LAAR 540 - Landscape Architecture Design Studio IV

Ten hours.
6 Credits

This design studio continues the educational objective of introducing increasingly complex site, conceptual, technical, and landscape scale in the study of landscape architecture place making. The projects are focused on community design and the physical manipulation of environments to revitalize and enhance human engagement and living in urban neighborhoods. Typical issues of concern that impact on physical design solutions include community identity and open space in urban neighborhoods Studio projects are drawn from real Baltimore neighborhoods where possible to provide students with realistic clients and client needs. The learning assessment in the course is built upon the students’ application of previous course materials. Students will be expected to develop design packages that include inventory/analysis, conceptual sketches, site plans/sections/elevations/3-dimensional drawings, grading and drainage, and other components typically utilized by landscape architects to convey project information.

Prerequisite(s) LAAR 530, or permission of the instructor or Department Chair.