Landscape Architecture

Culminating course looking at large scale earthwork and construction methods that integrates the principles of water and land into the foundation studio, with an emphasis in landscape infrastructure, coastal, living systems, and management. The course may have an embedded travel. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in LAR 7020 Studio or taken LAR 7210 or Instructor Permission.

Topical offerings in landscape architecture.

How we image the world directly informs how we see and act in the world. As we face the social & environmental crises of climate change,imaging of the future must be bold and compelling.Within the framework of the Green New Deal and its urgent context,a newly accessible,uniquely versatile, & culturally significant tool will be employed. Graduate course will have additional course requirements

Independent research on topics selected by individual students in consultation with a faculty advisor .

Exploring the craft of speculative fiction to vision possible futures, this seminar takes on the future of our discipline as a site of design. Grounded in the histories and theories of radical pedagogies and practices, we will engage our skills to design speculative landscape futures and the pedagogies that will seed their emergence. The course itself will be a co-constructed pedagogical experiment in which we all take an active role in creating.

This seminar explores the history of landscapes as sites of pleasure, sensuality, and eroticism. Cases will range from the idealized topos of the enclosed garden to the marginal spaces of coastal landscapes and modern urban parks. By examining built works as well as those of myth, imagination, and fiction, we will analyze the ongoing significance of Arcadia and its progeny for revealing the erotic potential of landscape as a medium.

Explore the art and craft of designing with plants with a focus on species, space and community -- both plant communities and communities of people. Through rapid design exercises creatively employing large-scale hand and digital drawings and full-scale mockups, students will explore how to move from inspiration to plant selection, procurement, installation and maintenance of horticulture-focused designed landscapes.

Learn to better understand plant communities by observing plants, identifying their defining characteristics, and using different drawing and painting techniques to document them. This class will explore the two seasons of Winter and Spring to observe the changes in the landscape by closely looking at plants.

Introduction to methods and models of design practice administration: proposal, contracts, project management, collaboration and licensure.

In this course students will learn about the relationship between urban areas and the rivers, coasts, canals, lakes, lagoons, and other forms of water that support them. We'll draw from notable examples across the Americas and Europe, and study the technologies and ideas that humans have used to live with water. Students will develop their own maps, models, and technical drawings of a case study of their choosing.

Involves serving as a teaching assistant for a course, with teaching assignments coordinated by the chair. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.