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 a range of landscape architecture and environmental planning projects.
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The next lecture of our Spring 2025 Lecture Series, ROOTS OF RESILIENCE: THE WATER, THE LAND, AND ITS PEOPLE, will be taking place on Wednesday, April 9th.
C.L. Bohannon, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) at the University of Virginia will be presenting “Sacred Spaces: African American Cultural Landscapes Along Florida’s Forgotten Coast”.
Please join us for this amazing lecture in Burns Auditorium at 6pm, you don’t want to miss it!
Go to https://design.ncsu.edu/landscape-architecture/news/lectures-events/ for more information.
The next lecture of the Spring 2025 Lecture Series, ROOTS OF RESILIENCE: THE WATER, THE LAND, AND ITS PEOPLE, will be taking place on this upcoming Monday, March 31st.
Kristina Hill, Research Director of The Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley, will be presenting “The Language of Sea Level Rise: Adaptation in Place Using Landforms”.
Please join us for this amazing lecture in Burns Auditorium at 6pm, you don’t want to miss it!
Go to https://design.ncsu.edu/landscape-architecture/news/lectures-events/ for more information.
Our next lecture of the Spring 2025 Lecture Series, ROOTS OF RESILIENCE: THE WATER, THE LAND, AND ITS PEOPLE, will be taking place on March 19th. Thaïsa Way, Director of Garden & Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, will be presenting “Gardens and Lands as Archives: Everything Happened in Place”.
Please join us for this amazing lecture in Burns Auditorium at 6pm, you don’t want to miss it!
Go to https://design.ncsu.edu/landscape-architecture/news/lectures-events/ for more information.
NCSU’s Department of Landscape Architecture’s Spring 2025 Lecture Series, ROOTS OF RESILIENCE: THE WATER, THE LAND, AND ITS PEOPLE, is off to a strong start, thanks to Drake Fowler’s amazing lecture last week.
The lecture series continues into April and touches on topics including gardens as archives, landforms for sea level rise, and African American cultural landscapes. These unique presentations will lead us through the various roles that water, land, and people can play in designing resilient communities.
Mark your calendars! 3/19 - THAÏSA WAY, Dumbarton Oaks 3/31 - KRISTINA HILL, UC Berkeley 4/9 - CL BOHANNON, University of Virginia
All lectures take place at 6pm in Burns Auditorium. See you there!
Go to https://design.ncsu.edu/landscape-architecture/news/lectures-events/ for more information.
LAEP’s Spring 2025 Lecture Series, Roots of Resilience: the water, the land, and its people, will kick off this Wednesday, February 26th, from 6-7:30 pm in Burns Auditorium.
Please join us in person as Drake Fowler, former NC ASLA president & current Executive Director of the NC Arboretum, will give a presentation titled “Fostering Connections: People, Plants and Process”. Drake will be discussing how gardens could be a solution to global disconnection.
See you there! Go to https://design.ncsu.edu/landscape-architecture/news/lectures-events/ for more information.
LECTURE TODAY!! Join us at 6pm in Burns Auditorium for a wonderful lecture by Gareth Doherty from Harvard GSD. This is our last lecture of the semester and you don’t want to miss it!
For the students- there will also be a brown bag lunch with Gareth from 12-1pm in the Pit.
This morning at the NC Museum of Art for the SASLA Sketch Crawl. We had a great time enjoying the beautiful weather and sketching the landscape! Thank you @ncsu_sasla for organizing this event!
Wednesday Nov 13th, the #laeplectureseries is excited to host @garethgerarddoherty from the @harvardgsd. Doherty will be presenting “Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design” and will include some of his work in Afro-Brazil and Africa.
Please join us at 6pm in Burns Auditorium! See you there! Scan the QR code for more information.
Don’t forget! This Wednesday LAEP is pleased to welcome Professor Pedro Camarena, #UniversidadNacionalAutónomadeMéxico (#UNAM.) This lecture will be offered in person & on zoom! Click the link in our bio to register for the zoom session.
Camarena will present a range of projects that impart the value of endemic landscapes and regional planning strategies in Mexico’s environs.
Pedro has collaborated with International firms and academic institutions, including Turenscape— Kongjian Yu; #CiudadUniversitaria #UnescoWorldHeritage site at UNAM; #UPenn; among others.
Camarena invites landscape architecture, urban design, allied professionals and students to understand the complexity of landscapes belonging to other territories as part of global perspectives and a more current, spatial design arena....
Mark your calendars! We are hosting two #laeplectureseries events in November. Come join us at 6pm in Burns Auditorium for both lectures! CEU’s will be available.
November 6th- Pedro Camarena presenting “Geoparks and the Regional Scale of the Landscape: Cities for a better future”. This lecture will be offered in person and on Zoom, CLICK THE LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM.
November 13th- Gareth Doherty presenting “Landscape Fieldwork: How engaging the world can change design”
Scan the QR Code for more information! #ncsu #ncstatelaep #landscapearchitecture...
Our mission is to inspire and guide design students in their scholarship and application of landscape architecture through design solutions focused on social and environmental principles impacting communities across multiple scales and global territories.
We prepare the next generation of landscape architects to engage in 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:
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.
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.
