Landscape Impressions: Synthesis,an exhibition featuring the work of first-year students in West Virginia University’s landscape architecture program, is on display on the first floor of the Agricultural Sciences Building, Evansdale Campus, through Sunday, April 23.

Claudia Bernasconi, visiting assistant professor of landscape architecture, organized the exhibition to feature the work of students in her landscape architecture graphics course.

The main goal of the course is to increase the students’observational skills and their ability to perceive, analyze and representthrough a synthesisthe natural and built environment,Bernasconi explained.

Works included in the exhibit will illustrate students’ability to apply these concepts in two-dimensional media.

Bernasconi has worked as a consulting architect with WVU ’s National Research Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions.

She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from the University of Roma Tre in Rome . She completed a post-professional master’s of design degree at the University of La Sapienza, Rome.

She has worked as a scenic and graphic designer for the Teatro delle Apparizioni and as a designer for the Italian Trade Commission Institute, both in Rome.