Landscape Architecture Design Studio IV

6 units

The final studio in the core sequence operates within an expanded spatial and conceptual framework. Students will engage the complexities of the large-scale site to explore, critique, and re-engineer ecological, architectural, socio-economic, and ideological systems. A studio site characterized by environmentally sensitive conditions, culturally significant features, and encroaching urbanization will lead to choices between the management of existing resources and development. To achieve this, students will progress from the analysis and mapping of the site to the generation of innovative program strategies. Finally they will develop those strategies into schematic design proposals. Throughout, landscape is treated as figure instead of ground, serving as a agent to structure and mediate between natural and human communities.