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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Congratulations to our 2024 ASLA Student Award winners! Way to go NC State! #asla2024 @nationalasla
NC State representing at ASLA! #asla2024 #ncstatelaep @nationalasla
@tatianamveloso1 and Alma DuSolier of @hooddesignstudio, the incoming LAF Board Chair, at the Olmsted Scholars luncheon with the @lafoundation Board in DC. Congratulations Tatiana on being an #olmstedscholar Semi-finalist!
Upcoming #laeplectureseries event! Join us on Wednesday, October 16th, for a wonderful lecture with Kate Ancaya, founding partner and design principal of @livingroofsinc
The lecture will take place in Burns Auditorium at 6-7:30pm. Along with this, there will be a brown bag lunch from 12-1pm and a Happy Hour at Players Retreat following the lecture.
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Will you be attending the ASLA Conference in DC? Check out this upcoming event!
What: Happy Hour with ASLA Almuni and Friends
When: Tuesday, October 8th, 4:30-6:30
Where: Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar, located at 801 9th St. NW.
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department Head, Maria Bellalta is hosting a cocktail reception with drinks and light hors d’oeuvres for Alumni, Students, Faculty and Friends of the College of Design living in the area or attending the ASLA conference. Please plan to attend, we look forward to seeing you there!
Please use the link below to register by October 1st: https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=01ea014f778f4c5b910d9b8cd&id=ec3ae80697
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Are you thinking about joining our program? Open House is coming up on October 16th! See you there!
Register here (or scan the QR Code): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLkxsGd5Oawds_QlelaftcbL2H6yqFklZmlpGM-PCgbKASwg/viewform
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Yesterday was day ONE in Mexico City as part of our #NCSTATE DUDA interdisciplinary study with Arq. Gabriela Carrillo and #UNAM students, learning about the history of #Aztec and indigenous cultures and the evolution of this incredible city!
UNAM’s campus masterplan invites students to understand the planning of this enchanted space, tied together by a 700 meter central ‘void’ designed by #LuisBarragan for everyone to convene, and bordered by beautiful spaces and buildings by #JuanOGorman, #MarioPani, and others Mexican visionsries.
We’re off today again to explore the #Zocalo and #TemploMayor, and the #CalzadaMéxicoTacuba, where it all began!
A special thank you to Turan Duda, for his generosity in sponsoring this learning opportunity and lifetime journey for our students. Thank you, Turan!
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#CDMX!
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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.
Don’t forget, today is jam packed with events!
12-1: Brown Bag Lunch with Barbara Deutsch in the Pit
4:30-5:30: Lecture with Barbara Deutsch in Burns Auditorium
5:30: Happy Hour at Players Retreat
See you there!
Congratulations to Claire Henkel @fancy___nancy___ and @ncsucoastaldynamics on receiving the CELA Academy of Fellows Best Poster Award! Thank you for your hard work!
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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!
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 justice impacting communities across 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:
- 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
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.
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Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design Certificate
This certificate aims 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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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.
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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.
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See more examples of student work here: Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Student Work
