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L ARCH 200 Landscape Architecture Field Trips (2) I&S/VLPA
Five field trips introduce typical landscape architecture projects and demonstrate scope of the landscape architecture field. Visits to major projects in the Puget Sound region include city and county parks, river parks, harbors, downtown redevelopments, streetscapes, campus headquarters, and others. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 300 Introductory Landscape Architecture Design Studio (6) VLPA
Introduction to history and environmental influences in field while developing design and graphic skills. Site analyses and drawing to convey design concepts. Relationship of visual perception to drawing, role of values in design, verbal communication, and behavioral analysis of design process. Required for admission to Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program.
L ARCH 301 Design Foundation Studio (5)
Introduces site planning and design process, principles, and skills through experiential learning. Using design principles, studio develops vocabular9y for site design. Activities foster skills in design process, form, language, creativity, communication, group dynamics, and organization. Methods include readings, discussion, design exercise and projects, critiques, precedent studies, site visits. Majors only.
L ARCH 302 Site Design in Urban Context (5)
Explores the application of design ideas and principles to urban sites. Theory and research informing the design of human environments and lessons from urban and ecological design precedents are implemented in the design of plazas, urban parks, waterfronts, streets, campuses, commercial areas, and historical sites.
L ARCH 303 Natural Processes Studio (5)
Project design studies related to natural systems. Emphasizes the innovative use of historical landscape forms to achieve more sustainable landscape performance, using both biophysical and social criteria to define sustainability. Introduces computer mapping applications.
L ARCH 310 Landscape Architecture Field Sketching (2)
Introductory level sketching of landscape subjects: natural and urban sites, plants, animals, architectural elements. Emphasis on perspective. Various media, including pencil, charcoal, markers, ink wash, water color.
Instructor Course Description:
Kristina Hill
L ARCH 311 Introduction to Design Graphics (2)
Introduction to communication techniques for various phases of the design process. Many techniques are introduced and their suitability and appropriateness for different purposes explored.
L ARCH 322 Introduction to Planting Design (3) VLPA
Traditional ways plants are used in landscape design. Composition and design characteristics of plant materials. Technical considerations for selection, climate, cultural suitability, availability, costs, and maintenance. Open to nonmajors.
Instructor Course Description:
Iain M Robertson
L ARCH 323 Topics in Planting Design I (1)
Explores planting design topics that relate specifically to site, program and design issues addressed in concurrent studio projects. Identifies and describes native and ornamental trees and shrubs on the UW campus and vicinity. Utilizes tree canopy layers, shrub masses and ground plane layers as space forms in studio project designs. Concurrent with L ARCH 301.
L ARCH 324 Topics in Planting Design II (1)
Explores planting design topics that relate specifically to site, program and design issues addressed in concurrent studio projects. Utilizes trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants as space forms in urban contexts. Utilizes plant characteristics of color, texture, and form in studio project design. Considers design principles of unity/diversity, complexity/simplicity and pattern in studio project design. Concurrent with L ARCH 302.
L ARCH 325 Topics in Planting Design III (1)
Explores planting design topics that relate specifically to site, program and design issues addressed in concurrent studio projects. Considers trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants of natural and ecosystems human-made plant communities. Considers plant community dynamics and changes over time. Concurrent with L ARCH 303.
L ARCH 331 Landscape Construction (4)
Basic course in site engineering, correlating the design and technical aspects of site development and suitability. Grading, drainage, circulation requirements and alignment, organization concepts relative to landscape resources, site evaluation, utilization and protection, and building and site program analysis and coordination.
L ARCH 332 Landscape Construction (4)
Materials and structures in landscape construction. Design criteria and construction techniques for detail elements of landscape architecture. Working drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and procedures.
L ARCH 341 Site Planning (3)
Introduces urban ecological design issues for good site planning processes, principles, and methods. Linked with L ARCH 301. Addresses planning for people, natural systems in place-making, design for movement with carried land uses. Includes readings, discussions, presentations, campus walks, case studies, graphic and written assignments.
L ARCH 352 History of Landscape Architecture (3) I&S/VLPA
Survey of the development of landscape architecture as an art form from Mesopotamia to the present. Relationships to physical landscape, climate, culture, religion, and other arts. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 353 History of Modern Landscape Architecture (3) I&S/VLPA
Development of profession and art of landscape architecture in the United States, Europe, South America, and Japan in relation to prevailing social, economic, political, and cultural factors. Relationships with other professions, especially architecture and urban planning, and other arts, such as painting and sculpture. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 361 The Human Experience of Place (3) I&S/VLPA
Interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the reciprocal relationship between people and the landscapes of everyday life. Through readings, discussion, in-class activities and mini-projects, students study place attachment, relationships to nature, environmental attitudes and perception, personal space, territoriality, urban public space, diversity, participation, and the politics of space. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 362 Designing Urban Landscapes: Theory and Politics (3) VLPA
Introduction to the design of landscape in urban contexts. Overview of major urban design theories and examples of historic and contemporary work. Discussion of the contesting urban processes: visions of city, social and cultural factors, public and community process, and the discourses of nature, urban ecology, and ecological design.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeffrey Hou
L ARCH 363 Ecological Design and Planning (3) NW
Introduction to landscape ecological theory applied to urban environments. Comparison of different vocabularies used to describe landscape structure and function, from the fields of landscape design, urban design, and biology. Discussion of design theories that have sought to re-center landscape planning and design around the goal of achieving ecological sustainability.
L ARCH 401 Urban Recreation Design (1-6) I&S/VLPA
Special studies in metropolitan, urban, and neighborhood recreation areas; the design, policies, and behavioral studies of existing parks, playgrounds, public places, and commercial areas. Design projects dealing with the play environment for all ages. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 402 Neighborhood Design Studio (1-6, max. 6)
Studio at neighborhood and site scales, mixed use. Incorporates urban design theory, precedents, neighborhood/project issues, and community clients. Skills in neighborhood and site analysis, programming, designs are developed in groups and individually. Methods include readings, research, critiques, field studies, and graphic, written and verbal presentations.
L ARCH 403 Cultural Landscape Studio (1-6, max. 6)
Studies of the landscape at various scales and in diversified contexts. Offers better understanding of visual components of landscapes, designer's capacity to evaluate and change these components, and resultant interaction with, and effect on, landscape user.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeffrey Hou
L ARCH 406 Individual Design Studio (6)
Senior projects in landscape architecture; projects vary according to the student's particular emphasis and needs.
L ARCH 411 Landscape Graphics (3)
Introduces fundamental hand-drawn graphic conventions, drawing techniques, and media used in environmental design. Emphasizes building drawing and media skills that support design ability development. Includes lectures, demonstrations, display of examples, drawing from slides, and in-class workshops.
L ARCH 412 Landscape Communications (2)
Development of advanced skills of visual representation to communicate students' visions for urban ecological design. Discussion of professional portfolio requirements and portfolio design issues.
Instructor Course Description:
Kristina Hill
L ARCH 423 Planting Design Studio (3)
Utilization of plants as design elements to manipulate space and modify the landscape for various activities and resolutions of site problems. Factors that determine the appropriate use and arrangement of plant materials in an urban context. Composition, plant selection, planting techniques, and maintenance requirements are major components of this class.
L ARCH 424 Advanced Planting Design Seminar (2)
Analyzes the complex relationship between plants, man, and environment and affords opportunity to explore methods of utilizing these relationships to plant and to design more responsive landscapes.
L ARCH 425 Advanced Planting Design Studio (1-6, max. 6)
Advanced seminar/studio in planting design. Provides opportunity to explore ecological, technical, and esthetic principles for selecting plants to meet specific site conditions. Project types include historical sites, multifamily housing projects, plazas, landfills, and reclamation sites.
L ARCH 433 Large-Scale Site Construction (4)
Includes studies of natural determinants and restraints on large-scale construction, development affected by service and utility systems, physiographic suitability of site, cost-benefit analysis, and critical path methodology for site construction projects.
L ARCH 440 Computers in Landscape Architecture (1-3, max. 3)
Laboratory, lecture, and demonstration classes to introduce software applications specific to required landscape architecture courses. Credit/no credit only.
L ARCH 441 CAD for Landscape Architecture (3)
An introduction to computer-aided drafting for professional landscape architectural practice. Students work in a variety of scales from detail, to planting design, to master plan graphics, to gain a broad-based knowledge of current industry CAD practices and techniques. Emphasizes using CAD as an effective design tool.
L ARCH 450 History of Environmental Design in the Pacific Northwest (3) VLPA
Development of landscape architecture, architecture, and urban planning in the Pacific Northwest from nineteenth century to the present, with major emphasis on twentieth century. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 451 History of Environmental Design on the West Coast (3) VLPA
Development of the environmental arts of landscape architecture, architecture, and urban planning from the eighteenth century to the present, with major emphasis on the twentieth century. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 452 History of Urban Landscapes (3)
Introduces the history of urban landscape design of public spaces in cities. Comparative survey of non-western cultures, including China, Japan, Islamic world, and Pre-Columbian countries to the western world from the Pre-Classical through nineteenth and twentieth century in Europe and USA. Examines as pragmatic practices or works of art.
L ARCH 463 Urban Recreational Design (3) I&S/VLPA
Special recreational studies in metropolitan, urban, and neighborhood areas; the design, policies, and behavioral studies of existing parks, playgrounds, public places, and commercial areas. Design projects dealing with the play environment for all ages. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 470 Landscape Architecture Tutorial (2, max. 6)
Various aspects of project organization, programming, scheduling of work loads, graphic and verbal communication problems, data collection methods and interpretation, methodologies for landscape planting and design.
L ARCH 473 Professional Practice (3)
Professional practice in private office, academic institutions, and public agencies. Evolution of landscape architecture as a profession, possible scenarios for future, variety of practice types and their relationships, ethical and legal/contractual responsibilities of a professional.
L ARCH 474 Project Design (1-6, max. 6)
Detailed design studies of small-to-medium-scale projects. General focus on public landscape areas and social/psychological uses of site. Specific focus on design development and professional office presentation.
Instructor Course Description:
Iain M Robertson
L ARCH 475 Advanced Project Design Studio (1-6, max. 6)
L ARCH 476 Professional Operations (3-6, max. 6)
Practicum course for landscape architecture majors for internship and exposure to the profession with working experiences at various levels of professional endeavor. Student apprenticeship in selected private offices and public agencies. Credit/no credit only.
L ARCH 477 Landscape Architecture Consultancy Studio (3-6, max. 6)
Simulation of the professional relationship of the landscape architect as a consultant to University students in other design planning and management disciplines. Focus is on site analysis, master planning, schematic designs and detailed design, working drawings, and planting plans associated with student projects.
L ARCH 495 Landscape Architectural Studies Abroad (1-10, max. 30)
Studies conducted under faculty supervision in various locations outside the United States.
L ARCH 498 Special Projects (1-10, max. 30)
Special projects as arranged. Open to nonmajors.
L ARCH 499 Undergraduate Research (1-9, max. 9)
Individual or small-group studies pertaining to special problems, theories, or issues of landscape architecture and environmental issues.
L ARCH 501 Landscape Design and Planning I (1-6)
Enhances perceptual awareness and design sensitivity to natural and man-made landscapes. Basic skills necessary for more advanced course work required in the Master of Landscape Architecture degree program. Examination of landscape environment through problem-solving techniques that acknowledge holistic approach to the environment.
L ARCH 503 Landscape Design of Communities (1-6)
Methods and techniques for developing physical design solutions and implementation strategies in neighborhoods and small communities. Social, economic, political, and individual forces affecting community development and growth. Comparison of several communities, identifying pertinent landscape issues, potential design solutions, and methods for achieving design goals through the political process.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeffrey Hou
L ARCH 504 Regional Landscape Planning (1-6)
Application of landscape ecological theory to the design of urban environments. Focuses on the strategic design of urban infrastructure, including underground drainage systems, roads, parks, transit systems, and on understanding the cumulative performance of urban sites.
Instructor Course Description:
Kristina Hill
L ARCH 505 Regional Landscape Design (1-6)
Theory/techniques of regional design to analyze, evaluate, plan, design, and manage the resources of the regional landscape continuum.
L ARCH 506 Landscape Visual Resources (1-6)
Survey of existing theory/techniques and the generation of new methods to analyze, evaluate, plan, design, and manage the visual resources of the landscape.
L ARCH 507 Landscape Art (1-6)
Public art placed in, or developed for, specific landscape settings. Various aspects and benefits of public art, including materials, technologies, philosophies of landscape imagery and meaning. General planning criteria for location for maximum public benefit and identification of objectives for a specific site and artwork.
L ARCH 511 Visual Learning (3)
Seminar/laboratory to develop visual learning processes and skills for applying these processes to landscape architecture. Related visualization concepts.
L ARCH 523 Landscape Technology (1-6)
Studio on rehabilitation of stressed urban landscapes. Focus varies but often deals with an analysis of the potentials in urban watershed and the study of alternative site designs for enhancing a range of landscape functions related to water quality. Taught by an interdisciplinary team.
L ARCH 550 History and Theory of Modern Landscape Architecture (3)
Lecture/seminar on history and theory of landscape architecture from the eighteenth century to the present. Relation to theory in related environmental design disciplines such as architecture and urban planning and other disciplines such as geography.
L ARCH 561 Regional Landscape Planning and Design (2)
Discussion of theories and case studies that provide a framework for defining sustainable urban design as both a cultural and biophysical phenomenon.
L ARCH 562 Landscape Art (2)
Process of developing and placing artwork in specific landscape settings. Types of artwork and landscape settings; ways for artist and site designer to interpret, alter, and incorporate factors of landscape; viewer's perception and experience; examples of public and private support.
L ARCH 570 Scholarship and Inquiry (3)
The first of two required courses on the nature of scholarship and theory building in landscape architecture. Investigate scholarship related to the design process, design critique, research, and practice. Students begin to frame their own scholarship for their master's thesis.
L ARCH 571 Seminar on Landscape Architecture Research (3)
Introduction and exploration of problems and opportunities of several basic research methods currently employed in landscape architecture research. Emphasis on how researchers identify research topics and develop appropriate research methods. Introduce analysis and interpretation of research results.
L ARCH 590 Seminar in Landscape Architecture (1-3, max. 12)
Advanced topics in landscape architecture with focus on unpublished areas of research.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeffrey Hou
L ARCH 598 Special Topics (1-6, max. 9)
Systematic study of specialized regional landscape subject matter, including history, technology, implementation, and other topics depending on current interest/needs. Topics vary and are announced in the preceding quarter.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeffrey Hou
L ARCH 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
L ARCH 601 Internship (3-9, max. 9)
Credit/no credit only.
L ARCH 700 Master’s Thesis (*)
