College of Architecture and Planning

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Category: Landscape Architecture

  • Craig Farnsworth Shares His Love of Watercolor
    August 17, 2021 by

    I’ve been painting in watercolor for over 30 years. I dabbled with it as a landscape architecture student here at Ball State and then became more serious with it while in graduate school. Ever since, I’ve used it to illustrate designs, document ideas, and record impressions. Along the way, I’ve done freelance watercolor illustration and […]

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  • Consider a Certificate in Sustainability
    August 17, 2021 by

    The Graduate Certificate in Sustainability is administered through the Academy for Sustainability in the R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning. The certificate recognizes the need for participants to work across topical disciplines. And whether citizens are educated as designers or function as participants in the design activity, they collectively must arrive at strategic […]

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  • Pete Fritz named FAICP
    February 25, 2021 by

    Congratulations to LA grad Pete Fritz who has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Fritz, FAICP, PLA, joins an elite group of long-time AICP members recognized for “excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, and community service and leadership.”  His wife, K.K. Gerhart-Fritz, is also a fellow and a […]

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  • Designing a Simple Solution to a Complex Design-Build Challenge
    December 17, 2020 by

    Students in the Landscape Architecture Department had the relatively simple task to program a wooden boardwalk that would connect three trails at McVey Memorial Forest in Randolph County, but the project delivery challenges made the structural solution slightly more difficult. Students and faculty explored options for this community design project in partnership with Red-tail Land […]

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  • Revitalizing Halteman Village
    October 20, 2020 by

    The City of Muncie and the north side Halteman Village Neighborhood Association are working to reestablish the vitality of the Halteman community by reimagining an abandoned swim club property as a new city park. In the summer of 2019, the neighborhood association partnered with Ball State’s Building Better Neighborhoods (BBN) grant-funded immersive learning projects and the […]

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  • Landscape Architecture Students Completed Education Plaza Project
    October 20, 2020 by

    Neither rain, nor snow, nor Covid-19 stopped the Department of Landscape Architecture from completing a design-build project. Over the course of one and a half semesters (the half due to the university’s shutdown during the pandemic) Assistant Teaching Professor Colby Gray and his students designed and constructed an Environmental Education Plaza at Wilderness Park in Hartford City, […]

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  • Colby Gray with Students

    Students Design Learning Laboratory
    December 4, 2019 by

    Like their peers of days gone by, CAP students will be leaving their mark on the campus footprint by designing and building an interactive learning site for future generations. For nearly thirty years, the Tea Garden, a Japanese teahouse, hugged the south side of the architecture building. The structure lent an air of culture and […]

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