Andrea Mantin (MLA ’09) was awarded the Andre Schwabenbauer Award, 2008-09 by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.

About the Andre Schwabenbauer Award
The Andre Schwabenbauer Endowment Fund was established under the auspices of the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation in honour of a distinguished landscape architect and former CSLA president.  The fund is dedicated towards recognizing and encouraging excellence in design in the field of landscape architecture.  Proceeds from the fund are used to provide a scholarship to a student in an accredited first professional degree Landscape Architecture program in Canada.

About Andrea Mantin (MLA ’09)
Andrea Mantin (MLA ’09) received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Concordia University with a Major in Art History and a second BFA with a Major in Sculpture from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Prior to studying landscape architecture at the University of Toronto, Andrea worked as a visual artist and designer in Canada and the United States working with firms like Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Deborah Berke and Partners Architects, and Balmori Associates Landscape Architects. Andrea served as project coordinator for the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, developed a series of wall coverings for the James Hotel in Chicago, and is currently involved in the creation of new habitats at the Toronto Zoo. Andrea’s work has been published in Metropolis Magazine, Interior Design Magazine and the New York Times.
Andrea came to study landscape architecture with a long standing interest in the way that people interact with their surroundings. Her curiosity in the field was sparked by a childhood spent between the New Brunswick Museum and the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Andrea’s perception of those environments fluctuated between the constructed reality of the museum’s diorama and the natural world she found at the coast. Andrea went on to study conceptual art and mined her childhood environments for inspiration. These explorations continue to inspire and direct her as she begins a career as a landscape architect.