From left: Sam Cashio, Emily Cashio, and Chris Cashio. The quintessential LSU College of Art & Design family, the Cashios span multiple generations and careers in several disciplines.
and the electives were similar. It felt natural,” Sam recalled. Sam also recounted spending time at his father’s firm, where he first met Max Conrad. “I remember playing with a box of ink stamps, and he was like ‘why don’t you put some trees here?’ I was in the third grade, and he was critiquing me already,” Sam laughed. “Coming to the landscape architecture program felt like old family.” Sam participated in Conrad’s legendary East Coast/West Coast field trips and was among the first group of students to visit Tokyo. Since graduation, he has worked at McDougal-Steele in Houston and Clean Cut Austin, one of the largest landscape/contractor groups in Texas at the time. “I gravitated toward the project
management side of the business,” Sam shared. “It was a good blend for me. I like to be in the field, seeing things being built.” He returned to Baton Rouge in the mid-1990s and has focused more on industrial and petrochemical construction with his background in civil and structural engineering, “all the building blocks I learned in landscape architecture and construction management.”
“Coming to the landscape architecture program felt like old family.” 13