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16 Editor’s Message
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From the Trustee

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2019 and the Renaissance of LA@UConn

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Meet the New UConn Faculty

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John Alexopoulos: Five Decades of Gratitude

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Kristin Schwab: Woman For All Seasons

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Mark Westa: Balanced, Consummate Professional

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UConn Storrs Campus and the 1911 Master Plan

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New Urbanism and Storrs Center

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ASLA Wants Emerging Professionals, But Do Emerging Professionals Want ASLA?

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From the Editor

You know the old saying, parents are steering their students away from landscape
“You don’t know what you architecture in favor of careers that are perceived as
have until you lose it?” being more lucrative. The fact is that although starting
That’s how I am feeling about the salaries are on the low side, landscape architects eventu-
retiring UConn landscape archi- ally have an income that is in line with other professions
tecture faculty. As I write this that require a college degree (It doesn’t help that profes-
column, the UConn Landscape sionals perpetuate the misconception of low pay by con-
Architecture Program is in a state stantly complaining about inadequate compensation).
of transition. Time will tell in But I digress — back to the UConn program. Not
what direction the program goes. What we do know is only are professional salaries in line, but the May 2019
that with three out of five professors having retired, the issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine reports that
program will change. One important connection that is self-employed landscape architects make an average of
being lost is a link to the founder of the program, Rudy $10,000 more per year than their counterparts. So why
Favretti. John Alexopoulos was Rudy’s first hire and the not offer a course or two in entrepreneurship, giving
two worked together to build the landscape architecture students a much-needed dose of business acumen? Per-
curriculum that is in place today. haps this could be worked into the professional practice
Reading the profiles of the retiring professors in curriculum. I also hope that the relationship between
this issue, I am struck by the depth of knowledge and CTASLA and UConn is strengthened. CTASLA can
commitment that the three brought to the program. help give students an understanding of what life as a
Although I have taught a couple of courses as an adjunct, professional landscape architect is like and the tools
I did not truly realize how deep that knowledge and that they will need for success. This might decrease the
commitment went. We wish Kristin, Mark, and John number of students that migrate out of the program.
the best as they transition out of teaching. Kudos also to Seems like a win-win to me.
professionals who stepped up as adjunct instructors to
help keep the program on track this past semester (the W. Phillips Barlow, pla, asla, aicp, leed ap
first semester to be affected by the retirements).
This transition of the UConn landscape architec-
ture program is happening in the context of a national
decline in enrollment in design majors. Explanations for
the reasons for the decline vary as much as the people
giving the explanations, but one that makes sense to me
is the perception of low compensation. Evidently many

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From the Trustee State Board News

A s part of ASLA’s Advocacy Day on May 2, BY MARK ARIGONI, ASLA, CHAIR
landscape architects from across the nation CONNECTICUT STATE BOARD OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
descended on Washington, DC to advocate for
our profession. The goal was simple: highlight the vital The Connecticut State Board of Landscape
role that landscape architects play in their communities Architecture has had an event-filled 2018 and
to build outdoor spaces that are safe, healthy, resilient, beginning of 2019. The end of 2018 saw the retirement
and sustainable. Specifically, advocates asked for support of dedicated board member Stephen Wing after 20
of three bills: The Restore Our Parks Act, which would years of service. We saw the appointment of new board
provide funds for national park maintenance, The Water member Dominick Celtruda and appointment of the
Quality Protection and Job Creation Act, and the Trans- new Board Chairman, Mark Arigoni. Many thanks
portation Alternatives Enhancement Act. go to previous Board Chairman Phil Barlow, who
The advocacy team from Connecticut included successfully guided the board over the past several
CTASLA president Tom Hammerberg, president-elect years. Phil remains an active board member along
Oliver Gaffney, recent UConn graduate Weston Henry, with Anne Penniman. While there are currently no
and myself as trustee. We first visited the office of Sena- openings for landscape architects on the board, there
tor Murphy, where we formally presented him with the are two openings for public members. If you know of
chapter’s Olmsted Award. In an unprecedented moment, someone that may be interested in serving as a public
staff actually asked us to wait for 10 minutes until the member, please reach out to an existing board member
senator returned from a floor vote so that he could meet or directly to the member board executive, Karen
us and personally receive the award (lobbyists are usually Layman, at the Connecticut Department of Consumer
whisked in and out quickly). Senator Murphy and his Protection.
staff are HUGE supporters of CTASLA and the work
that landscape architects are doing in the state. The Con- Milestone
necticut team also met with staff from the offices of Sen-
ator Richard Blumenthal, Representative Joe Courtney The board, with significant input and assistance from
(2nd district), and Representative Rosa DeLauro (3rd the CT DCP staff and CTASLA chapter leaders, has
District). successfully completed a multiple year effort to remove
At the mid-year ASLA meetings, the order of busi- redundancy, provide clarification, and streamline
ness included: the state statutes and regulations pertaining to board
• Discussions on ASLA policy statements. duties, authority, and functions. The revised regulation
• Presentations by, and election of, new Vice Presidents. is expected to be adopted in 2019 upon completion of
• Selection of Honorary members, The Design Award, all public and legislative review periods.
Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the Olmsted
Medal and other various ASLA awards. Look for these
announcements at the Annual Conference.
• Presentations by ASLA presidential candidates Tom
Mroz and Gary Brown.
It continues to be my distinct honor to serve
CTASLA as your Trustee!

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2019 and the Renaissance of LA@UConn

BY PETER MINIUTTI, ASLA

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
— Ernie Harwell

It is time to say goodbye department, and the community of landscape
architects across the state. In 2009, the department
Landscape architecture at the University of voted for a name change from “Plant Science” to
Connecticut is alive and well. We have just “Plant Science and Landscape Architecture.”
completed our 21st year as a nationally The four of us all shared the same vision…
accredited undergraduate program. As one of only to produce the highest quality undergraduate
four accredited programs in New England, and the students possible. We debated the means and
only one in Connecticut, UConn prides itself on methods, but the goal was consistent for over 20
providing broad-based, rigorous studio training for years and it is hard to argue with the program’s
a small, high quality student body. success. Our alumni now work in some of the best
It wasn’t always this way. In 1993, there was landscape architecture firms in the country includ-
no national accreditation, no dedicated studio ing Peter Walker, SWA Group, Sasaki, Michael
space, and only one tenured faculty member — Van Valkenburg, Carol Johnson, EDSA and The
John Alexopoulos. It was an uncertain time with Design Workshop. We have alumni who’ve grad-
the program teetering on the edge of existence. uated from impressive graduate schools, including
Then I joined John in 1995. A couple of years Harvard’s GSD, Cornell, City College of New
later, Kristian Schwab and Mark Westa were hired. York, University of Georgia, and UMass.
With the four of us, things began to happen. First Yet, our greatest impact has been within the
and foremost, the program moved into a dedicated state of Connecticut. We have a multitude of
studio space in the basement of the WB Young alumni licensed in Connecticut with a handful of
building. We had a home. Provisional national others licensed in other states. We have alumni in
accreditation followed in 1998. By 2003, we were the majority of the larger firms within the state.
all tenured and the “provisional” status gave way Of these 30 larger firms in the state, 25 have hired
to full national accreditation. We had done it. We UConn alumni. Here is a list of some of the firms
received tremendous support over the years from that consistently hire UConn alumni:
our department heads, key colleagues within the
continued next page

A blast from the past: This
magazine reporting on the
Landscape Architecture
program at UConn in
1991 and 1999.

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Renaissance @ UConn cont’d Last spring (2018),
the program hired
• Milone & MacBroom (multi-disci- two new tenure-track
plinary): currently employing four faculty, Dr. Sohyun
UConn alumni, including Vince Park and Dr. Sungmin
McDermott, head of the landscape Lee. The three of us,
architecture group. along with five adjunct
instructors, Mariana
• Richter/Cegan (LA only): currently Alfonso Fragomeni, Phil
employing five UConn alumni, Barlow, Tracy Miller,
including principal Mike Cegan. Natalie Miniutti, and
Bill Weckman, carried
• S/L/A/M Collaborative (multi- the program through the
disciplinary): currently employing 2018-2019 academic
five alumni including the head of year. We are currently
the landscape architecture practice, in the middle of a new
Dan Granniss. search for a senior level,
tenured faculty member
to assume the Program
Our alumni are also involved Coordinator position,
in state leadership. For instance, of a position that I will Student abroad trip, 2017.
the dozen members comprising the
CTASLA Executive Board in 2016 and graciously relinquish to
2017, seven were UConn alumni. the new hire. This will give us a couple of Agriculture, Health, and Natural
Last year, John Alexopoulos, of years to make a seamless transition Resources, and our Department Head,
Kristin Schwab, and Mark Westa from the “old guard” to the new. Next, Richard McAvoy in the Department
retired. The “ride” that started in 1995 we open another national search for of Plant Science and Landscape Archi-
is over. We all put everything we had our fifth tenured/tenure track position, tecture, our program is seeing funding
into the program and we are proud owing to the fact that the minimum and growth at an unprecedented rate.
of all of our students and the growth requirement for having accredited Our plan is to have our MLA program
of LA@UConn. Landscape architects programs for both a BSLA and a MLA up and running in the next couple
build things and we built this program.

Transitional Period 2018-2021 is having five tenured faculty. of years. Along with the graduate
degree, we see a renewed emphasis
Who is left and what is next for Hello to a New Adventure on multi-disciplinary research with a
the program? Well, I am still here for a substantial increase of state and federal
couple of more years and I have been LA@UConn is fast-tracking to grant funding. There is a new para-
reinstated as Program Coordinator. MLA@UConn. With the support of digm at “Research 1” universities that
our newly hired Dean in the College if junior faculty do not have funded

research (even in Landscape Architec-
ture), tenure will be mighty hard to get.
Very different from when John, Kristin,
Mark, and I earned tenure. With that
in mind, strong research programs were
a primary consideration when hiring
Dr. Park (i.e., ecological systems) and
Dr. Lee (i.e., human health). See page 9
for an introduction to these new faculty
members.
The building of the LA@UConn
program was an extraordinarily dif-
ficult effort, only made possible by
the self-sacrifice of John, Kristin, and
Mark. I feel proud and honored to have
been part of their team.
Professors Mark Westa, Peter Miniutti, and Kristin Schwab (with Natalie Miniutti, second from right) at a student Thank you and goodbye.
trip to Yosemite National Park in 2011.

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Meet the New UConn Faculty Dr. Sungmin Lee

Dr. Sohyun Park I completed my PhD
degree at Texas A&M
Prior to joining UConn, University and degrees in
I worked at the Department of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture at Texas from Seoul National Uni-
Tech University for four years. versity. I have four years
I earned my PhD degree in Envi- of professional experience
ronmental Design and Planning at as a landscape architect
Arizona State University, a Master’s in South Korea. During
in Landscape Architecture from my doctoral study, I worked at the Design Research
Seoul National University, and a for Active Living (DrAL) team within the Center
BS in Biology from Sookmyung Women’s University in Korea. I for Health Systems and Design and had actively
have been teaching environmental planning, community planning, participated in several research projects funded by
urban design, regional planning, planting design, design princi- the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Scott
ples, and landscape ecology. In 2018, I obtained the designation and White Hospital, focusing on the relationships
of SITES Accredited Professional and a certification in Designing between built environments and physical activities
Early Childhood Outdoor Environments from North Carolina across the life-course. My overall research areas lie in
State University. My research interest includes the relationships healthy and safe environments, focusing on environ-
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project partners, the project is intended to develop a comprehen- health and safety of individuals and to identify envi-
sive preservation plan and augmented reality technology for the ronmental facilitators and barriers to healthy living.
Palmito Ranch Battlefield (the last land Civil War site) located in My specialty is to generate and analyze both micro-
the southern tip of Texas. I am also working with several collabora- scale environmental variables captured through audit
tors on joint research that examines the roles of parks, open spaces, tools and macro-scale variables through Geographic
and natural areas on fine particulate matter in 30 U.S. cities. The Information Systems (GIS). My current research
preliminary findings from the pilot study were presented at the agenda includes healthy aging and safe environ-
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference held ments, health disparities and environmental inequal-
in Sacramento, California in early March, 2019. ities, active transportation for children, and healthy
I have also been working on several research proposals for food environments and obesity.
internal and external grants; one of them is a story-telling project
documenting the stories of ecology, history, and people in the
Demilitarized Zones (DMZ) in Korea. This is a collaborative effort
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Scenes from a semester…or two

Above: Four groups of senior students participated in the Dream Green This past Spring, the senior LA students’ capstone project was themed “Reimagine and
Eco-Design Competition hosted by the City of Hartford’s Office of Redesign Hartford Landscape.” Students selected various topics, including sustainable
Sustainability. One group was selected among four finalists. Below: neighborhood planning, social equity, green infrastructure, resilience, water management,
UConn faculty and students attended the ASLA Annual Meeting & brownfield/landfilled, safety, and walkability, and applied theoretical knowledge and
Expo in Philadelphia in October 2018. We were on hand to greet alums design skills. The projects were presented at the Hartford Public Library on May 3.
at the college tailgate reception.

Right: More than 20 Senior students
students in the UConn enjoyed a short
Landscape Architecture field trip to Storrs
Program participated in the Center to explore
LABash 2019 national New Urbanism
conference held in Georgia characteristics in
from April 4-6. At this the downtown
event, UConn junior urban block. The
student Moisés Hernández- visit gave the
Rivera won second prize in students an
the LABash 2019 Design opportunity to
Competition. His engage with site
submission, a residential users and to
design for an historic house understand the
in Skidaway Island, GA, design features
was part of a project from through hand
his spring semester Planting sketching and site
Design class. exploration.
Junior students in Planting Design presented their second
project in gallery format. The project goal was to design a
prototypical pollination garden using knowledge about
pollinators and native plants. Guests voted for their
favorite poster, and several students with people’s choice
were recognized in the last class in May 2019.

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John Alexopoulos: Five Decades of Gratitude

BY MARK WESTA, ASLA

To be honest, in those early has some great stories about road trips Who volunteers to help
years I don’t have a crystal-clear to Chicago and to the south and about teach and build an
memory of John. Being a how Julius Fabos thought some of the academic program?
brand-new faculty member is pretty students’ work was “shittee.” Someone who is selfless,
overwhelming — large amounts of He spent some time working for someone who believes
time trying to figure out what the heck the Knox Foundation in Hartford, deeply in the profession,
you are supposed to be doing and how helping people with not very much and someone who is
to do it meet some of their basic needs. willing to give his time
Kristin Schwab was just getting And then in 1971 he volunteered and energy to others.
started as well, so we became fast to teach at UConn and to help Rudy
friends. Peter Miniutti was also pretty Favretti build a landscape architecture During that time, they must have
new, but compared to us he was a sea- program. Who volunteers to help been the dynamic duo. Two people
soned veteran. The three of us spent teach and build an academic program? doing the work of many. This meant
quite a bit of time together. Someone who is selfless, someone who not only teaching all of the courses
At that time, I was in my early believes deeply in the profession, and required, but first developing a syllabus
30s and John was in his early 50s. His someone who is willing to give his time and getting those courses approved by
kids were in high school or college and and energy to others. a Department that did not have strong
mine where were just getting started. Rudy and John did build that connections to design. No small task.
So we didn’t have a lot in common. program. In 1977 the Department of For those of you who haven’t been
Also, for anyone who knows John, Plant Science voted to support the goal closely involved in an academic pro-
there is a certain, say, inscrutableness, of gaining national accreditation and to gram, what they did might not seem
to him. He often says things that make hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor. overly hard. But from an insider’s point
you think twice, and even then, you That position was filled by John and of view it is bordering on miraculous.
can’t always figure it out. thus the beginning of his formal con- Simply getting a course approved takes
I do remember at least one thing nection to UConn, over 40 years ago. many levels of…negotiations — let
from those early days. That was the alone committing to teaching the
day I brought a number of colored course without the hope of additional
index cards to a meeting with all of the people to assist in the effort.
courses we offered on them and sug- What did it take to make this hap-
gested we should work to rearrange the pen? It took hard work and sheer will
courses to better fit together. and maybe a slightly subversive streak.
And that brings me to what I really Sounds like John to me.
want to say about John. And that is When I came to UConn in 1998
that he is one of the funniest, kindest, all the parts were in place: a full curricu-
smartest, big-hearted people you will lum, four faculty members (John, Peter,
ever have the pleasure to meet. Here Kristin, and Mark), and most impor-
we were…I had been in the trenches a tantly, initial accreditation from the
good month or two and John had been Landscape Architecture Accreditation
there for over 20 years. Did he tell me Board. John was instrumental in form-
off? Not a chance. Did he make fun of ing the curriculum; he got many new
me? You better believe it. courses approved and was involved in
John spent almost 50 years helping hiring all of the faculty during that time.
to bring the University of Connecticut
Program of Landscape Architecture continued next page
to fruition. After getting a degree in
horticulture from UConn he went
up the road to UMass for a graduate
degree in Landscape Architecture. He

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John Alexopoulos cont’d scape architecture curriculum, teach- profession of landscape architecture
ing some classes together, and having owes him a huge debt of gratitude.
Perseverance would be an apt our always exciting weekly Landscape As for me, I owe him a lot as well.
description. Or dedication. Or maybe Architecture Program meetings. He While I don’t see John as much as I
possibly a little stubbornness. has become a great friend, the type of used to, I certainly hope that we will
And then I got to spend 20 years friend who you believe in and trust no still get to play some golf and raise a
working with John. The early years matter what, always. few beers. And I can’t wait to see more
were a bit of a blur, but over time I did So here is what I know about John. pictures of the grandkids.
get to know him and, more than that, I He is funny, smart, cares deeply about — Mark Westa is a former UConn
learned that every time John said some- people, cares deeply about landscape professor who is now in private practice
thing, I would be wise to pay attention. architecture, is selfless, dedicated, kind, with Stevens & Associates in Brattleboro,
He might be saying something very funny, stubborn, sarcastic, a beer lover, Vermont.
funny, or very wise, or most likely both. a soccer lover, a true family man. My
I have seen him help students through friend.
hard times in class and in life. I have seen John retired
him help his family and his friends. from UConn in
Speaking of his family, his wife January of 2019,
Angela and his sons Chris and Nick over 50 years since
have always been central to his life. And he was a student
now with grandkids there is no way you and over 40 years
get to talk with John without hearing since he was offi-
what they are up to. It is truly one of cially hired on as
the best parts of John — his obvious an Assistant Pro-
and deeply felt love for his family. fessor. He built a
Over these last few years I have career, but beyond
spent quite a bit of time with John, that he built a
mostly working on improving the land- program. The

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Kristin Schwab: Woman For All Seasons

BY JOHN ALEXOPOULOS, ASLA

K ristin Schwab has retired from Sustainable Site Design: Criteria, Pro-
the University of Connecticut cess, and Case Studies for Integrating Site
after 20 years of outstanding and Region in Landscape Architecture.
service to the school and to the state. In addition, Kristin has produced a
She played a critical role in assuring number of publications as a result of
that the landscape architecture pro- research and outreach projects. One
gram maintained its national accredi- of these publications was Bridgeport
tation, participating in a major way in Eco-Technology Park Visioning, a funded
four accreditation evaluation reports. project as part of the UConn Cities
Her role has been as teacher to both Collaborative. This project was initiat-
graduate and undergraduate students, ed with a Provost’s Award for Program
program coordinator, mentor, author, Excellence in Public Engagement,
researcher, outreach coordinator, Uni- which Kristin coordinated on behalf
versity senator, and colleague. She of the collective work in landscape
taught nearly every course offered, architecture outreach. The Office of
including design drawing, presentation Public Engagement became interested
drawing, studio design (graduate and in developing a model of place-focused,
undergraduate), community planning sustainability-based, multidisciplinary
studio, planting design, construction, outreach based on the University of program’s UConn Cities Collaborative,
and her Environmental Planning Oregon’s Sustainable City Year pro- which led to pilot projects conducted
writing course. In the writing course, gram (SCYP). Kristin saw a key role with the first partner city of Bridgeport,
Kristin was able to incorporate current for the landscape architecture program. CT. She also represented UConn at SCYP
planning and design issues, especially She became involved in the steering national conferences in 2015 and 2016.
sustainability. committee and its sub-
Along with alumna Claudia Dinep, sequent development of
Kristin researched and wrote the book, the landscape architecture Kristin played a critical role in

assuring that the landscape

architecture program maintained its

national accreditation, participating

in a major way in four accreditation

evaluation reports.

Kristin Schwab takes a
group of UConn
students on a site visit to
Central Park in NYC.

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Leadership Award (UConn).
The program has always hired
tenure-track faculty that not only
had teaching experience and were
able to produce research, but were
also successful practitioners. Kristin
came to UConn with teaching expe-
rience from Iowa State University,
where she had earned her MLA. She
subsequently worked professionally
for six years for professional firms in
California and also as a sole practi-
tioner. She is licensed in both Con-
necticut and Rhode Island.
Kristin recently teamed with
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Kristin and her husband Richard
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Mark Westa: Balanced, Consummate Professional

BY KRISTIN SCHWAB, ASLA

M ark Westa and I started our magazine, and establishing program
careers at UConn the same relationships with firms. Teaching the
year, 1998, the year that professional practice course for many
our program first attained national years, he fostered connections between
accreditation. With an undergraduate students and professionals, arranging
degree in landscape architecture from office tours, taking students to profes-
Cornell and an MLA from Harvard, sional conferences, and always empha-
Mark’s career had been spent entirely sizing the importance of professional
in private practice up until that time, demeanor — not always within the
primarily in the upstate New York mindset of undergraduate students!
region. His combination of a wealth of Growing the program’s technology
successful professional experience, out- capabilities and digital design curricu-
standing educational background, and lum was another important aspect of
expertise in digital media made him a increasing the professional readiness
great fit for what the program needed of our graduates contributed by Mark.
to grow and progress. His motivation Starting a laptop program for students,
for migrating his career to academic procuring digital output and scanning
practice was inspired in part by the equipment, and developing a full range
fact that his father was an educator, of digital design curricula from CAD tion teams led him to visit and evaluate
and he felt driven to teach and explore to GIS were critical needs that he ful- landscape architecture programs all
landscape architecture in a new way. I filled for our program. Although digital over the United States. In addition to
can still recall the vision of Mark and design was not his primary passion in impacting and assisting the programs
his wife, Sue, wheeling their youngest landscape architecture, the importance he evaluated, these experiences gave
daughter, Ellen, and intensity of this him a window into the trends, issues,
around Horse task, especially in the and ideas of other programs, which was
Barn Hill in a As I reflect on the absence of technical a tremendous help for us as we worked
to improve and develop our profession-
stroller the first impact Mark had on support staff, cannot ally accredited program at UConn.
day he brought his our program over these be understated. A second theme that I think
family to campus. Midway captures Mark’s imprint on UConn’s
Now, some 20 many years, there are a through his career landscape architecture program is field
years later, Ellen at UConn, Mark study. Whether it was urban adventures
has graduated few themes that stand would turn his focus to immerse the students in the vibrant
from college, and out: professionalism, on professionalism streets and great city parks of Boston or
Washington, DC, or more rural trips
Mark has “gradu- field study, and balance. toward collabora- into regions like the Hudson River
ated” from UCo- tion with campus Valley to combine hiking in natural
nn and moved planning and design areas and visits to historic estates and
back into professional practice. As I at UConn, dividing his time between parks like Storm King, he imparted the
reflect on the impact Mark had on our serving as the campus landscape archi- importance of experiencing all sorts of
program over these many years, there tect and continuing to teach in the LA landscapes to our students. Himself an
are a few themes that stand out: profes- program. This brought many benefits avid outdoorsperson, I think this trans-
sionalism, field study, and balance. to the program and our students, and lated as part of his educational mantra:
Coming directly from private it established the campus landscape as a stimulating the curiosity about and
practice, it’s not surprising that Mark University priority and point of pride, sheer enjoyment of our design medi-
would bring a strong focus on pro- reaping further staff positions for the um (the landscape) as a critical part of
fessionalism, and this benefited the planning office, signature outdoor spac- the training and lifelong learning of a
program in a myriad of ways. He es, and work for consulting landscape landscape architect. One of the most
became a key point of contact between architects.
CTASLA and the program, serving on Finally, Mark’s involvement with continued next page
the executive board, editing the chapter ASLA’s national accreditation evalua-

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Mark Westa cont’d is a person who just seems to exude by his taking an interest and concern in
balance. He works hard but he also students who may have been struggling,
ambitious trips Mark spearheaded was a has passions and priorities outside of he helped guide students toward a
week-long “transect” adventure in Cali- work — he plays soccer and ice hockey healthy balance of work and play, land-
fornia for the senior class, which started and he skis, he loves music and plays scape architecture and other enriching
with attendance at the ASLA national the guitar, he has an active family and interests.
meeting in San Diego and took us to friends’ network. Within the Univer- These are some insights I gained
the Getty Museum and Venice Beach in sity, Mark really liked to go outside of on Mark and his many contributions to
Los Angeles, to visit the Cal Poly pro- our discipline and program and delve UConn’s program of landscape archi-
gram of landscape architecture in the into the richness of the larger campus tecture, many of which were possible
Central Coast, tent camping and hiking life. When the trend for live-learn only by sharing a (not particularly
in Yosemite, and finally to San Francis- communities started he became the well-insulated) office wall with him for
co’s Golden Gate. Whether extended faculty advisor for EcoHouse, which 20 years. He and Sue have relocated to
trips such as this or even just regular “provides a culture of sustainability for Brattleboro, VT, where he is the leader
walks across campus to inspect con- students who are passionate about envi- of the landscape architecture group at
struction sites, these kinds of experienc- ronmental issues through diverse ser- Stephens & Associates, an integrated
es have formed indelible impressions vice-learning experiences and academic and award-winning architecture, engi-
on our students and helped develop the discourse.” He balanced what can neering, and landscape architecture
uniqueness of and reputation of our sometimes be a very insular world of consulting firm specializing in livable
program. landscape architecture by working with communities, historic building preser-
The last theme I thought about for an interdisciplinary group of students vation, and campus design.
Mark is balance. College is a time for and faculty there, and in so doing also — Kristin Schwab is a former UConn
intense growth and discovery, but also turned many students on to the field professor who is now in private practice
pressure and stress for many college of landscape architecture. I think his with Dinep + Schwab Landscape
students who are also learning to man- sense of balance really came through to Architecture.
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ICONIC CONNECTICUT LANDSCAPES

UConn Storrs Campus and the 1911 Master Plan

BY PHIL BARLOW, ASLA in 1910 landscape architect Charles N. Lowrie was engaged
to produce a “General Plan” (what we now call a “Master
W hat became known as the Storrs Agricultural Plan”). Lowrie may have been known to Beach as he was
School was established in 1880 when brothers based in New York City and was a prominent design pro-
Charles and Augustus Storrs donated 170 acres of fessional, having graduated from Yale in 1891. Lowrie was
hay fields and $5,000 so that the sons of local farmers could one of the 11 founding members of the American Society of
get a basic college education. The Storrs family were longtime Landscape Architects in 1889. He also planned the campus
residents of Storrs, originating with Augustus Storrs who in of Penn State University.
1719 was one of the original founders of Storrs Village. The Lowrie made several trips to Storrs to study the campus
Storrs Agricultural School opened in 1881 with 13 students and consult with Beach, and in 1911 he produced a “Gener-
from area farming families. By 1897 the enrollment had al Plan for Conn. Agricultural College.” The plan, evolving
grown to only 50. from a long American campus-planning tradition, developed
Immediately rudimentary wood framed buildings in the what we now know as the “Historic Campus” and Great
shingle and Queen Anne styles were erected around the south Lawn. Extending south of the existing Duck Pond (Swan
shore of the existing Swan Lake (then called the Duck Pond). Lake) and defined by Storrs Road to the south and Mansfield
None of these earliest buildings survive. Development of the road to the east, the plan is composed of quadrangles north
early campus along Storrs Road (Rt. 195) continued through- of the lawn. The campus is framed by the existing Swan Lake
out the 19th century. Landscape gardener C.T. Barrett of and a new lake to the south, Mirror Lake. At the head of the
Staten Island, NY is said to have had contributed to plantings quadrangle, the highest point of the campus, Lowrie placed
on the early campus. the “library” (the Wilbur Cross Library that we know today).
With the college enrollment growing and a new, ambi- Behind the library is a dining hall (now housing the café and
tious president (Charles L. Beach) in place, a bold expansion Benton Museum), and flanking the library are two dormi-
program was initiated in 1906. President Beach had great tories (Koons Hall and Storrs Hall). As the campus extends
interest in the physical campus setting and evidently was not
comfortable with the haphazard growth of the institution, so

Swan Lake and early
buildings circa 1912.

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to the south it becomes less formal with buildings lining Old Main and classroom buildings circa 1890. Old Main was replaced by Beach
Mansfield Road. Clear in the plan, in the southwest corner, is Hall in 1929.
“Faculty Row” housing.
Lowrie’s plan was influenced by both the formalistic around the campus core, following the suggestions of the
tenants of Jefferson’s “Academic Village” and Frederick Law Lowrie plan. The area around Mirror Lake was planted with
Olmsted’s naturalistic compositions. The Jefferson influence 52 Dogwoods in 1953 as a result of the Horticulture Club’s
is clear in the use of the open quadrangles (as opposed to the “Plant a Dogwood Day.”
closed quadrangle used in Europe) to organize the placement It fell to New Britain architect Delbert Perry to design
of academic buildings. The Olmsted influence is apparent in most of the buildings that would fill in Lowrie’s plan. Perry
the meandering pathways, informal groupings of trees, the specialized in the design of educational buildings and he had
naturalistic lake, and sweeping lawns. Beaux Arts Classicism a prolific career, designing buildings throughout Connecticut.
can also be seen in Lowrie’s use of the formal axial quadrangle
with its central large building. There are also suggestions of continued next page
the “City on a Hill” metaphor which dates to Puritan times.
In his report that accompanied the plan, Lowrie states that
the library should be “on the highest ground where it would
be seen to its best advantage.”
President Beach’s establishment of a master plan proved
to be timely, if not prophetic, as the university soon entered a
period of rapid growth. From 1910 to 1945 the college grew
from 500 students to 3500, and by 1920 most of the build-
ings around the quadrangle were in place, with the library
following in 1935.
Mirror Lake was built in the early 1920s by students
under the direction of Horticulture Professor George Fraser.
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Iconic Landscapes cont’d

His UConn buildings are almost uni-
versally of the Gothic and Colonial
Revival styles. Wilbur Cross Library,
however, was not designed by Perry, but
by architect Frederick Dixon.
A “living document” is the euphe-
mism often bestowed on a master plan,
meaning that in reality they are often
not followed to any great degree. What
makes the Lowrie plan so astounding
is that it was followed to a remarkable
degree. Almost 120 years after the plan
was produced, today’s historic campus
is still largely in alignment.
Charles Lowrie’s 1910 “General
Plan for Conn. Agricultural College”
is a transcending work of landscape
architecture.
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New Urbanism and Storrs Center

BY AARON JOHNSON Cities, meanwhile, were forced to the complex relationships between
contend with an exploding number of social and urban spaces that were much
If present-day town planning could new suburban commuters. With fed- more evident at street level.
be distilled into one dominant eral funding from the Highways Act, Out of the growing number of
movement, it would probably be city governments around the country dissenters against Modernist planning
New Urbanism. A rejection of decades began to bulldoze entire neighborhoods came a number of advocates for
of post-World War II Modernist land to construct urban freeway connec- European- (or pre-WWII American)
development, the trend in some ways tions to outlying communities. This inspired city design. This group
followed in the footsteps of the more effort fit right into the philosophies of architects and planners were
general Modernist reactionary move- of Modernist city planners, such as Le particularly upset with the suburban
ment, Postmodernism. Corbusier and Ebenezer Howard who sprawl phenomenon that emerged
After the second World War, young “sought to design and plan cities which after WWII. In 1991, they wrote the
American soldiers returned home followed the logic of the new model of Ahwahnee Principles for sustainable
looking to put the ills of war behind industrial mass production, reverting urban planning practice and founded
them and start their families. The 1944 to large-scale solutions, aesthetic stan- the Congress for New Urbanism in
federal G.I. Bill provided them with dardization, and prefabricated design 1993. Their foundational text, the
low-cost mortgages, which fueled a solutions.” Charter for New Urbanism, begins:
massive new homebuilding cycle. Most The start of criticism of Mod- We advocate the restructuring of
of these new houses were constructed ernist planning came in 1960, when
outside the city limits, which led to New York City’s builder Robert Moses public policy and development
the mass adoption of the automobile got approval from the city’s planning practices to support the following
as the primary means of transportation commission to construct the Lower principles: neighborhoods should
for American households. President Manhattan Expressway, a proposed be diverse in use and population;
Eisenhower’s 1956 National Interstate 10-lane elevated highway. Jane Jacobs, communities should be designed
and Defense Highways Act created a journalist who lived in Greenwich for the pedestrian and transit as
a nationwide public works effort to Village (which lay in the project’s path well as the car; cities and towns
construct high-speed motorways to should be shaped by physically
connect major population centers. of destruction) defined and universally accessible
was able to orga- public spaces and community
nize her commu- institutions; urban places should
nity and make be framed by architecture and
the case against landscape design that celebrate
the expressway. local history, climate, ecology, and
Jacobs criticized building practice.
urban planners for Storrs Center is a contemporary
making decisions project inspired by the principles of
from a bird’s eye New Urbanism. The town center for
perspective, rather Mansfield, CT was completed in 2017
than considering through a public-private partnership
between developers Leyland Alliance
Above: Shared street space and collegiate real estate investment
in Seaside, FL. Right: trust, the Mansfield Downtown Part-
Suburbs of Phoenix, AZ. nership. Leyland Alliance’s principal
architect Louis G Marquet’s goal was to
create “a Main Street where a university
and a college town come together to
live, work, play, and learn.” The neigh-
borhood consists of 12 four- to five-
story mixed-use buildings with retail

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on the first floor and Initial design of neo-eclectic architectural style that
apartments above. The Storrs Center plagues housing developments and bud-
architecturally neo-eclec- (left) and get hotels from coast to coast. The Con-
tic buildings are arranged realization gress for New Urbanism does advocate
around several streets (below). local vernacular architecture, but devel-
and Betsy Paterson opers often overlook this key feature
Square, which is occa- create secondary increases in the rental that can make the difference between a
sionally programmed market. Storrs Center also suffers from lovable versus a forgettable place.
with events. There is also a moderate level of placelessness, largely Because Storrs Center actually
a large public parking due to its conformity to the ubiquitous functions as a central public space for
garage. Storrs Center the UConn and Mansfield communi-
is defined by its mix of ties, it manages to avoid arguably the
land uses, walkability, harshest critique of the New Urbanist
and centrally located public space. movement: that it functions as nothing
Storrs Center also bears some of the more than a repackaging of suburbia.
common criticisms of New Urbanism. In response to these qualms (just as
First is the issue of car dependency. New Urbanism reaches the main-
The Charter for New Urbanism does stream), some planners have proposed
not entirely rule out car usage: “com- new movements such as New Pedestri-
munities should be designed for the anism, Smart Growth, and many more.
pedestrian and transit as well as the car.” — Aaron Johnson will be a Junior in the
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ASLA Wants Emerging Professionals, But Do Emerging Professionals Want ASLA?

BY OLIVER GAFFNEY, ASLA Earlier this year, Connecticut ASLA began implementing
several changes aimed at removing barriers to participation
R ecent data compiled by ASLA reveals an alarming for younger landscape architects:
trend for the future of the Society. Student participa- • The chapter is sponsoring the annual membership dues
tion levels have declined 3% from 2018, and associate
membership is down by almost 15%. This trend has been for seven UConn students, and in turn, asking them to
ongoing for several years and has accelerated despite a robust contribute their perspective and energy towards improv-
job market for new graduates and entry-level positions. In ing our programs.
response, ASLA has pledged to redouble its efforts on recruit- • For Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., CTASLA spon-
ing emerging professionals by producing more content and sored a member of the UConn student chapter to join us
programs to attract their interest. in meeting with our congressional and senate delegations.
But lost in all of the hand-wringing and soul-searching • The Emerging Professionals group has continued to offer
appears to be the big picture of a larger generational shift. its free events and LARE review sessions, and has started
Younger landscape architects are almost 50% women, and to provide programming in Fairfield County and greater
over 30% are either Black, Latinx, or Asian. This diverse Hartford to make travel distances more equitable.
group of individuals is well aware of ASLA’s recruitment • The chapter began offering a high school scholarship
pitch, and they aren’t persuaded that their interests and for seniors interested in pursuing studies in landscape
values are represented. The American Institute of Architects, architecture and promoted it to several allied organiza-
the American Planning Association, the American Society tions with diverse participants, including ACE Mentor
of Civil Engineers, and other peer organizations are Program, Groundwork Bridgeport, and the Center for
experiencing similar declines. Latino Progress.
Using an ambiguous, anodyne term like “Emerging Later this year, the Emerging Professionals group will
Professionals” to identify this generation of practitioners is a gain two new leaders, Grant Losapio and Myles Simon.
symptom of a larger issue — failure to provide meaningful Both are 2016 graduates of the UConn program and have
opportunities for participation. The cost of membership is been dedicated participants in our EP events. It has been
disproportionately high for prospective student and associate my pleasure to serve as chair of the group for the past three
members who are burdened with student loans and limited years, but I’ll be turning 30 later this year and I’m ready to let
incomes. Events are usually an additional cost, and often held someone younger than me take the reins. I’m looking forward
in locations that are not accessible to individuals that do not to working with them as president and seeing how the next
have a car. When student and associate members do attend generation of CTASLA leadership can promote a more inclu-
chapter events, they are offered a passive role and not asked sive and meaningful chapter experience for young landscape
to contribute their knowledge or enthusiasm. Occasions for architects.
leadership development are limited.
With all of this in mind, is it any surprise that we’re — Oliver Gaffney, ASLA is president-elect of CTASLA and
having trouble convincing students and associate landscape chairman of the Emerging Professionals Group.
architects to join us? In order to do better, we must have a
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