2016 André Schwabenbauer Scholarships Awarded to Landscape Architecture Students
Congratulations to landscape architecture students Julia Taucer in the Master of landscape architecture program; and Andrea Graham in the Bachelor of landscape architecture program who are the recipients of the André Schwabenbauer award for 2016.
University of Guelph students Julia Taucer, MLA Candidate (left), and Andrea Graham, BLA Candidate (middle), were presented the 2016 André Schwabenbauer Scholarships by LACF Board Member, Cecelia Paine, FCSLA, OALA, (right) at a school event held on December 8.
Julia Taucer joined the University of Guelph’s MLA program after completing a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (High Distinction) at Carleton University. With an interest in community engagement, she has participated in design research on informal peripheral settlements in Buenos Aires and volunteered as a children’s art instructor at the Ottawa School of Art, among many other activities. Julia has gained professional experience through work with Lashley and Associates, the National Capital Commission, Shift Landscape Architecture and the University of Guelph’s Centre for Canadian Landscape Architecture Archives. Her MLA thesis research is on flexible design for urban public space.
Andrea Graham is an enthusiastic hardworking student from Toronto in her final year of the bachelor of landscape architecture at the University of Guelph. Andrea has been an active member in the Guelph Community and involved Society for Ecological Restoration and the University Chamber Choir. She is interested in environmental rehabilitation and ecological planning in coastal zones with a career goal of working within Canada’s coastal environments to protect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems from shore development. Andrea was an exchange student studying abroad at the National University of Singapore in the Winter 2016 semester and this past summer worked as a student intern at Johnson Sustronk Weinstein and Associates.
The LACF André Schwabenbauer Scholarship was created under the auspices of the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF) in memory of the late André Schwabenbauer, a past president of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. This annual $1,000 scholarship award is aimed at recognizing and promoting excellence in design by a student who has done distinguished work in the final year of an accredited undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture program at a Canadian university.