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Introduction to the Landscape Design Professions

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ARCH X 472

A quick dive into landscape theory, history, design principles, and understanding scale and drawing. Students apply these lessons in a final project resulting in scaled drawings and models.

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What you can learn.

Acquire a brief historical overview of landscape architectural design history as an introductory basis for discussion and a site design opportunity
Learn the language of plan, section, and elevation, using drawings to express design ideas
Develop skills and confidence to express three-dimensional ideas as two-dimensional drawings and in model format
See examples of award-winning landscape architectural work to become familiar with the breadth and richness of the profession

About This Course

This introductory course covers the history, scope, types and scale of landscape design professions; licensure; professional societies; and current issues. Terminology, construction concepts, basic graphic skills and model-making are also introduced.

This course applies toward the following programs

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Horticulture

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Horticulture

certificate Take your love of plants and turn it into a career. The Horticulture Certificate provides students with the foundational science behind maintaining plants and their environment. This program may be completed 100% online.

Take your love of plants and turn it into a career. The Horticulture Certificate provides students with the foundational science behind maintaining plants and their environment. This program may be completed 100% online.

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Landscape Architecture

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Landscape Architecture

certificate Whether you want to design a national park, or a modest, water-efficient backyard, landscape architecture can give you the skills and abilities to change the places you live, work, and play for the better. The profession of landscape architecture is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together design, environmental systems, sustainability, construction knowledge—as well as land and water conservation—to influence place making, and to create designed outdoor living spaces.

Whether you want to design a national park, or a modest, water-efficient backyard, landscape architecture can give you the skills and abilities to change the places you live, work, and play for the better. The profession of landscape architecture is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together design, environmental systems, sustainability, construction knowledge—as well as land and water conservation—to influence place making, and to create designed outdoor living spaces.

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