Clemson faculty members earn second award for Luxor, Egypt, master plan

Published: July 12, 2011

CLEMSON — The American Society for Landscape Architecture has awarded two Clemson faculty members the prestigious Tri-State Award for outstanding landscape architecture in analysis and planning for their work in Egypt.

Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt have led their planning and landscape architecture students to Egypt each spring since 2006 to collaborate with architecture students from Ain Shams University. The two groups of students and their professors have tackled development challenges around some of the world’s most important historic sites, such as the Pyramids of Giza and the Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor.

This year’s project is in the city of Esna in the south of Egypt.

Over the years, the studio has established an international cross-cultural partnership between students at Clemson and Ain Shams as they work on service-learning projects to provide design solutions for urban sprawl.

This award is the second to recognize Hewitt and Nassar for their work in Egypt this year. They also received the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching in March.  

The Tri-State Award is given once every three years by a committee representing North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia architects.

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