Measuring Landscape Performance: LAF's 2025 CSI Program - Part 1

The Landscape Architecture Foundation's Case Study Investigation (CSI) program supports faculty-student research teams who work with designers to assess and document the performance of exemplary landscape projects as Case Study Briefs. In this first of two webinars, three teams from the 2025 CSI program present the projects they evaluated.

For each built landscape, a representative from the design firm will share background information about the project and design, followed by the CSI academic team presenting their research process and most compelling findings from their efforts to quantify the environmental, social, and economic benefits.

Presenters and Projects

Grand Junction, Westfield, IN
CSI Research Fellow: Yiwei Huang, PhD, Purdue University
Student Research Assistant: Serine Kao
Firm representative: Lindsey Tabor, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective

Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Atlanta, GA
CSI Research Fellow: Alfie Vick, PLA, University of Georgia
Student Research Assistant: Jabari A.S. Lottie
Firm representatives: Jose Almiñana and Abigail Long, Andropogon

Town Branch Commons, Lexington, KY
CSI Research Fellow: Jordan Phemister, University of Kentucky
Student Research Assistant: Mitchell Kubera
Firm representative: Erin Masterson, Gresham Smith