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About Tricia Keffer
Tricia Keffer has a BA in Psychology and an MLA in Landscape Architecture. The arc of her career path took her from beach portraits in Destin, FL to the parks in Paris, France. Her photography has been published in Delta Sky Magazine, BAE Defense Contractor Calendar, and two ADDY (Advertising) awards for Dale E. Peterson brochures. Her vacation portrait concept was featured on Good Morning America. She is working on her next adventure with her landscape design business Plants People Love Designs in Florida. In her spare time during the pandemic, she picked up an additional degree BA in Art and a certificate from Master Artist David Chang’s Portrait and Figurative Studio at FIU.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tricia:
May 14, 2021
The Business of Architecture
The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm (Routledge, 2017) is the essential guide to understanding the critical funda…
May 7, 2021
Parks and Recreation System Planning
Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spac…
May 4, 2021
Teaching Landscape
Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience (Routledge, 2019) gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice exa…
April 5, 2021
The Bird-Friendly City
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has …
September 8, 2020
Primer of Ecological Restoration
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes…
September 1, 2020
Motor City Green
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of …
August 25, 2020
DIY City
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washin…
July 22, 2020
Be Seated
Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revol…
July 17, 2020
Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach to…
July 16, 2020
River Cities, City Rivers
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built al…
July 15, 2020
France Sketchbook
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of Am…
July 10, 2020
Integrated Management
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and th…
June 5, 2020
Active Landscape Photography
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essay…
June 3, 2020
Unexpected Affinities
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role i…
June 1, 2020
Reciprocal Landscapes
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are in…
May 12, 2020
The Power of Existing Buildings
Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the car…
April 29, 2020
Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosph…
April 21, 2020
Farmscape
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren's book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, usin…
April 16, 2020
Planting Design
Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range…
April 14, 2020
Computer Architectures
Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi's book Computer Architectures: Constructi…
April 8, 2020
Designing the Megaregion
The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs…
March 18, 2020
Lost in the Transit Desert
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit …
March 9, 2020
GGN
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nic…
March 5, 2020
Heirloom Houses
In Heirloom Houses : the Architecture of Wade Weissmann (Gibbs Smith, 2018), Steven Stolman explains how the houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his…