Master of Arts (MA) in Landscape Architecture

Graduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Design Proposals

• Dimostrare la padronanza di base dei principi chiave, dei sistemi e degli elementi di progettazione che informano la pianificazione e la progettazione bidimensionale e tridimensionale, nonché la composizione grafica
• Produrre proposte di progettazione e pianificazione difendibili che riflettano la consapevolezza dei fattori storici, ecologici e climatici di un dato sito
• Risolvere in modo creativo problemi di pianificazione e progettazione

Research and Design Process

• Condurre ricerche sufficienti e analizzare i risultati nei momenti appropriati del processo di pianificazione e progettazione
• Esplora concetti e alternative sufficienti e testali rispetto a criteri e standard pertinenti

Natural Systems

• Identificare e valutare le caratteristiche e i processi chiave presenti in un sito (come tipi di suolo, singole specie vegetali, comunità vegetali, fauna selvatica, condizioni climatiche e idrologia) per determinare opportunità e vincoli di progettazione

Fattori umani e sociali

• Dimostrare una comprensione delle complessità che esistono tra il comportamento umano e lo spazio esterno nelle proposte di pianificazione e progettazione

Technical Systems and Materials

• Applicare i principi di sostenibilità durante la pianificazione e la progettazione dei piani di livellamento e di drenaggio
• Selezionare e valutare i materiali che miglioreranno le qualità estetiche ed ecologiche di un dato sito e forniranno i requisiti programmatici del cliente e/o del gruppo di utenti

Storia, teoria e critica

• Dimostrare consapevolezza delle tradizioni, delle idee e delle influenze fondamentali del design nelle proposte di pianificazione e progettazione

Comunicazione visiva e verbale

• Consolidare la ricerca e presentare idee in presentazioni verbali e scritte concise e convincenti
• Applicare con successo vari media grafici per comunicare chiaramente idee e concetti che riflettono il processo di progettazione e le proposte di progetto

Professional Readiness

• Produce a professional portfolio demonstrating their skills and design process

Academy of Art University Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Academy of Art University will demonstrate the ability to:

• Produce a body of work suitable for seeking professional opportunities in their chosen field of art and design.
• Solve creative problems within their field of art and design, including research and synthesis of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge.
• Communicate their ideas professionally and connect with their intended audience using visual, oral, and written presentation skills relevant to their field.
• Execute technical, aesthetic, and conceptual decisions based on an understanding of art and design principles.
• Evaluate work in their field, including their own work, using professional terminology.
• Recognize the influence of major cultural and aesthetic trends, both historical and contemporary, on art and design products.
• Learn the professional skills and behaviors necessary to compete in the global marketplace for art and design.

Academy of Art University offers some of the best training and hands-on experience to help accelerate your future landscape architecture career. We pride ourselves in doing an exceptional job preparing you to excel in your chosen profession. Our degree programs are designed to equip aspiring landscape architects with a comprehensive toolbox of marketable skills that lead to success in the industry.

Landscape Architect

As a landscape architect, you'll analyze, plan, design, and implement natural as well as built environments of all scales. Design and plan the restoration of disturbed natural places and systems such as stream corridors, wetlands, forested areas, and mines.

Garden Designer

As a garden designer, you'll be responsible for planting, irrigation, and some hardscape design for residences and estates, Work with other designers and staff to create a holistic vision of urban spaces in this exciting career.

Landscape Designer

Working with the landscape architect, the designer helps with planning, design, management, and stewardship of natural and built environments.

Environmental Planner

As a regional and environmental planner, you'll be responsible for land use analysis, planning, zoning, and infrastructure as well as the analysis, design, and restoration of ecological systems. Help improve our parks and recreation areas in this important and fulfilling career path.

Landscape Renderer

Landscape renderers are responsible for the creation of drawings, plans, elevations, perspectives, and axonometric to communicate design intent and the spatial experience.

Master Planner

Abstract an idea in spatial forms as a master planner. You'll envision and design large-scale communities and lead the design process from conception to final construction.

Planting Designer

Create a planting designer based on site analysis, concept, and horticultural possibilities as a planting designer. You'll use plants in a creative and sustainable way to design projects at various scales.

Urban Designer

Responsible for the design or redesign of existing urban spaces, the urban designer crafts unique and usable apices for the public. Revitalize existing amenities, or create new physical connections in this unique and inspiring career path.

Urban Strategist

As an urban strategist, you'll develop strategies to improve underutilized urban sites to improve social impact. Urban strategists and typically landscape architects, designers, or urban designers looking to create a behavioral and social impact in urban environments.

Unit Requirements

Degree Requirements

• Successful completion of Final Portfolio Review
• Minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA
• A minimum grade of C in all required 36 units

Curriculum

Semester 1

• IAD 608: Imaging digitale (maggiore)
• LAN 605: Drawing as Process (Major)
• LAN 609: Ecological Foundations of Design 1 (Major)

Semester 2

• LAN 610: Landscape Architecture Design Studio (Major)
• LAN 617: Site Engineering (Major)
• LAN 619: Site Inventory & Analysis (Major)

Semester 3

• LAN 607: Historical Precedents of Landscape Architecture (Major)
• LAN 620: Site Design Studio (Major)
• LAN 665: Digital Graphics for Landscape Architecture (Major)

Semester 4

• LAN 660: Designing Public Spaces Studio (Major)
• LAN 678: People & the Environment (Major)
• LAN 679: Advanced Landscape Graphics (Major)