Overview
Landscape architecture is where design meets ecology.
Landscape Architects design parks, waterfronts, streets, plazas, gardens and the spaces between buildings. They work on sites of many different scales, including long corridors of open space through suburbia, major city parks, and small courtyards within buildings.
This major teaches you to design living systems. You learn how soil, water, planting and climate behave over time, and how to shape places that people want to be in. That means designing for both the short and the long term, because landscapes often take decades to mature. Good ones keep improving after the designer has moved on.
In the Landscape Architecture major, you’ll complete core design, landscape and ecology subjects, culminating in a capstone project that puts together all your design, ecology and technical knowledge to come up with ideas for a real site.
Careers and Further Study
Graduates of the Landscape Architecture major can undertake the accredited Master of Landscape Architecture, or find employment in a broad range of design disciplines.