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UPM-723 Landscape Architecture and Place

3 Credits

  • UPM-723-01

    Wednesday

    5:00 pm – 7:50 pm

    Higgins Hall Center, 016

This course examines the role that landscape architecture plays in public space and the elements that comprise the design palette of landscape architecture. The course first addresses the use of plant materials (softscape) by examining plant forms, general characteristics, and physical requirements. The course then addresses hardscape elements of the landscape, including the use of water as ornament, the ground plane, lighting, furnishings, and structures. The discussion of hardscape highlights use, aesthetic, construction, and maintenance considerations. The final part of the course addresses the composite landscape, in which hard and softscape elements are synthesized.