Photo credit: Graham Taylor, LABash08

More than 800 students from universities across North America explored Frontiers of Landscape Architecture at the LABash08 conference hosted by the University of Guelph, February 21 to 24. The annual conference, initiated by three U of G students in 1970, continues to be entirely student-run; 2008 marks its fifth return to its roots in OAC’s Landscape Architecture program.

LABash has grown to become an international gathering for landscape architecture students, faculty and professionals to learn from, and about, one another. This year’s lectures and workshops explored different frontiers of the profession, technologies and the environment, with topics ranging from re-greening cities, green roof design and making the most of garbage, to designing the landscape of Nunavut, and a Google Earth walk through North America.

FACE >forward | MAY 2008