USU Exhibit Highlights 'Design Workshop' Collection
Special Collections and Archives at Utah State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library joins the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning to present a unique exhibit based on a collection now held at the library — the Design Workshop Landscape Architecture Archive and Digital Collection.
The collection features legacy designs by Design Workshop, Inc., a leading international landscape architecture firm.
The exhibition is the first showing of the collection’s designs since its acquisition. It opens Friday, March 25, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Utah Chapter of the State Association of Utah Architects. The exhibition can be seen in the Merrill-Cazier Library atrium through June 18.
A panel discussion March 25 with a number of key Design Workshop associates is offered at 10 a.m. in Merrill-Cazier Library, Room 101. The panel includes Design Workshop founders and USU graduates Joe Porter and Don Ensign, along with current shareholder and Chairman of the Board Kurt Culbertson. They offer a discussion and overview of the firm’s beginnings and the collaborative archiving project between the firm and USU’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department and Merrill-Cazier Library.
Following the panel discussion, an exhibition walk-through is planned.
“Design Workshop’s portfolio of landscape architecture projects in North America, especially in the American West, is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and with the archive’s creation, students, scholars and designers at any location on the planet will have the opportunity to learn from that rich legacy of work,” said Sean Michael, head of USU’s LAEP department, when the collection’s creation was announced.
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Writer: Kristin Heal, (435) 797-2659, kristin.heal@usu.edu
Contact: Brad Cole, (435) 797-8268, brad.cole@usu.edu
This photo provides an example of the work done by Design Workshop, Inc. The firm's "heritage" plans are now a part of a collection held by Special Collections and Archives at Utah State University.
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