MIDCOAST MAINE TEAMS
Northeastern University - College of Art Media and Design
Michelle Laboy + Sara Jensen Carr
Students:
Michelle Laboy
Associate Professor of Architecture, affiliate appointments in Civil & Environmental Engineering and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs with affiliate appointments in Civil & Environmental Engineering and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Trained in architecture, engineering and urban planning, she works to advance transdisciplinary methods in design that build resilience and sustainability across scales. Her scholarship examines the influence of socio-ecological thinking in critical design practices and conceptualizes the processes by which buildings are situated in ecologically regenerative and socially just environments. This includes exploring the technical and cultural potential of design that engages material circularity and the persistence of place, towards grounding long lasting buildings in more resilient urban landscapes. Michelle has twice been the recipient of the biennial Latrobe Prize, in 2017 and 2022, awarded by the AIA College of Fellows to advance research with potential to transform architectural practice.
Michelle co-founded FieLDworkshop, a research-based design practice in Boston dedicated to regenerating cultural and ecological space in cities. Prior to that, she practiced for 12 years in design firms in San Juan, Barcelona, Detroit, and Boston. Her work ranges in scale from small interactive objects in public space to urban design, including many published and award-winning commercial, educational and residential buildings. She is a licensed engineer (PR), holds NCCES and NCARB records, and a certification from Cal-OES as a Safety Assessment Program Evaluator.
Michelle Laboy’s design research received funding from Northeastern University, AutoDesk, the Boston Groundwater Trust, AIA, NSF, DHS, and DOE ARPA-E. She co-authored the book The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use. Her scholarship has been published in book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, including the Journal of Architectural Education, Enquiry Journal, The Plan Journal, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the Journal of Architecture, Structures, and Construction, and other; as well as in proceedings for many national and international conferences.
Sara Jensen Carr, PhD, ASLA
Associate Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University,
Where she holds affiliate appointments at the Global Resilience Institute and Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research. She is a nationally-recognized scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of health, built environment, and the climate crisis. Her book, The Topography of Wellness, was the recipient of multiple awards and received national coverage in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Curbed, and The New Republic, among others. She has also published in a number of outlets
University of Maine Augusta, Architecture Program
Patrick Hansford
Students:
Patrick Hansford
Assistant Professor, Architecture
Patrick Hansford is an architect, planner, and educator. Originally from Troy, Ohio, he graduated from Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in architectural and environmental design technology. Mr. Hansford completed his formal architectural education at Miami University obtaining his Master of Architecture.
Mr. Hansford began his career working for several award-winning firms as a project designer. Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Hansford was a designer and the senior project architect for Woolpert, an internationally contracted engineering/architecture firm based in Dayton, Ohio. Since 1994, Hansford has practiced through his own firm, Patrick Hansford Associates. The firm’s mission was to provide contextual design solutions for the unique environment of the American small town.
With over thirty years of professional practice, his project experience includes governmental, commercial, industrial, residential, and historic preservation projects.
Mr. Hansford is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and currently is licensed to practice architecture in Maine, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Samantha Solano
Students:
Samantha Solano
Samantha Solano is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches graduate and undergraduate studios and advanced representation courses. She is the founding principal of JUXTOPOS, a co-founder of the Visualizing Equity in Landscape Architecture (VELA) project, and a co-collaborator of the International Landscape Collaborative (ILC). Samantha is a licensed Landscape Architect in the state of Utah.
Samantha’s scholarship engages with revealing unrepresented narratives overlooked throughout landscape architecture discourse. Her work interrogates two main streams—arid territories and the social, political, and cultural values that have led to the mismanagement of desert lands, and the empowerment of design, environmental, and racial justice narratives in practice, the profession, and the academy. Her research and design methodologies are centered on using critical mapping as a means of revealing unrecognized, unformalized, and unrepresented relationships hidden throughout the landscape.
Samantha’s research has been published in Representing Landscape: Analogue, From the South: Global Perspectives on Landscape and Territory, and T-Squared: Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design (forthcoming). Currently she is a co-editor of the ILC’s 2nd research volume focusing on territorial landscape approaches deployed throughout Northern and Arctic territories.
Samantha previously held faculty appointments at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She holds the Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture from UNLV.
University of Virginia Architecture School,
Department of Landscape Architecture
C.L. Bohannon + Michael Luegering
Students:
C.L. Bohannon PhD,
C.L. Bohannon PhD, ASLA, C.L. Bohannon PhD, ASLA, is an Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department and the Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (AD JEDI). Bohannon is a nationally recognized scholar and educator in the areas of community-engaged design and pedagogy, social and environmental justice, and African American landscapes, especially in the American South.
Prior to joining UVA in 2022, Bohannon was an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Interim Director in the School of Architecture + Design, housed in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He was also Director of the Community Engagement Lab and a faculty principal since 2018 at the Leadership and Social Change Residential College at Virginia Tech, living and working alongside students.
Bohannon’s research and pedagogy are closely connected and examine the asymmetrical power relationships and systems that produce social and environmental inequities in marginalized communities, or he describes it, “the uneven geographies” that result in, among others, health disparities, gentrification, forced migration and displacement. During his 18 years of teaching experience, he has introduced design students to these inequities and developed a pedagogy and praxis for redress through the interdisciplinary study of community. This approach, defined as “R3” — “Real People, Real Problems, Real Projects,” incorporates deep learning through, in part, methods of community mapping and storytelling that build leadership skills for effective service and citizenship.
Michael Luegering
Michael Luegering is an active practitioner, researcher and educator. Michael’s design perspective is framed by his study of landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning, as well as his extensive research in the vernacular of the American pasture and his Kentucky upbringing. He received a Bachelor of Urban Planning from the University of Cincinnati. He earned a Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture for his thesis Vernacular Pasture Lands | The Rural Design Almanac.
Michael is a founder and Design Principal at LVF Landscape Architects, where he works to develop a wide array of projects from civic plazas to nature-based infrastructure. He is a licensed Landscape Architect in the State of New York and Virginia.
As the Co-Director of the Natural Infrastructure Lab, Michael works on primary research and development with several federal and state agencies. Michael is the Primary Investigator for the ongoing 3 year, $3.25M Urban Planning With Integrated Natural Systems(UPWINS) project with the United States Army Corps of Engineers Engineering with Nature Program. The project also works with the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service to perform field-scale trials for plant adaptation at the Morven Sustainability Lab. More information on the project can be found on UVA Today, the UVA Architecture School News Feed, and the Natural Infrastructure Lab Website.
Michael teaches across the core program, from Studio to Ecology and Technology to Media. His current teaching includes a research studio participating in the Envision Resilience Challenge. This year's studio focuses on Civic Infrastructure for the Back Cove region of Portland, Maine. Coverage of this work, and testimonials from prior students in the studio can be found in Cavalier Daily.
Prior to joining the faculty at UVA, he practiced at MVVA and taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the area of landscape architecture media and visualization, and has contributed to Penn Praxis work on Resilient by Design. His past work at Penn includes working on the 2020 ASLA award-winning coastal resiliency mapping project, "Fantasy Island: The Galapagos Archipelago". Michael was awarded the 2017 G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award for Non Standing Faculty in The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Maine College of Art and Design
Addy Smith-Reiman
Students:
Addy Smith-Reiman
For over 20 years, Addy Smith-Reiman has successfully engaged people with projects that celebrate local identity, shared histories and future use. She integrates research, design, civic engagement and long-term stewardship planning for successful projects that activate PLACE: from forming a non-profit to transform an abandoned 1860’s opera house into a vibrant cultural center in northern Vermont; securing a $15.5 Million TIGER V discretionary grant to link transit hubs to historic sites with improved pedestrian and bicycling corridors throughout downtown Boston; managing complex trail and infrastructure projects connecting neighborhoods to the parks and open spaces along the three rivers in Pittsburgh, PA; and as Executive Director of the Portland Society for Architecture, a non-profit organization that promotes innovation and vision in design and planning. Until recently, she managed research-led public-private sector partnerships with the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT, and has joined the team as a planner with North Star Planning, where she will work on master planning, ordinance development and zoning, community revitalization, land use analysis, natural resource planning, and development review.
She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and Master’s Degrees in Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from Cornell University, where she was awarded the ASLA Certificate of Honor and was named the University Olmsted Scholar. She is a certified planner, accredited organic land care professional, and Master Gardener.
She lives in Portland, ME with her husband, Josh, a faculty member of the Maine College of Art and Design, their son, Ole, and their dog, Otto.