Master of Arts (MA) in Landscape Architecture

Graduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Design Proposals

• Wykazać podstawową znajomość kluczowych zasad, systemów i elementów projektu, które wpływają na dwu- i trójwymiarowe planowanie i projektowanie, a także kompozycję graficzną
• Twórz możliwe do obrony propozycje projektów i planowania, które odzwierciedlają świadomość czynników historycznych, ekologicznych i klimatycznych danego miejsca
• Kreatywnie rozwiązuj problemy związane z planowaniem i projektowaniem

Research and Design Process

• Przeprowadzić wystarczające badania i przeanalizować wnioski w odpowiednich momentach procesu planowania i projektowania
• Zbadaj wystarczające koncepcje i alternatywy oraz przetestuj je pod kątem odpowiednich kryteriów i standardów

Natural Systems

• Zidentyfikuj i oceń kluczowe cechy i procesy występujące na danym terenie (takie jak rodzaje gleby, poszczególne gatunki roślin, zbiorowiska roślinne, dzika przyroda, warunki klimatyczne i hydrologia), aby określić możliwości i ograniczenia projektowe

Czynniki ludzkie i społeczne

• Wykazać zrozumienie złożoności istniejących pomiędzy ludzkim zachowaniem a przestrzenią zewnętrzną w propozycjach planowania i projektowania

Technical Systems and Materials

• Stosuj zasady zrównoważonego rozwoju podczas planowania i projektowania planów skarpy i odwadniania
• Wybierz i oceń materiały, które zarówno podniosą walory estetyczne i ekologiczne danego miejsca, jak i spełnią wymagania programowe klienta i/lub grupy użytkowników

Historia, teoria i krytyka

• Wykazać świadomość podstawowych tradycji projektowych, pomysłów i wpływów w planowaniu i propozycjach projektowych

Komunikacja wizualna i werbalna

• Konsoliduj badania i przedstawiaj pomysły w zwięzłych i przekonujących prezentacjach ustnych i pisemnych
• Skutecznie stosuj różne media graficzne, aby jasno przekazywać pomysły i koncepcje odzwierciedlające proces projektowania i propozycje projektów

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: Obrazowanie cyfrowe (główne)
• 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)