新澳门六合彩内幕信息

Designing Outdoor Spaces With Creativity and Technology

Landscape architecture is so much more than designing backyards. It鈥檚 about planning communities and outdoor spaces that are more walkable, more livable, more meaningful and more sustainable.

Landscape architecture helps shape any designed open space, park or modern neighborhood. Playgrounds, botanical gardens, nature preserves, public memorials, environmental restoration projects, Central Park in New York City, the greenbelt where you cycle to the university 鈥 all were designed by landscape architects.

Planning, design and the environment

Some people are good at managing details but can鈥檛 see the forest for the trees. At 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, landscape architecture majors learn to see the forest and the trees. If you鈥檙e interested in planning, design and the environment, then consider a major that will teach you to design outdoor spaces, grasp the big picture, think in three dimensions and visualize potential.

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis offers the only accredited undergraduate landscape architecture program in the . When you graduate, you can work in landscape design or any field that values strong skills in design, problem-solving and communication. To become a licensed landscape architect, you鈥檒l need to work at least a couple of years after graduation under the supervision of a and then pass the licensing exam.

Admission to the landscape architecture major

To become a landscape architecture major, you first complete lower-division preparatory and requirements. You can do this as a declared 鈥pre-landscape architecture major鈥 or as any other major at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis.

You鈥檒l take a sampling of classes in a range of technical subjects that include biology and environmental horticulture. And no, you don鈥檛 have to be able to identify every single plant species in the lower 48. All students in the major complete the same .

In February of your second year 鈥 or February of your first year as a transfer student 鈥 you submit a to be admitted to the major. The program has space to accept 36 students, and applicants are notified before third quarter begins.

The landscape architecture major includes 15 units of hands-on studio coursework, and  you鈥檒l have plenty of faculty and staff support. You鈥檒l also be in the company of your classmates, who march through the two-year curriculum with you as a group. There is a senior project, an intensive two-quarter rite of passage that students really value, maybe more after they鈥檝e graduated. By the time you earn your degree, you will have learned how to create beautiful designs that are buildable and within budget.

Here鈥檚 a look at where some of our landscape architecture graduates are now:

Portrait of landscape architecture major Yang Zu
Yang Xu

Yang Xu 鈥14, landscape designer, in Sacramento and Santa Rosa

Our projects include schools, commercial rehabilitation, urban plazas, urban streetscape, community parks, housing developments, hotels and sometimes residential design. My main duties include site visits, site analysis, preparation of schematic design, preparation of construction documentation, cost estimates, specifications and renderings.

Yanet Martinez 鈥07, senior landscape designer and facility planning associate,

My interest in landscape architecture began from wanting to work on urban planning. Studying at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis showed me the importance of approaching a project site in a way that is environmentally friendly and minimizes the ecological impacts. We learned to achieve this while creating spaces that are engaging and multifunctional.

Ron Cheung 鈥96, senior landscape architect,

I have a team of landscape architects and designers under me working on all spectrum of landscape architecture ranging from neighborhood parks, trails, streetscape and development review to landscape support for community centers and fire stations. This position requires constant interaction with the public, community, stakeholders, and in-house design team and consultants.

Portrait of K.C. Farrell, landscape architecture major
K.C. Farrell

K.C. Farrell 鈥05 (新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis), M.A. landscape architecture (新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Berkeley), senior designer,  (national firm)

Most graduates, myself included, believe that they will be able to enter into a firm and begin designing, but that simply won鈥檛 be the case for 99 percent of them. CAD [computer-aided design] drafting, plan revisions, detail drafting 鈥 these are the ways that most entry-level landscape designers will be asked to contribute. The experience, which is really like an apprenticeship, will teach new landscape designers about the nuance of design and construction and help them refine their skills.

Vanvisa Musigapala 鈥15 (新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis), M.A. landscape architecture (新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Berkeley), designer, in Newport Beach, California

My firm does multifamily housing projects. If you want to integrate something creative as well as technical into one major, landscape architecture could be a great choice. You get to be creative with designing spaces while thinking critically about how those spaces work with human scale and location.

Portrait of Gayatri Narayan, landscape archiitecture major
Gayatri Narayan

Gayatri Narayan 鈥16, designer, in San Francisco and Healdsburg, California

I love where I work, and I am pursuing a landscape architect license. Ultimately, I鈥檇 like to return to graduate school for a master鈥檚 in urban planning or landscape architecture. I鈥檇 eventually like to work on public space projects, helping underrepresented people get involved in community design decisions.

Tyler Jones-Powell 鈥07, M.A. Architecture, California College of the Arts, senior designer/associate, in San Francisco

Our projects range from private gardens to big public spaces. I am currently working on an approximately 40-acre public park in Hayward, two residences in Hawaii, the streetscape and roof gardens for a 60-story commercial/civic/residential tower in downtown Detroit, and the campus master plan for California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

To see students in action, check out the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects online or on the group鈥檚 page.

Robin DeRieux is a senior writer for the .

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