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Bringing New Life to Paper Streets 

Christine Klocke

Designlife magazine cover 2025

Jun 10, 2025

Spring 2025 Designlife Magazine

The spring issue of Designlife magazine is here! Explore this issue for stories on the magazine’s new look and feel, the incredible work done by faculty, students and alumni and…
Leaders Council New Members 2025

Jun 3, 2025

Meet the newest members of the College of Design Leaders Council for 2025

The College of Design is excited to welcome six new members to its Leaders Council. Established in 2010, the Leaders Council of the NC State College of Design is a select group of alumni and friends in design-related professions across the country.
House in a Garden, project by Mud and Atelier Architects.

May 14, 2025

House In A Garden project featured on America ByDesign

Benjamin Monette, assistant professor of practice in landscape architecture and founder of Mud, Landscape Architects, talks about his award-winning project, House In A Garden, as part of CBS's America ByDesign. Alongside Atelier Mey Architects, Minimal Impact Engineering and Littoral Urbanism Lab, he talks about the project's net-zero carbon landscape surrounding the first mass-timber building in Miami-Dade County.
Spring 2025 MLA Graduates

May 9, 2025

Congratulations, MLA Graduates!

The College of Design is proud to celebrate the Master’s of Landscape Architecture graduates for spring 2025.
The Seeds of the Landscape cover image

Apr 10, 2025

Spring 2025 Faculty Exhibition

In spring 2025, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning shared an exhibition centered on faculty work titled "The SEEDS of the LANDSCAPE...The ROOTS of the TREES..." This exhibition celebrates the outstanding work of the faculty, showcasing their teaching, scholarship, and professional practice in landscape architecture. Each faculty member dedicates their expertise in the field and offers teaching and learning opportunities in the Master of Landscape Architecture program, providing students with extraordinary academic and lifelong experiences.
ASLA The Dirt Climate Biodiversity Task Force

Feb 19, 2025

Landscape Architects Form Task Force to Scale Up Solutions to the Climate and Biodiversity Crises

Led by leaders in the field of landscape architecture, ASLA is developing an updated, profession-wide Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan. The new plan will be an update to the ASLA Climate Action Plan, which was released in 2022, and offer new goals and actions for 2026-2030. The scope of the new plan has been expanded – the climate and biodiversity crises will be treated as equal priorities, and the focus will be on actions that tackle both crises in an equitable way.

Feb 17, 2025

College of Design Signs MOU with National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 

The College of Design at NC State University has signed an MOU with the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México (UNAM) to promote academic and research activities between the two institutions and further affirm the value of international collaboration. Collaborations with UNAM will allow the college to extend its involvement in global issues related to urbanization and the environment and translate that knowledge into teaching and practice through the lens of a global framework. 
Goldsboro Community Floodprint

Oct 24, 2024

Work underway on Goldsboro flood mitigation and resilience project: three projects aim to protect property and increase flood resilience

A partnership between the state and City of Goldsboro has resulted in the completion of the Goldsboro Community Floodprint, and the initial implementation of the plan’s recommendations. The floodprint is a local plan that contains flood mitigation and resilience recommendations developed through public input and planning. Funded by the N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) using the state’s HUD mitigation grant and led by the N.C. State University Coastal Dynamics Design Lab (CDDL), this is the second of ten CDDL/NCORR community floodprints to be completed.
Student ASLA award winning project long marsh forward

Sep 17, 2024

Landscape Architecture Students Win National Awards for Fourth Year in a Row

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental planning is thrilled to share that student teams won national ASLA awards for the fourth year in a row. Since 2020, student teams in the Master of Landscape Architecture program have won 12 awards nationally.
Samantha Krumbhaar's Paper Streets Projects utilizes tunnels made from natural materials to reference Hayti culture.

Aug 20, 2024

Bringing New Life to Paper Streets 

The City of Durham has over 600 “paper streets” – narrow strips of land planned for use as a street, but never built. College of Design students partnered with the city’s Office of Performance and Innovation to bring new life to these previously underutilized spaces, envisioning micro-parks, art installations, educational outdoor spaces, and valuable pedestrian corridors.