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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:

Architecture May 14, 2021

The Business of Architecture

Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm

Kathy Denise Dixon, Timothy A. Kephart, and Karl L. Moody

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm (Routledge, 2017) is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect. Written by successful …
Architecture May 7, 2021

Parks and Recreation System Planning

A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities

David Barth

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green …
Landscape Architecture May 4, 2021

Teaching Landscape

The Studio Experience

Karsten Jørgensen et al.

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience (Routledge, 2019) gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios. This is the companion volume …
Architecture April 5, 2021

The Bird-Friendly City

Creating Safe Urban Habitats

Timothy Beatley

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary …
Landscape Architecture September 8, 2020

Primer of Ecological Restoration

Karen Holl

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire …
Landscape Architecture September 1, 2020

Motor City Green

A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit

Joseph S. Cialdella

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the …
Landscape Architecture August 25, 2020

DIY City

The Collective Power of Small Actions

Hank Dittmar

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
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 Washington, DC. But these grand …
Architecture July 22, 2020

Be Seated

Laurie Olin

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
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 revolves around two poles: the …
Architecture July 17, 2020

Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value

R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety …
Architecture July 16, 2020

River Cities, City Rivers

Thaisa Way

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can …
Landscape Architecture July 15, 2020

France Sketchbook

Laurie Olin

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has …
Architecture July 10, 2020

Integrated Management

How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business

Robert Sroufe

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decades. Sustainability continues to be, at …
Architecture June 5, 2020

Active Landscape Photography

Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture

Anne Godfrey

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks …
Architecture June 3, 2020

Unexpected Affinities

The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp

Pablo Meninato

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects …
Architecture June 1, 2020

Reciprocal Landscapes

Stories of Material Movements

Jane Hutton

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces …
Architecture May 12, 2020

The Power of Existing Buildings

Save Money, Improve Health, and Reduce Environmental Impacts

Robert Sroufe, Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each …
Architecture April 29, 2020

Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities

Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class

Patrick M. Condon

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
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 atmosphere, we will run …
Architecture April 21, 2020

Farmscape

The Design of Productive Landscapes

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren's book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical …
Architecture April 16, 2020

Planting Design

Connecting People and Place

Patrick Mooney

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants …
Architecture April 14, 2020

Computer Architectures

Constructing the Common Ground

Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi's book Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2019) paints the landscape that brought computing into the …
Architecture April 8, 2020

Designing the Megaregion

Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale

Jonathan Barnett

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
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 are expanding …
Architecture March 18, 2020

Lost in the Transit Desert

Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form

Diane Jones Allen

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are …
Architecture March 9, 2020

GGN

Landscapes 1999 to 2018

Thaïsa Way

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol, and Kathryn Gustafson, and it is world-renowned …
Architecture March 5, 2020

Heirloom Houses

The Architecture of Wade Weissmann

Steven Stolman

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
In Heirloom Houses : the Architecture of Wade Weissmann (Gibbs Smith, 2018), Steven Stolman explains how the houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his firm tell the stories of the …