space in landscape design; Spark (architects) Spatial design; Spirit of place; Strollology; Subtropical climate vegetated roof; Sustainable gardening; Sustainable landscape architecture; Sustainable landscaping; Sustainable planting; Systematic Paris-Region
The campanile is widely seen as one of the major symbols of Iowa State University. It is featured prominently on the university's official ring [ 1 ] and the university's mace, [ 2 ] and is also the subject of the university's alma mater ("The Bells of Iowa State").
The concept of a memorial to the Iowa Staters who had died in World War I was developed soon after the end of the war itself in 1918. After many ideas were proposed, a bronze plaque, a grotto, or a gateway arch, a group of students rallied for a living memorial, "a building that would provide service to the college and preserve the memory of those that were lost. [1]"