ce+d abroad:

I have spent the majority of my life searching for the one thing that my brain will be able to do. After nineteen years of pondering and exploring, I believe I’ve found it: building and designing spaces that will make a positive impact on peoples’ lives. As soon as I figured it out though, I found another: preserving history. Luckily, these fields are intertwined, and my study abroad trip to Croatia proved that they should never be separated.

The College of Environment and Design runs a cultural heritage and archeology trip each summer that is open to all students. The trip combined my new found academic passions and exposed me to landscapes I didn’t know existed. It also unearthed areas of landscape architecture and historic preservation that I had yet to discover. Overall, it showed me how landscape architecture and historic preservation must be intertwined in order to achieve my goal of creating historically respectful places.

There is no single way to describe the complex landscape of Croatia. The country consists of urban and rural communities