LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CAPSTONE II

LANDARC 590

Exploration of special issues or problems in landscape architecture.

LANDARC 250

Principles of landscape and environmental design; incorporates elements of landscape planning and management. Provides background to the ideas and personalities shaping landscape architecture in America. Establishes design basics with a focus on the processes used by landscape architects to create meaningful site and context-sensitive designs in the built and natural environment.

LANDARC 210

Introduction to the techniques and processes used in solving three-dimensional design problems in the urban and natural environment through studio exercises. Understand how design process and design principles create physical and sensory experiences in our everyday lives. Develop fundamental verbal and graphic communication skills used in the professional design world. Gives attention to the basics of design theory and philosophy.

LANDARC 561

An application of landscape design principles and problem-solving methods to housing and urban issues with attention to physical site design, land-use controls, and the relationship between housing and associated land uses. The built environment is continuously changing through multiple land development-and redevelopment-decisions. Public policies on housing, transportation, mortgage financing, and taxation, in conjunction with changing demographics and lifestyle preferences, are just some of the factors that influence the evolving structure and function of the built environment. Landscape architects can play important roles--through design, civic engagement, and policy advocacy--in making our cities and suburbs healthier and more sustainable. Studio projects focus on the central city and/or suburbs.

LANDARC 610

Develop a comprehensive design and planning proposal that defines a real-world client's needs, program, goals, and objectives from a regional to site scale. Covers project research, site visits, literature review, precedent studies, inventory and analysis mapping, and programmatic development studies.