Explore the Program
The department of landscape architecture and environmental planning’s fully accredited program has a rich legacy built on preparing graduate students for the rigors of professional practice, research, leadership, and community engagement. Students combine critical design thinking talents with intelligence, creativity, and passion to frame, engage, experiment, and challenge the questions, problems, and opportunities involving diverse landscape situations.
NC State Creatives Series
To Tatiana Veloso, design has a powerful ability to connect individuals to each other and to the places they inhabit. A 2024 graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program, her work bridges the gap between art, science, and community engagement.
Makayla Esposito is a graduate student in the NC State College of Design’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning program and she is passionate about making the invisible, visible.
Her interest in landscape architecture is rooted in the hidden wonders behind a landscape. Who is impacted by a landscape? How does a landscape intersect with a community’s economy, ecology and history? To Makayla, the best way to answer these questions is through design.