Master of Arts (MA) in Landscape Architecture

Graduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Design Proposals

• Démontrer une maîtrise de base des principes, systèmes et éléments clés de la conception qui éclairent la planification et la conception en deux et trois dimensions ainsi que la composition graphique.
• Produire des propositions de conception et de planification défendables qui reflètent une prise de conscience des facteurs historiques, écologiques et climatiques d'un site donné.
• Résoudre de manière créative les problèmes de planification et de conception

Research and Design Process

• Mener des recherches suffisantes et analyser les résultats à des moments appropriés du processus de planification et de conception.
• Explorer suffisamment de concepts et d'alternatives et les tester par rapport aux critères et normes pertinents

Natural Systems

• Identifier et évaluer les principales caractéristiques et processus trouvés sur un site (tels que les types de sol, les espèces végétales individuelles, les communautés végétales, la faune, les conditions climatiques et l'hydrologie) pour déterminer les opportunités et les contraintes de conception.

Facteurs humains et sociaux

• Démontrer une compréhension des complexités qui existent entre le comportement humain et l'espace extérieur dans les propositions de planification et de conception.

Technical Systems and Materials

• Appliquer les principes de durabilité lors de la planification et de la conception des plans de nivellement et de drainage.
• Sélectionner et évaluer les matériaux qui amélioreront à la fois les qualités esthétiques et écologiques d'un site donné et répondront aux exigences programmatiques du client et/ou du groupe d'utilisateurs.

Histoire, théorie et critique

• Démontrer une connaissance des traditions, des idées et des influences fondamentales en matière de conception dans les propositions de planification et de conception.

Communication visuelle et verbale

• Consolider la recherche et présenter les idées dans des présentations verbales et écrites concises et convaincantes
• Appliquer avec succès divers supports graphiques pour communiquer clairement des idées et des concepts qui reflètent le processus de conception et les propositions de projets.

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 : Imagerie numérique (Majeure)
• 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)