LA 102 sect002 (ug)
Case Studies in Landscape Design


Instructor:
Sarah Kuehl (CCN: 48512-Lecture, 48515-Studio)

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

Units: 5

LA102 is the second course in a sequence of studios taken by undergraduate landscape architecture students at the College of Environmental Design. In the first year of the landscape architectural studio sequence, students begin to learn how to manipulate the three key formal elements available to the landscape designer - the land (topography), architectural form (walls, pavements, small structural objects and furnishings) and vegetation. Building on the topographical manipulation skills developed in LA 101 this studio will focus on architectural form and vegetation, particular how these elements are understood in relationship to varied topographical conditions. The studio is a hands-on experience where students will produce drawings, models and other artifacts to convey design solutions for the projects assigned. It will be in the studio, through design proposals, that the student will assimilate the knowledge and skills acquired through other courses.

The studio will emphasize iteration and process. It will require the student to develop a dialogue between critical thinking skills and an intuitive making practice. The student will learn to look at the built environment and the natural environment as resources for design solutions and to begin a practice of making that is inspired by observed conditions.

Goals and Objectives
•To understand and design with the basic principles of structure and tectonics
•To understand and design with the basic principles of horticulture and vegetation management and conservation
•To understand and design with abstract and actual representations of site
•To understand, design, and negotiate program elements within specific site conditions
•To understand and design in scale and to develop concepts for ordering information and three-dimensional space