MEET OUR 2017 LACF SCHOLARS
2017 SCHWABENBAUER SCHOLARS (6)
- Lindsey McCain, University of Guelph BLA
- School of Environmental Design and Rural Development | Landscape Architecture
- LACF NATIONAL ANDRE SCHWABENBAUER SHOLARSHIP
Ms. Lindsey McCain is a fourth year BLA student that exemplifies the intent of André Schwabenbauer Scholarship. Lindsey is a bright, enthusiastic and hardworking student from Toronto that decided she wanted to be a landscape architect at the ripe age of twelve. Lindsey has worked for Brydges Landscape Architecture in Guelph and participated in Internship ,working in Park Development at the City of Mississauga in 2017. She has also applied her many skills volunteering in the community, designing and planting gardens at Innisfree House Hospice in Kitchener. The BLA Awards and Scholarships Committee notes that Lindsey has excelled in all of her design studios and has always displayed a positive and professional approach to her work. Her undergraduate honours thesis is in exploring the consequences of future abandoned or under-utilized parking lots and petro stations, as hybrid autonomous vehicles replace traditional automobiles. Lindsey is well respected by her classmates and professors and she is a very deserving nominee for the Schwabenbauer Scholarship.
- Ms. Luozijie (Katherine) Xie, University of Guelph MLA
- School of Environmental Design and Rural Development | Landscape Architecture
- LACF NATIONAL ANDRE SCHWABENBAUER SHOLARSHIP
Katherine is a MLA student in her final year of the program. She has a Bachelor of Horticulture degree from South China Agricultural University and was enrolled, with stunning success, in our Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program for two years. Katherine is a highly-skilled student of design and achieved the top grades in her landscape architecture studio courses at University of Guelph. She has been nominated for the Schwabenbauer Award because she has a distinct interest in the practice and research of landscape design and is the most-deserving nominee in her cohort.
- Vincent Javet, University of Toronto MLA
- Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
- LACF NATIONAL ANDRE SCHWABENBAUER SHOLARSHIP
Vincent Javet received his Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning as well as a certificate in Landscape Design from Ryerson University. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Since joining the MLA program, Vincent has held research assistant positions with the Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory (GRIT Lab) and MIT Urban Risk Lab, as well as professional internships with North Design Office and West 8 in New York. He serves as a member of the editorial board and regularly contributes to the OALA magazine, Ground. Vincent is a recipient of numerous awards including the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Garden Club Toronto Scholarship, Len Stanley - King of Kew Scholarship, and Janet Rosenberg Studio Project in Landscape and Urbanism Award.
Vincent was nominated as the recipient of the 2017 Andre Schwabenbauer Scholarship Award for his outstanding academic performance, excellence in design, and contributions to design research, professional practice, and communication. His design work has consistently demonstrated intellectual rigor, creativity, and technical skills. His interest and commitment to studying environmental performance and developing innovative visualization methods for dynamic landscapes are evident in his design and research work. Vincent is clearly a very talented and bright student and shows great potential for a successful career in the Landscape Architecture field.
- Nicole Alden, University of British Columbia MLA
- School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
- LACF NATIONAL ANDRE SCHWABENBAUER SHOLARSHIP
Nicole Alden is a Masters candidate at the University of British Columbia’s Landscape Architecture program entering her final year. Nicole previously completed a degree in fine art at Mount Holyoke College in 2009, where her thesis focused on the subtle interactions of people in everyday spaces, creating site-specific installations in hallways and bathrooms. Much of her work as an artist takes form in mixed-media sculpture, printmaking, and site-specific installation. Her work in printmaking led her to work for fine art printer, Peter Pettengill, assisting on prints for artists that include Walton Ford and Louise Bourgeois. Nicole continues to draw upon her fine art practice, and is interested in how ecological interventions and natural systems can support the experiential and poetic engagement of site. She is currently working on a directed study with Cowichan Tribes to draft a conceptual plan for a commemorative park on an important archaeological heritage site. Her final graduate project will question current conventions for elementary school design in North America.
- Marianne Pascual, Université de Montréal MAP
- École d’urbanisme et d’architecture de paysage, Faculté de l’aménagement
- LACF NATIONAL ANDRE SCHWABENBAUER SHOLARSHIP
University of Montreal, award recipient Marianne Pascual, is an outstanding student who entered the MLA program with a background in scenegraphy at the baccalaureat level. She excelled in all aspects of her academic career in landscape architecture. She distinguished herself above all, by her enthusiasm, her curiosity and her unwavering involvement in every project she undertook, as well as her undeniable talent as a designer. We believe that this candidate promises a brilliant career as a landscape architect.
- Dilaxshy Sivagurunathan, University of Manitoba MLA
- Faculty of Architecture – Landscape Architecture
- LACF NATIONAL ANDRE SCHWABENBAUER SHOLARSHIP
Dilaxshy is a graduate in the Landscape + Urbanism option of our Bachelor of Environmental Design program. She has demonstrated consistently thoughtful and creative design solutions in her studio work and in her course work in both the ED program and the MLA program. Presentation of the award is scheduled for January 2018
BOURSE D'ÉTUDES PETER KLYNSTRA COMMÉMORATIF 2017
Aiden Fudge is a second year MLA candidate at the University of Guelph, and the fourth winner of the Peter Klynstra Memorial Scholarship. He’s planning to pursue a thesis dealing with natural and cultural heritage conservation, with a focus on Atlantic Canada. But first he’ll spend the winter 2018 semester studying abroad at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
ATLANTIC LANDSCAPE LACF DALHOUSIE SCHOLARSHIP
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Joan Cole is the first winner of the Atlantic Landscape LACF Dalhousie Scholarship, and a third year student in Dalhousie University’s Bachelor of Technology in Landscape Architecture Program. Joan balances varsity athletics and part-time work with her studies, and achieves academic excellence. Work experience in the landscape trade, environmental monitoring and mining have opened her eyes to the potential for meaningful contributions to be made by landscape architects.
LACF / UBC SCHOLARSHIP IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
The 2017 LACF / UBC Scholarship in Landscape Architecture goes to Ms. Taylor Boisjoli (picutured above left, with Jane Durante, LACF). “Taylor received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University. While completing her Master of Landscape Architecture, Taylor was an enthusiastic and optimistic student, with a thorough and thoughtful approach to sustainability, biodiversity, and community building. Her graduate project, “Returning to Blunden Harbour: A Boardwalk Community of the 'Nakwaxda'x̱w Nation,” aimed to reconnect a remote coastal First Nation with their traditional practice of aquaculture by redesigning the historic boardwalk community. Her ability to balance the practical with the visionary served her through both this project, and her studies at UBC. She is currently working as a Landscape Designer with Connect Landscape Architecture in Vancouver.”