The David Bird International Service Fellowship Fund

The Conway School of Landscape Design is now accepting contributions to the David Bird International Service Fellowship fund.

Friends and family of David Bird have established this endowment fund and set a goal of $100,000. The endowment will provide for an annual fellowship of $5,000 to support international public service work in furtherance of sustainable landscape planning and design. Depending on funding and partnership opportunities, a three- to six-month sojourn is projected for the first fellowship, which would ideally be launched in July 2009.  Find out how you can honor his memory.  And, download a brochure about this program.

Summer 2008 Programs announced

Three summer programs will be presented at Conway this July and August in conjunction with the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS).  Two of the presenters will be alumni David Evans and Cindy Tavernise; the third presenter will be Elizabeth Farnsworth, a biologist and scientific illustrator. She is co-author of the updated edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Ferns....more>>

Con'text 2007 now online

The Fall 2007 edition of Con'text, Conway's alumni magazine and annual report is now available online. In it, Jonathon Ellison '93 reports on his year in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. 

In Communities, Design, and What the Buddha Inspired: A Sri Lankan Perspective, Jonathon describes his work in the radically altered landscape of post-tsunami Sri Lanka, and explains why designers all over the world look to Sri Lanka for inspiring, place-based design. "It was within this landscape of loss and hope, humor and design, conflict and humanity, disaster and development that I came to understand my Conway School training within a global perspective." ... see color photos from Sri Lanka>>

New brochure now available for community planning services

For more than thirty-five years, communities, agencies and non-profit organizations have been turning to the Conway School for design and planning assistance.

We've got a new brochure that introduces this process in detail....download pdf brochure>> 

Landscape Architecture Magazine features CSLD in March '07 issue

Journalists Jane Roy Brown (left) and Bill Regan (right) have learned quite a bit about the Conway School of Landscape Design. For more than four months they shadowed the class of 2007, while also interviewing and photographing faculty, graduates, and school trustees and friends. They even served as residential project clients, working with student Priscilla Miner (center). The results of their efforts may be found in an insightful ten-page spread ("Ten Months, One Quantum Leap") in the March issue of the official magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects.  Download full article (pdf file, 4mb)>>

Alum Alma Hecht featured in Natural Home Magazine

For Alma Hecht—the owner of Second Nature Design, a San Francisco landscape company—site-appropriate gardening is a no-brainer. Hecht earned a Master of Arts degree from Conway.  See the article in Natural Home here>>

David Bird dies

Many of you may have known David Bird, our school's great friend and former board chair. Read his obituary in the Boston Globe and learn why he appreciated the significance and potential of CSLD.