Class Notes Reed Hildebrand LLC Landscape Architecture, founded by Doug Reed (BLA 1978), won an American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) 2020 award of excellence in the residential design category for the Marshcourt estate. Design Workshop,
where numerous LSU alumni work, also won the ASLA honor award for “Afecting Change to Avoid Disaster: Communicating Efective Wildfre Planning Strategies.”
OJB Landscape Architecture won the 2020 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture awarded by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, honoring the practice’s transformation of public spaces nationwide. Led by founder
James Burnett (BLA 1983), FASLA and partner Chip Trageser (BLA 1990), FASLA, OJB has been challenging conventional boundaries of landscape architecture for more than 30 years.
Christine Cain, BID 1984, is principal and owner of Christine Cain Design Inc., with ofces in New York, New York, and Baton Rouge, providing residential interior design serives.
Interior design by Christine Cain Design.
LSU COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Chad Lynch, BArch 1994, was appointed chief operations director of the Ascension Parish, Louisiana public, school system.
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Stephen E. McLaughlin, MLA 1994, RLA, ASLA, practiced landscape architecture for a quarter of a century before having to retire prematurely in 2020 due to advancing symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The last several years of Steve’s career were as a contractor with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, where he provided subject matter expertise in landscape architecture as a supervisor of site design for American diplomatic missions
worldwide, and served as a code ofcial or landscape -related design standards. Steve was previously employed with architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and other consulting frms of various sizes, serving abroad mix of governmental and private sector clientele on projects around the USA and abroad. He also worked in a self-employed capacity, designing residences, additions, decks, patios, and gardens. His frst career was as a U.S. naval ofcer, in both the Atlantic and Pacifc feets. He has been married to Sophia Wang McLaughlin since 1999, and they currently reside in Silver Spring, Maryland.
