The Conway School extends a warm welcome to Alex B. Morse, Mayor of the City of Holyoke, as the commencement speaker for the school’s 47th commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 22, 2019. Before his fellow classmates had begun preparing for […]
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At the heart of our teaching—since the beginning of the school—are real projects carried out by our students for real clients. In the spring term, teams of students complete community-scale master planning projects, such as a streetscape design, a park […]
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Please join us for a special book launch event to celebrate the publication of Cultivating the Designer’s Mind: Process and Principles for Coherent Landscape Design by Walter Cudnohufsky with Mollie Babize. “A landscape designer needs to develop a disciplined and […]
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In the winter term, teams of two to three students work on plans for large tracts of land, neighborhoods, towns, cities, or regions. Student projects reflect the real needs of their clients in the context of a changing environment, as well as […]
Read full storyLaura Marx has joined Conway’s faculty for the winter term. She will teach an ecology class each week, will lead a field work session, and will spend time in the studio to consult with students on their winter term community-scale team projects. […]
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by Ken Byrne The following essay was first published in the 2004 issue of con’text magazine. The first question asked of students on the [orientation] trip, even before the on-the-fly analysis of rotary and roundabout design, is “What do we not need to consider […]
Read full storyIn the fall term, each student is assigned an individual project selected from property owners in nearby communities who have contacted the school requesting site design and planning services. Although the focus is on a small area, the projects are never […]
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Conway alums consider climate resiliency On a sunny autumn day in New Haven, Kate Cholakis ’11 (Conway faculty) and Alison Maurer ’18 staffed Conway’s table at the Society for Ecological Restoration New England Chapter’s conference entitled “Connecting Communities and Ecosystems […]
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Conway hosted a design charrette* in our new space on Thursday, September 6, organized by the Western Mass chapter of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (WMBSLA). Nearly forty attendees (including WMBSLA members, local landscape architects and designers, and students […]
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Did you know that Saturday, September 29, 2018, was officially “The Conway School’s Opening Day in the City of Northampton”? So declared David Narkewicz in a Mayor’s Proclamation that he read before cutting the “ribbon” (surveyor’s tape) at the entrance […]
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