Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Landscape Architecture

Undergraduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Propuestas de diseño

• Diseñe entornos exteriores hermosos y funcionales de todas las escalas que respondan a las necesidades específicas del usuario/cliente y a los requisitos programáticos.
• Producir soluciones de planificación y diseño defendibles que reflejen el conocimiento de los factores culturales, históricos, ecológicos y climáticos de un sitio determinado.

Research and Design Process

• Realizar una observación y un análisis exhaustivos y/o una evaluación posterior a la ocupación de un sitio para determinar cómo las personas usan el espacio.
• Trabajar eficazmente con las formas, procesos y elementos naturales de un paisaje indígena durante todo el proceso de planificación y diseño.
• Aplicar los principios y elementos básicos del diseño a las propuestas de planificación y diseño de arquitectura paisajística.
• Explorar suficientes conceptos y propuestas alternativas como parte del proceso de planificación y diseño.

Natural Systems

• Identificar los componentes y procesos autóctonos que se encuentran en cualquier sitio (tipos de suelo, especies de plantas individuales, comunidades de plantas, vida silvestre, condiciones climáticas e hidrología) y determinar las oportunidades y limitaciones de planificación y diseño resultantes.
• Effectively use trees, shrubs, grasses, annuals, perennials, and bulbs in their planting designs in order to provide year-round seasonal beauty and function

Technical Systems and Materials

• Diseñar planes de nivelación y drenaje técnicamente precisos y ecológicamente sensibles.
• Seleccionar materiales que mejoren las cualidades estéticas y ecológicas de un sitio determinado, así como que satisfagan los requisitos programáticos del cliente y/o grupo de usuarios.
• Desarrollar detalles constructivos que resuelvan problemas estructurales, funcionales, estéticos/ambientales.
• Reconocer las oportunidades de diseño y las limitaciones de los códigos de edificación y construcción.

Historical Precedent

• Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of historical precedents, including cultural and geographic forces that have shaped major historical gardens, public parks, and urban open spaces in their design projects

Graphic/Visual Communication

• Visually communicate their ideas and proposals (perspectives, axonometrics, plans sections, and elevations)
• Successfully use a range of visual media to communicate their ideas and proposals (freehand and computer drawing, drafting, three-dimensional models, rendered presentation illustrative)

Verbal Presentation Skills

• Successfully communicate design proposals and key objectives of their projects
• Articular la justificación de las decisiones de diseño durante todo el proceso de diseño.

Professional Readiness

• Producir un portafolio profesional que demuestre sus habilidades y el proceso de diseño.
• Colaborar eficazmente con otros miembros de un equipo de proyecto.

Academy of Art University Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Academy of Art University will demonstrate the ability to:

• Produce a body of work suitable for seeking professional opportunities in their chosen field of art and design.
• Solve creative problems within their field of art and design, including research and synthesis of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge.
• Communicate their ideas professionally and connect with their intended audience using visual, oral, and written presentation skills relevant to their field.
• Execute technical, aesthetic, and conceptual decisions based on an understanding of art and design principles.
• Evaluate work in their field, including their own work, using professional terminology.
• Recognize the influence of major cultural and aesthetic trends, both historical and contemporary, on art and design products.
• Learn the professional skills and behaviors necessary to compete in the global marketplace for art and design.

Academy of Art University offers some of the best training and hands-on experience to help accelerate your future landscape architecture career. We pride ourselves in doing an exceptional job preparing you to excel in your chosen profession. Our degree programs are designed to equip aspiring landscape architects with a comprehensive toolbox of marketable skills that lead to success in the industry.

Landscape Architect

As a landscape architect, you'll analyze, plan, design, and implement natural as well as built environments of all scales. Design and plan the restoration of disturbed natural places and systems such as stream corridors, wetlands, forested areas, and mines.

Garden Designer

As a garden designer, you'll be responsible for planting, irrigation, and some hardscape design for residences and estates, Work with other designers and staff to create a holistic vision of urban spaces in this exciting career.

Landscape Designer

Working with the landscape architect, the designer helps with planning, design, management, and stewardship of natural and built environments.

Environmental Planner

As a regional and environmental planner, you'll be responsible for land use analysis, planning, zoning, and infrastructure as well as the analysis, design, and restoration of ecological systems. Help improve our parks and recreation areas in this important and fulfilling career path.

Landscape Renderer

Landscape renderers are responsible for the creation of drawings, plans, elevations, perspectives, and axonometric to communicate design intent and the spatial experience.

Master Planner

Abstract an idea in spatial forms as a master planner. You'll envision and design large-scale communities and lead the design process from conception to final construction.

Planting Designer

Create a planting designer based on site analysis, concept, and horticultural possibilities as a planting designer. You'll use plants in a creative and sustainable way to design projects at various scales.

Urban Designer

Responsible for the design or redesign of existing urban spaces, the urban designer crafts unique and usable apices for the public. Revitalize existing amenities, or create new physical connections in this unique and inspiring career path.

Urban Strategist

As an urban strategist, you'll develop strategies to improve underutilized urban sites to improve social impact. Urban strategists and typically landscape architects, designers, or urban designers looking to create a behavioral and social impact in urban environments.

Unit Requirements

Degree Requirements

• Una calificación mínima de C- en todos los cursos básicos, cursos principales y los siguientes cursos de artes liberales:
  • LA 107 Writing for the Multilingual Artist
    or LA 108 Composition for the Artist
  • LA/LAN 115 El Mundo Natural 1
  • LA/LAN 117 Survey of Landscape Architecture
  • LA/LAN 177 Pre-Industrial Urban Open Spaces
  • LA 255 College Math
  • LA 271 College Algebra with Geometry
  • LA/LAN 277 Post Industrial Urban Open Spaces
  • LA/LAN 297 Factores Sociales del Paisaje
  • Minimum 2.0 GPA and the following general education requirements:
  • 1 Historia de la arquitectura del paisaje: espacios abiertos urbanos preindustriales
  • 1 Historia de la arquitectura del paisaje: espacios abiertos urbanos posindustriales
  • 1 Written Communication: Composition
  • 1 Written Communication: Critical Thinking
  • 1 Written Communication: Context & Style
  • 1 Factores Sociales del Paisaje
  • 1 Historical Awareness
  • 1 Fundamental Math
  • 1 Applied Math
  • 1 Cultural Ideas & Influences
  • 1 Employment Communications & Practices

After the above general education requirements are met, take Liberal Arts electives as needed to fulfill the Liberal Arts unit requirement.

Curriculum

Semester 1

• FND 149: Introduction to Design Thinking (Core)
• LA 101: Freshman Symposium: Artistic Resilience (Liberal Arts)
• LAN 115: El mundo natural 1: La capa base (principal)
• LAN 193A: Dibujo y dibujo de paisajes - A (básico)

Semester 2

• ARH 110: Estudio 1: Estudio de Diseño Conceptual (Núcleo)
• IAD 210: Digital Imaging (Core)
• LA 148: Lo clásico y lo contemporáneo (artes liberales)
  Recomendado para el verano
• LA 255: College Math (Liberal Arts)
  Recommended for summer
• LAN 117: Estudio de arquitectura paisajística (especialidad)
• LAN 193B: Dibujo y dibujo de paisajes - B (Núcleo)

Semester 3

• LA 108: Composition for the Artist (Liberal Arts)
• LA 271: Álgebra universitaria con geometría (artes liberales)
• LAN 180: Plantas en el Paisaje 1 (Núcleo)
• LAN 223: Gráficos digitales para arquitectura paisajística (especialidad)
• LAN 235: Inventario y análisis del sitio (básico)
• LAN 250: Estudio de diseño paisajístico (núcleo)

Semester 4

• ARH 230: Color, percepción y espacio (principal)
  Recomendado para el verano
• LA 177: Espacios abiertos urbanos preindustriales (artes liberales)
• LA 202: English Composition: Creative Persuasion & Argument (Liberal Arts)
• LA 291: Designing Careers (Liberal Arts)
• LAN 260: Ingeniería del sitio (núcleo)
• LAN 277: Espacios abiertos urbanos postindustriales (principal)
  Recomendado para el verano
• LAN 300: Design of Urban Places Studio (Core)

Semester 5

• LA 110: Writing the Short Story (Liberal Arts)
• LA 297: Personas y Medio Ambiente (Artes Liberales)
• LAN 240: Diseño de Plantación (Núcleo)
• LAN 323: Gráficos horizontales avanzados (principal)
• LAN 330: The Technical World 2: Materiales y detalles (principal)

Semester 6

• FA 220: Acuarela (Optativa)
  Recomendado para el verano
• LA 462: Power of Myth and Symbol (Liberal Arts)
  Recommended for summer
• LAN 350: Estudio de prácticas y diseños sostenibles (especialidad)
• LAN 360: Documentos de construcción de arquitectura paisajística (principal)
• LAN 375: Bocetos para el desarrollo de ideas (especialidad)
• LAN 391: Preparación de cartera (principal)

Semester 7

• COM 208: Imágenes aéreas dinámicas (optativa)
• LA 359: Sociología Urbana (Artes Liberales)
• LAN 392: Prácticas Profesionales (Especialidad)
• LAN 400: Estudio de planificación regional (principal)

Semester 8

• ARH 240: Diseño y mapeo del sitio (optativa)
• LA 125: El proceso creativo (artes liberales)
• LA 254: Human-Centered Design (Liberal Arts)
• LA 306: Hablar creativamente: presentación para diseñadores (artes liberales)
  Recomendado para el verano
• LAN 135: El mundo natural 2: clima y comunidades vegetales (principal)
  Recomendado para el verano
• LAN 450: Estudio de diseño avanzado (núcleo)