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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (A48) (Dept. Info)

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Landscape Architecture Design Studio IV

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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.

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Walking Class: a moving approach to Landscape Art and Architecture

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This course situates a methodology of walking through five critical lenses, and applies this sense-based knowledge to a landscape memorial project in St Louis, MO, USA. We will take our time to read and discuss case studies and critical research within each of the five lenses. Each lens will be accompanied by WALKIE-TALKIES: taking walks with professionals (curators, health care specialists, designers, artists, sociologists, and activists) who can scientifically speak to the walking content in relation to their home discipline, research, and practice. Our aim for this course is to translate methods within the five lenses into a multi-creative design and art tool. This tool will be tested, and put to the service of a wayfinding and monumental landscape design project with the Griot Museum called the Black Herstory Initiative*. Students will conduct sense-based mapping exercises that connect the site-specific stories and shared histories of women in St. Louis who are being honored with public art (wayfinding makers and pedestrian scale signage set in pollinator rain-gardens or repair). Your research will become an important part of this impactful project.

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Landscape Representation II: Digital Tools

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In the second course of the MLA representation series, students will be introduced to digital landscape illustration with a focus on representation of the phenomenological. This course will explore hybrid representation combining hand-drawing and digital techniques, diagramming as dynamic process (using tools such as Adobe After Effects), landscape entourage techniques, and their implementation within traditional architectural drawings, such as plan, section, elevation, and perspective. Focus will be placed on exquisite craft, intelligent methods of creation and clarity of conveyance. Open to all graduate and undergraduate students interested in representing site and landscape, with the permission of the instructor. Master of Landscape Architecture students and Landscape Architecture minors have priority. Students will be registered for the course from the waitlist by the Registrar's Office.

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GIS for Site Design

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This course module will introduce GIS mapping software and its application to methods used in site planning and design. The focus of this half-semester course is to understand the potential of GIS to visualize, analyze and utilize complex data. Students will learn techniques and tools in ArcGIS software, and explore how these can be applied to projects specific to individual sites. This course will introduce new skills and analytical complexity while building upon previously learned representation techniques. Master of Landscape Architecture students and Landscape Architecture minors have priority. Students will be registered for the course from the waitlist by the Registrar's Office.

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This course meets for the first half of the semester.

Start: 1/14/2025 End: 2/25/2025

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Planting Design

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The Planting Design module builds upon the Plants and Environment class, applying and expanding the vocabulary of plant material to understand the definition and construction of landscapes. Students will gain an awareness of planting typologies and strategies through function (micro-climate control, water consumption, hardiness) and perception (shade, color, density, texture). A series of design exercises will inform strategic plants specification in order to suit, define, or reinvent landscape typologies--from parks and gardens to green roofs and restorative landscapes. Conceptual thinking and an understanding of management and sustainability are emphasized. Master of Landscape Architecture students and Landscape Architecture minors have priority. Students will be registered for the course from the waitlist by the Registrar's Office.

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This course meets for the second half of the semester.

Start: 3/4/2025 End: 4/22/2025

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Attending Crises, Projecting Futures

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The word "crisis" is derived from the ancient Greek verb "krinein", meaning to judge in order to make a decision; and from its noun, "krisis", meaning judgment, decision. A crisis can be thought of as a turning point and a process of change when current ways of thinking and acting can no longer be sustained. This seminar looks at just one collective world decision with the capacity to positively redirect the outcomes of multiple current challenges. What if humanity gradually eliminated all animal agriculture and moved to a plant-based diet? Substantial evidence points to greater well-being for humans, animals, the environment, and the planet. Human health will improve markedly as diseases caused by animal consumption abate. Much of the 60% of pandemics that are zoonotic could be avoided. Crop availability will alleviate world hunger. Human-caused animal suffering can end. Deforestation, water and air pollution, vanishing biodiversity, and the greenhouse gases contributing to global warming will be greatly diminished. A new climate model developed recently by scientists at Stanford University finds that the phasing out of animal agriculture over the next 15 years represents "our best and most immediate chance to reverse the trajectory of climate change." Though the design professions are ill-equipped to affect the social, economic, and political wills to enact these changes, they do offer equally important analytical and visualization skills capable of creatively mapping and diagramming information in relational, interpretive, and generative ways. The first part of course is dedicated to this production after the investigation, assessment, and debate of various conflicting positions. The second part is interested in programmatic and design speculations for the 40% of habitable land that will be gradually freed. The task of the design disciplines is to uncover the imaginative potential of the land and to create the conditions for the appearance of new realities.

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Landscape Ecology

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Effective and sustainable design requires knowledge of the unique combination of systems, processes, and organisms that define specific regions, as well as the basic principles governing ecosystems. Applied ecology and design must also consider the role of human cultural interactions in shaping these systems. This course provides a broad understanding of ecological concepts focused through the genesis, character, and cultural relationships of contemporary ecosystems. Students will learn to use concepts of ecology, conservation biology, evolutionary theory, and natural and cultural history to determine the factors and system constraints influencing the design of landscapes. The course focuses on local ecosystems: their origins, composition, process regimes, and historic and contemporary cultural interactions. Through this immersion in local landscapes and habitats, students will gain an understanding of biological systems and ecological concepts, and acquire the tools to inform ecologically relevant and sustainable design anywhere in the world. The class incorporates lectures, guest presentations, field trips, and extensive readings and class discussions, along with assignments combining research and analysis in a design context. Master of Landscape Architecture students and Landscape Architecture minors have priority. Students will be registered for the course from the waitlist by the Registrar's Office.

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Modern and Contemporary Landscape Architecture

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This course examines significant theories and discourses in modern landscape architecture that have informed contemporary modes of practice. Organized around specific topics and lenses (such as site, ecology, art, and sustainability), the course aims to provide a number of critical perspectives on the relevance of landscape architecture as a cultural practice. Readings and discussions will supplement lectures to trace back contemporary ideas to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We will look at how broader transformations in social, environmental, economic and technological realms have affected discourse in landscape. To this end, students will be introduced to definitions that distinguish between landscape as a medium, landscape as an ideology, and landscape as a profession. Through weekly reviews of seminal projects and built works, we will examine significant styles, movements and design principles in landscape architecture. The course incorporates field trips and presentations by visitors, as well as applied research. It is open to both undergraduate and graduate students in the disciplines of landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. Priority is given to MLA students and undergraduate Landscape Architecture minors. Can count as a History/Theory elective.

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Landscape Architecture Design Studio VI

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The second comprehensive studio investigates a specific design problem to a high level of articulation and resolution. The problem is identified by the studio instructor, and students are empowered to develop generative processes based on a conceptual framework of their own devising. Emphasis is on the inculcation of novel, energetic, and rigorous design inquiries that defy pragmatic constraints at the same time as establishing new forms of landscape architectural practice.

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Professional Practice for Landscape Architecture Workshop

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Students receiving dual degrees in the Master of Landscape Architecture and the Master of Architecture programs will be required to complete A46 646 Professional Practice in the Architecture curriculum. Additionally, dual-degree students will be required to complete A48 6451 Professional Practice for Landscape Architecture Workshop. This 6-part workshop includes several of the sessions presented in A48 645 Professional Practice for Landscape Architecture, in particular, visits and sessions held at local Landscape Architecture firm offices. Study of professional practice topics focuses on firm management and project management for landscape architecture projects. Firm-related topics will include starting a practice, marketing, staffing, professional ethics and risk management. Project related topics will include fee negotiation, project structures and participants, scheduling, use of contracts and management documents, and construction document systems.

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This course meets for the first six weeks of the semester.

Start: 1/15/2025 End: 2/19/2025

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