Dear prospective student, We hope that you have enjoyed reading this catalog. At Conway we emphasize site analysis and information gathering before proposing design solutions. Hopefully, this catalog has provided some of that context for your future career choices. We’d be thrilled if that discovery process led you to apply to our school. The most rewarding part of working at Conway is the sense of purpose shared by students, faculty, and staff. The multiplicity of perspectives and skills we bring will help us face challenges at both local and global scales. It is clear that every person at Conway acts with a sense of responsibility to nature and to humanity, and this ties Photo of Adrian
us together. This passion is probably best displayed during students’ project presentations. We encourage you to join us for one of these days, which take place three times a year. They are informative, fun, and inspiring. Please reach out, whether you have a simple question about the program or you’re trying to figure out if ecological design is the right career path for you. We would be happy to have a phone conversation, exchange email messages, or schedule a visit to campus. Warmly,
Professor Kim Erslev and visiting instructor Jono Neiger discuss functional relationships between site program elements. Students built models (foreground) to experiment with methods for shaping space using hardscape and vegetation.
Faculty and Staff of the Conway School admissions@csld.edu (413) 203-6774
“Conway offers the kind of education you need not just to make a living but to make a difference.” —B ILL MC K IBB E N, AUTHO R, EDUCATO R, ENVI RO NME N TA L I ST, A N D CO FO U N D E R O F 35 0.O RG
“The school’s graduates are experts, without a doubt, but experts with a professional ethos very different from the doctrinaire theoretician designer, who brings her or his vision to impose on the project. Instead, they are experts at understanding human desires and finding the way to express them in ecologically sound design.” —DR. JILL K E R CO NWAY, FO RMER PRESI DENT, SMI TH CO L L EG E , MASSACH U S E T TS www.csld.edu | (413) 369-4044 | 88 Village Hill Road, Northampton, MA 01060 26 The Conway School Graduate Program in Sustainable Landscape Planning + Design
