FIELD NOTES

Snapshots From Our Travels

Architecture: PUERTO RICO

MArch students traveled to Puerto Rico with professors Traci Birch and Marwan Ghandour to explore the architecture of San Juan and Ponce.

Professor Manuel De Lemos, an architect who teaches in Ponce, and his son Manuel De Lemos, an architect and urbanist in San Juan and Miami, gave us an architectural survey of Old San Juan. It was a great opportunity for students to see the historic architecture of the region.

– Director/Professor Marwan Ghandour

Art: TEXAS

Students in Professor Kelli Scott Kelley’s performance art class attended the Experimental Action Performance Art Festival in Houston, where they saw pieces performed by artists from around the world, and visited art galleries and the Menil Museum.

We carried the weekend over into the classroom the following Monday with discussions about the pieces we saw, and their relationship to the work the students are making for the class.

– Professor Kelli Scott Kelley

Landscape Architecture: BRAZIL

Professors Max Conrad and Bruce Sharky led a trip of 26 landscape architecture students to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to discover the built and natural environments of South America.

We took a cable gondola to the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain to see the spectacular view of Rio de Janeiro and visited a garden designed by Roberto Burle Marx, in the mountains above the rural town of Pedropolis. We explored the surrounding regions, taking in many new sites.

– Professor Bruce Sharky

Interior Design: CZECH REPUBLIC

The LSU School of Interior Design collaborated with Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, culminating in a design workshop for LSU and Mendel University students in Brno. The three-day workshop with American and Czech students was held at historic Krtiny Castle.

I was very inspired by the work of Mendel University students and I believe that the students from Mendel University were inspired by our work.

– Catherine Bloemer, BID candidate