Thursday, April 2, 2009

Cameron Ringness Named a Steamboat Foundation Scholar

In 2008, the Steamboat Foundation initiated a partnership with Reed Hilderbrand Associates and UVa’s School of Architecture that will give one Steamboat Scholar, selected from the junior class at UVa, the opportunity to intern at Reed Hilderbrand.

Third year architecture student Cameron Ringness is the first student selected for this honor. For the Steamboat internship, Reed Hilderbrand will conduct a specialized research project that examines urban tree plantations in the context of increasingly typical goals for extending tree canopy cover to reduce the heat island effect in dense urban neighborhoods.

Led by Principals Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand, the firm has produced a legacy of thoughtfully conceived, durably built, and sustainable works across the United States that demonstrate the capacity of the landscape as one of the most potent instruments of contemporary cultural expression. With 23 landscape architecture professionals who also possess backgrounds in planning, architecture, the arts, sciences and humanities, and graphic design, the firm promotes an open studio culture that fosters a creative design life and a mutually supportive atmosphere.

Ringness will have ongoing assignments in support of project teams in the firm’s office and will present her own design research project to the office as the internship draws to a conclusion.

For more information, please see:

Steamboat Scholar Program at UVa