Landscape Architecture Graduate Receives Award

Christie Murman Schneider has been chosen to receive the 2010 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) King Medal from Kansas State University.

Schneider’s master’s project and report, “River North Greenway: Strategizing a Generation 4 Greenway as a Dynamic Mosaic,” presents a research framework and design response intended to propel the evolution of greenway design toward the next generation. Her work proposed a new framework for the planning and design of greenways and demonstrates its application to the River North Greenway in Denver, Colorado.

A native of Glenvil, Nebraska, Schneider received her Master of Landscape Architecture in May 2010. The five-credit-hour master’s project and report in the landscape architecture program is a year-long, independent, in-depth study expressive of the student’s cumulative learning experience and demonstrating application of scholarly methods. Schneider’s supervisory committee was composed of Professors Melanie Klein, Blake Belanger and Stephanie Rolley, all faculty in the K-State landscape architecture program.

Schneider’s report is published in the K-State Research Exchange at http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4101

One King Medal is given annually by each ARCC member school. Faculty in the four disciplines that comprise the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University nominated one student from each discipline based on criteria that acknowledged the innovation, integrity, and scholarship in architectural and/or environmental design research. A jury composed of K-State faculty James Guikema, Associate Vice President for Research ; Jeffrey Katz, Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration; and Denis Medieros, Associate Dean of the College of Human Ecology, selected Schneider to receive the K-State award.

The jury cited Schneider’s project because of its meticulous scholarship, complex literature map, exhaustive design, detailed organization, and overall “wow” factor.

Other student nominees were Joshua Winter, architecture, Westbrook, MN, for his master’s report, “Effects of the Built Environment on Mobility for Dual-Sensory Impaired Persons;” Samantha Lang, interior architecture and product design, Manchester, MO, for her master’s report, “emPowering The Future:  Energy Education and Reform;” and Amy Dvorak, regional and community planning, Baileyville, KS, for her master’s report, “Health with Planning:  A Manual for Promoting Active, Healthy Living Through Community Planning.” Each is a May 2010 master’s degree recipient in his/her respective discipline.

The Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. (ARCC) is a non-profit international association of architectural research centers committed to the expansion of the research culture and a supporting infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines. The medal is named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the ARCC.

For more information, contact:
Wendy Ornelas, FAIA, 785.532.5950
CAPD@ksu.edu 785.532.1090