LA 3010
Integrating Theory and Practice I
This studio engages students in a design process on complex sites and spaces that interact with both human and natural systems, and critically explores theories of landscape architecture and representation through projects that derive form from a specific site and place. Students will work with processes of landscape change and how to design with and represent change. This course reinforces the fundamentals of theory as related to site-specific design processes.
Topics
- Identify, analyze, and evaluate on-site and adjacent systems (both natural and anthropogenic) and their interactions.
- Address complex landscape situations through the specificity of Landscape Architecture to propose sustainable future scenarios for landscapes in a process of change and/or abandonment.
- Apply multi-layered site analysis skills and take a critical stance on the assemblage of data.
- Conduct complex analysis of a site and systems using a concrete, process-based and material design approach at multiple scales develop conceptual designs and methods that inform more refined site plans and fit to the ecologies of a site and context.
- Gain familiarity and confidence with the design scale, including developing skills in landform manipulation through scaled drawing and/or precise and dynamic models.
- Expand graphic and computer skills to clearly develop and communicate strategies, design ideas, spatial qualities, and management requirements for landscape design over time.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
minimum grade of C- in LA 2020 or permission of instructor.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027