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Preparing Students for Critical Thinking and Professional Practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Offering a master\u2019s of landscape architecture degree with 52 students enrolled, the Department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at NC State University trains professionals for critical thinking in design, prepares them for professional practice, and provides opportunities for research, leadership and community engagement within local and global contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This STEM-designated and LAAB-accredited program allows students the opportunity to work at projects across scales \u2013 from parks and civic spaces to regional planning \u2013 to address natural resource conservation, environmental resilience and the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty expertise spans both regional and global connections, with research and academic practice across North Carolina, as well as Latin America, Europe, Africa and beyond. An active lecture series brings distinguished practitioners to the campus from the Americas, Mexico, Colombia, and Turkey, amongst others.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Urbanism Across Calzada Mexico Tacuba – Infrastructure as Culture in Mexico City, Fall 2025
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LAR 507 Advanced Interdisciplinary Studio<\/strong>: Urbanism Across Calzada Mexico Tacuba – Infrastructure as Culture in Mexico City<\/br>Fall 2024<\/italic>, Jules Mainor, MLA ’25, Christopher Vann, MLA ’25<\/br>Instructor: Mar\u00eda Bellalta, Instructor Support: Claire Henkel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A Program Framework that Transcends Geographic Boundaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The NC State MLA program is grounded in a vision that integrates design, ecology, and environmental planning from a global, intercultural, and socially engaged perspective. Understanding the contemporary landscape requires transcending disciplinary and geographic boundaries, incorporating knowledge and experiences from multiple territories, ecologies, and communities. Our program situates landscape architecture at the intersection of environmental conservation and accelerated urbanization, with an emphasis on resilient landscapes, water management, adaptive climate infrastructure, and collective well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty have led international workshops on urban design, habitat protection, and coastal resilience. Research initiatives such as The Just Lab connect landscape with African and indigenous communities, recognizing the deep ancestral history linking North Carolina and the African continent. The Natural Learning Initiative explores the connection between environmental design and the well-being of communities. The Coastal Dynamics Design Lab (CDDL) completes this intellectual ecosystem by addressing coastal resilience through applied design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, these assets position LAEP as a program with a vocation for disciplinary leadership: a department that not only trains excellent professionals but also generates relevant knowledge and builds the academic and institutional bridges that landscape architecture needs to address the territorial, environmental, and social challenges of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Graduate Landscape Architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Minors and Certificate Programs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s faculty may serve as a third member of the student\u2019s 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<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heat islands, urban deserts, dwindling biodiversity. Increased extreme weather events. As the world continues to experience the rapidly increasing effects of climate change, landscape architects like Meg Calkins, FASLA, FCELA are emerging as shaping solutions to the challenges affecting our physical environments today.\u00a0<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n \n

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The first-ever XR Showcase took place April 8, 2026, at D.H. Hill Library in the Faculty Research Commons. The XR Showcase highlighted how faculty across campus are transforming the classroom through extended reality (XR) technology \u2014 giving faculty and staff a space to explore innovative XR projects and connect outside of their daily work.  Hosted…<\/span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t \t \n <\/div>\n\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Confluence of Culture and Ecology in Landscape Design\u201d with Larry Weaner, FAPLD.

Larry Weaner is one of the most influential voices in ecological landscape design. Hear how he reimagines how our landscapes can do more\u2014supporting biodiversity, merging culture, and driving real environmental change.

Founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates and New Directions in the American Landscape, Weaner brings decades of award-winning work, national recognition, and the bold ideas behind Garden Revolution. His projects\u2014spanning over 20 states and the U.K.\u2014show how design can work merge nature and communities.

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJoin us for our Spring 2026 Lecture Series Keynote Speaker, Mario Schjetnan.

Mexican landscape architect and founder of Grupo de Dise\u00f1o Urbano, Schjetnan has spent more than 45 years creating projects that bridge community, nature, and the city, with a strong focus on social justice and urban equity.

A graduate of UNAM with a Master\u2019s in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from UC Berkeley, he is also a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. His work has received numerous international awards, including the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.

We hope you can join us!

Lecture: Reconciling Community, Nature & City
Date: March 25, 2026
Time: 6 pm
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NC State\u2019s landscape architecture program is one of the oldest in the American South, with roots stretching back to the 1890s. The program saw its first graduates in 1932, with Elizabeth Lawrence, author of The Southern Garden and a trailblazing figure in the profession, among its first cohort. The program joined the School of Design in 1948 alongside architecture, cementing its identity within a rigorous, interdisciplinary design culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It earned ASLA accreditation in 1951, becoming one of the first two accredited programs in the South. In its earliest decades, visiting lecturers included Thomas Church, Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, Lawrence Halprin, and Roberto Burle Marx. Early graduates distinguished themselves internationally: George Patton and Richard Bell received the prestigious Rome Prize. In 1969, faculty and students launched Design Workshop directly out of NC State. Today, the department continues this legacy of design excellence, environmental inquiry, and global engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Serrano, Nicholas. \u201cLandscape Architecture: An Early History.\u201d NC State College of Design, July 12, 2023.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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