LA 102 sect001 (grad)
Case Studies in Landscape Design


Spring 2007

Instructor:
Walter Hood (CCN: 48506-Lecture, 48509-Studio)

Lecture: MW 9:00 – 10:00 315 D Wurster
Studio: MW 10:00 – 1:00 315 Wurster

Units: 5

This studio builds on the work completed in LA 101 and continues to address the challenges in defining and making landscape space. The design problems require students to address a specific set of site conditions in conjunction with a defined program to enhance the use and activities of the site. Each studio problem will require a negotiation between spatially abstract ideas, program elements, the parameters of site, and on the ground built form. As students work through each studio problem they will move from a site scale defined by acres to the detail scale defined by inches and explore the relationship between materials and spatial definition. Aspects of sustainable site design and brownfield regeneration will be explored.