Date of Award:

5-2014

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

Department:

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Committee Chair(s)

Michael L. Timmons

Committee

Michael L. Timmons

Committee

Sean E. Michael

Committee

Bradford R. Cole

Abstract

Though magazines, books, and slideshows have attempted to share glimpses of landscape architecture, its fixed geographic location inherently limits who can experience it. In a move to address this dilemma, Design Workshop has partnered with Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library Special Collections and the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department to capture the firm's definitive works. The creation of the Design Workshop Archives and Digital Collection conveys the firm's story, sharing it with a broad and diverse audience through the use of physical archives, a digitally accessible partner, oral histories, and online learning objects to be utilized in the classroom. In a move to preserve the quality and history of this work, best practices for archive development have been reviewed and utilized in the creation of the physical and digital archives. Evaluation of the archives and best practices has enlightened the requirement for an altered approach to archive accessioning to support the digital collection and the enormity of project material. Documentation of the pilot year of archive creation has emphasized the discovery process for sorting, processing, and presentation of four apogee projects.

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