Fall 2004

 

Maruja Torres-Antonini, assistant professor, interior design

 

158 College of Design

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-3092

 

Initiated in mid-2004 by Professor Torres, this ongoing project addressed development of a house museum at the historic Ringland-Smeltzer House in Fort Dodge. The project has involved faculty and students from several disciplines within the College of Design to address museum development and historic preservation, and collaboration with Greenlee School of Journalism faculty and students toward creation of a marketing communications plan. Additional faculty involved have included Çigdem Akkurt, interior design; Tim Borich, community and regional planning; Lisa Fontaine, graphic design; and Arvid Osterberg, architecture. Peter Butler, landscape architecture, will begin a new project for landscaping the grounds and historic district in fall 2006.

 

 

 

Fall 2004

 

Christopher Seeger, ISU Extension landscape architect and assistant professor

 

Research Assistant:

 

146 College of Design

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-3094

 

Under Seeger's direction, Grala developed a planting design for the front of the Greene County Extension building in Jefferson.

 

 

Fall 2004/Spring 2005

 

Christopher Seeger, ISU Extension landscape architect and assistant professor

 

146 College of Design

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-3094

 

This project involved a site visit and brief presentation of recommendations for what to do with concrete pillars along the main entrance and to consider developing a master plan for the Greene County Fairgrounds in Jefferson. 

 

 

 

Fall 2004

 

Lois Warme, ISU Extension specialist and associate professor, interior design

M. Susan Erickson, PLaCE program coordinator

Norm Riggs, ISU Extension community development specialist 

 

ISU Extension Design

126 College of Design

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-3091

 

Warme and Erickson organized two "charrettes," or intensive design exploration and planning sessions, for stakeholders from Red Oak to receive input from various Iowa State University experts in charting the direction for a major development project at the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company building. Riggs faciliated both sessions, which were held at Iowa State. Other faculty and staff involved in the charrettes included Dan Henroid, food service and lodging management; Chris Cook, human development and family studies; Mark Engelbrecht, dean of the College of Design; Arvid Osterberg, architecture and gerontology; Tim Borich, community and regional planning and Institute for Design Research and Outreach; Maruja Torres, interior design; Pam Iasevoli, interior design; Tanya Zanish-Belcher, ISU Library archive and research; and Lynette Pohlman, University Museums.

 

 

 

Summer 2004

 

Christopher Seeger, ISU Extension landscape architect and assistant professor

 

Katarzyna "Kate" Grala

 

146 College of Design

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-3094

 

Seeger worked with graduate assistant Grala to develop a master plan for the Worth County Fairgrounds in Northwood that included a demonstration garden, walking trails, entrance gate and arboretum. Four design plan options were developed and presented as three-dimensional computer drawings in the final plan.