Spring 2027

Principles of Landscape Architecture Design and Graphics

Covers basic landscape design principles and develops practical graphic skills through communication media. Students learn to apply design to site planning and integrate form, function, and social experience.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.69 GPA, 90.3% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.59 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.73 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply design skills to advanced site planning projects at a variety of scales.

  • Explain how the design process creates forms, objects, spaces, and experiences.

  • Implement communication skills through computer graphics, hand graphics, verbal exercises, and written exercises.

  • Explain how the elements of site planning work together to integrate form, function, and social experience.

  • Incorporate design ethics that support diversity, inclusion, and equity, while creating places that respond to environmental, climate, and social justice

  • Apply research to support evidence-based design to improve the health and well-being of both human and nonhuman systems

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Landscape Architecture BLA

  • Declared in Landscape Architecture BLA
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  • Declared in Landscape Architecture BLA

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.69 GPA, 90.3% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.59 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.73 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Basic principles of landscape design
  • Graphic communication media
  • Design process: forms, objects, spaces, and experiences
  • Site planning elements: form, function, and social experience
  • Design ethics, diversity, inclusion, and environmental justice

Skills

  • Graphic communication media and practical graphic skills
  • Applying design skills to site planning projects at various scales
  • Integrating form, function, and social experience in site planning
  • Incorporating design ethics supporting diversity, inclusion, and equity
  • Using research to support evidence-based design for human and nonhuman systems

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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