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Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Landscape architects combine critical design thinking, planning and design, and knowledge of physical and social sciences, to engage situations of landscape involving health, safety, and wellbeing.
The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is a STEM-designated degree and fully accredited program that prepares graduate students for the rigors of professional practice, research, leadership, and community engagement. Students combine critical design thinking with creativity, and passion to address diverse landscape architecture and environmental planning projects.
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Join us this Wednesday, April 3rd, for a wonderful lecture with Thomas Woltz, senior principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz.
The lecture will take place in Burns Auditorium at 4:30-6pm. Along with this, there will be a brown bag lunch from 12-1pm. UPDATE: HAPPY HOUR WILL NOT BE HELD THIS WEEK.
CEU’s will be available. Go to https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/laep_lecture_thomas_woltz for more information.
Join us next Wednesday, March 27th for Barbara Deutsch’s lecture “Designing for People and Planet: a Great Time to be a Landscape Architect” @lafoundation
The lecture will take place in Burns Auditorium from 4:30-6pm. For licensed professionals, this lecture is a great opportunity for CEU’s.
Go to https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/laep_lecture_barbara_deutsch for more information.
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Tomorrow, Wednesday March 20th, SASLA and the LAEP department is sponsoring a brown bag lunch and evening lecture with Kyle Verseman and Jayne Worth from Landscape Forms.
Please welcome them at the brown bag lunch in the pit from 12-1.
The lecture will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 in Burns Auditorium.
See you there!
Join us on February 21st for a wonderful lecture with Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA; Principal EDSA; and ASLA president elect.
Following the lecture, we will have happy hour at Players Retreat sponsored by NCASLA Emerging Professionals Committee. See you there!
Go to https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/laep_lecture_kona_gray for more information
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NC State’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning is proud to announce our Spring 2024 Lecture Series:
VISIONS: A Range of Magnitudes
The lectures take place in Burns Auditorium at 4:30 pm. Make sure to save the dates!
February 21, 2024:
Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA
Principal, EDSA; ASLA President Elect
March 27, 2024:
Barbara Deutsch, FASLA
CEO, Landscape Architecture Foundation
April 3, 2024:
Thomas Woltz, FASLA, CLARB
Sr. Principal and Owner, Nelson Byrd Woltz
April 17, 2024:
Dr. Saúl Alcántara Onofre
Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
This semester, joining via Zoom will not be an option, so please come support our lectures and events in person. Recordings will be posted to https://design.ncsu.edu/landscape-architecture/news/lectures-events/
Not to be missed! hashtag#IFLAAmericas Regional Conference in hashtag#BuenoaAires this May!
Join hashtag#landscapearchitecture colleagues, practitioners, and faculty from across the Americas: North, Central, and South!
Greater knowledge = > probability we’ll tackle the hashtag#wicked challenges of our time. The hashtag#IFLAAR Conference provides a chance to actively explore hashtag#diverse hashtag#landscapes and hashtag#ourclimateculture!
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Our mission is to teach, learn, research, and apply state-of-the-art practices that create innovative and resilient landscapes focused on human and ecosystem health, safety, well-being, social equity, and quality of life.
We prepare the next generation of landscape architects to engage challenges and opportunities focused on:
- Landscape dynamics and resilient design;
- Community planning and design;
- Design for children and families;
- Research and evidence-based design strategies;
- Emerging digital design tools for representation, simulation, and evaluation.
Graduate Landscape Architecture
The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is a STEM-designated degree and LAAB accredited program that prepares graduate students for the rigors of professional practice, research, leadership, and community engagement. Our students, faculty, and local design community seek to understand the impact of human actions on the land and to respond with community-based design strategies. We are dedicated to teaching, researching, and practicing design processes that acknowledge the interdependence of built landscapes and ecological, social, and economic systems.
The department offers three main academic curriculum tracks:
- First Professional Masters of Landscape Architecture (Track III)
- First Professional Masters of Landscape Architecture, Advanced Standing (Track II)
- Post-Professional Degree (Track I)
The first half of the academic program prepares students for the current practice and discipline of landscape architecture. It equips them with the core knowledge base, tools, processes, and skills in design, site works, history and theory, planning, research and the culture of professional practice.
The second half of the academic program propels students into the profession and discipline of the future that they will help evolve and lead. It positions students to pursue substantive inquiry into their own, those of the faculty, and those of the larger extended community. Students master bodies of knowledge, pursue evidence-based research, and hone verbal, written, and graphic communication skills.
Throughout their program of study, students combine critical design thinking talents with their intelligence, creativity, and passions to frame, engage and challenge the questions, problems, and situations of landscape that involve health, safety, wellbeing, and quality of life.
The department also offers the following certificates and programs:
- Graduate Minors and Certificate Programs
Graduate minors are available to all students and consist of nine credit hours of courses, in another graduate degree granting discipline, listed as 400-level or above. A member of that degree’s faculty may serve as a third member of the student’s final project committee. Certificates offered in GIS, Public Policy and Horticultural Science may be of particular interest. Please visit the Graduate Minors and Certificate Page for more information.
Graduate Certificate in City Design
The Graduate Certificate in City Design focuses on design at the scale of the city, and within neighborhoods and urban districts. Studios and seminars focus on the challenges, and opportunities facing communities and cities in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis upon principles of sustainability and urban ecology.
Learn more
Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design Certificate
The imperative motivating the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design is to educate the next generation of practitioners and scholars to apply knowledge gained in the classroom and in the field to reduce the rise in disaster losses and assist communities to adapt to a changing climate.
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- Inter-Institutional Study
Students at NC State University may also register for courses at local universities (UNC–Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, and Duke University) paying NC State University credit fees. Our students have an exceptional range of courses and programs open to them through these inter-institutional study opportunities. Students may also take courses at the other Raleigh colleges that are members of the Cooperating Raleigh Colleges organization. Please visit the Inter-Institutional Study Page for more information.
Undergraduate Minor in Landscape Architecture
While we no longer offer a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, it is possible for NC State University undergraduate students to take certain landscape architecture courses as electives. Please visit the Undergraduate Minor in Landscape Architecture Page for more information.
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See more examples of student work here: Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Student Work
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Since buying her home in 2007, Gret Mackintosh has been designing a lush environment filled with foraged flora native to the Lowcountry - all in her backyard.
“I double majored in art and design and landscape architecture at the NC State College of Design, and in school, I always thought of the two things separately. But I have been using those skills together more and more over the years.”
Mackintosh and her Charleston, SC garden were recently featured in @gardenandgun.
🔗 in bio to read the full story.
📸: Sully Sullivan for Garden & Gun Magazine
We`re scaling new heights in the fields of environmental justice and climate resilience. 🏡🏞
Students, faculty and alumni attended the @ncasla_landarch Conference in Asheville, receiving multiple awards and presenting to professionals from across the state.
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (@ncstatelaep) sponsored fourteen Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) students in the College of Design to attend the event.
The theme for the 2024 conference was “Elevate,” which examined the idea of scaling new heights, including topics related to differing factors that join to create innovative and diverse solutions.
Topics included projects and processes that promote collaboration, environmental justice and social and economic resiliency for local communities.
🔗 Check out all of the projects and awards in our bio!
📍Kefalonia, Greece
The past two weeks have been nothing short of an adventure! Myself and a group of students studied abroad in Greece, specifically researching the ancient burial tombs of Mazarakata. We worked with the ministry of culture to create a UI concept of a walkthrough of the site using 3D photogrammetry technology. In the years to come, our research will pave the way for designers to make this project come to life, in hopes that it will be used by the local community in Kefalonia.
When we were not working, we went on excursions around the island, ate authentic Greek food, enjoyed time at the beach, and walked around the town. Studying abroad, thanks to the College of Design, allowed me to immerse myself in another culture, as well as meet other students in my major. This is an experience I will remember for the rest of my life and I hope to return back to Greece one day!
Yamas! (Cheers)☺️🇬🇷
- Ashton Walthall (‘25)