Welcome!

Welcome to the Summer 2012 Auburn's Master of Landscape Architecture, Urban Studio. This blog will serve as a place to document and share the work of the studio as well as to interact and engage with the students, instructors, local professionals and and anyone who would like to follow along with the studio. We are excited about getting started and eager to jump into this semester's studio work.

This semester the students will be spending five weeks in Birmingham, living, working and learning about the city while working on a specific design project. This years project will be "The Cut". A four block, existing linear cut in in Downtown Birmingham that once provided rail road access into Downtown. The students will have five weeks to prepare and assemble their vision for how the cut could be designed to serve as a pedestrian connection through an urban environment. The students are providing their ideas and vision to the conversation. A project and conversation that many local professionals have engaged in, along with its current documentation in the Red Rock Ridge & Valley Trail System.

As the weeks progress it is our intent to use this blog as a means of recording the design process and documenting the students' work as we go. The students will be primarily working on their designs for the cut in the studio, but will also be tasked with additional design assignments that will help them through the process and relate to their work.

We are thrilled and excited to get started and look forward to a great semester.

Ben Wieseman