School of Landscape Architecture
Tackling complex environmental challenges with bold, interdisciplinary design.
Why Landscape Architecture at UT?Ìý
We are focused on giving students the highly synthetic design abilities necessary to engage the complex socio-ecological landscapes of the 21st Century. Our students engage in a rigorous course of disciplinary and interdisciplinary training to explore and master skills and learn and develop knowledge with imagination and intelligence. You’ll learn to engage today’s wicked problems–from strategic and infrastructural planning of landscape resources at the scale of the Tennessee River to detailed design investigations of brownfields, parks, and yet unclassified landscape territories that continuously emerge as a result of larger socio-economic and -ecologic forces.Ìý
PedagogyÌý
Our curriculum provides students with the design, digital communication, and critical-thinking skills necessary for collaborative leadership on the multidisciplinary, multifunctional, multiscalar landscape projects that will define the future of the built environment. The design studio is at the core of our pedagogy. Across six semesters of studio or an optional final thesis, students are instructed in a wide range of approaches to design and design thinking.Ìý
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Spaces and ResourcesÌý
Students have access to advanced fabrication technologies and a wood shop at the University of Tennessee ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’s Fabrication Lab in Knoxville’s downtown district.Ìý In addition to the fab lab, students are able to access a wood shop within the art and architecture building.Ìý Studio spaces were renovated in 2015, and each student has their own big screen monitor, and large collaborative worktables.ÌýÌýÌý
CareersÌý
Our students pursue careers nationally and internationally in which their wide range of creative and communicative skills are in demand. We have an ever-increasing footprint in the US and are constantly working to forge new connections with firms looking for future leaders in the field.Ìý
Our DegreesÌý
Master of Landscape Architecture, MLA
Master of Science in Landscape Architecture, MSLA
Dual Degree: Master of Architecture and MLAÌý
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Supplement Your MajorÌý
Minors
Enhance your major with a minor in landscape architecture studies and explore design solutions for sustainability, climate change, and environmental justice.
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