Six and a half decades after its start, the University program founded by an ambitious New Yorker has blossomed into one of the nation’s premier landscape architecture schools.
“DesignIntelligence,” the ranks spawn from surveying landscape architecture hiring organizations that report schools that are best preparing students for their professional future.
“We’re proud of what we do,” said Van Cox, interim director of the University’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture.
Reich, who lent his name to the school and was known to students and faculty as “Doc,” came to the University in 1941 to teach. But by 1946 he founded what is still Louisiana’s only school for landscape architecture, Cox said.
“He was a remarkable man,” Cox said. “He lived and breathed landscape essence.”
 
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