Landscape Architecture

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Landscape Architecture
How to Apply

The Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin engages ecological, social, and sensory dimensions of the built environment to create resilient, equitable, and vibrant places in our rapidly changing world. Our professional and post-professional curricula bring together theories to comprehend landscapes in their specific contexts, methods to understand the effects of possible change, and practices to enable design-based action.

OUR OBJECT IS LANDSCAPE

  • When we think about landscape, we think about interrelationships.
  • Landscape is perceived through interrelationships between self and site.
  • Landscape is understood through interrelationships between performance and appearance.
  • Landscape is evolved though interrelationships between biophysical processes and social practices.

OUR INVOLVEMENT IS DESIGN

  • When we think about design, we think about positive, informed, and inclusive change.
  • Design motives stem from ambitions to improve current conditions.
  • Design thinking combines analysis and composition to comprehend, critique, and respond to complex conditions.
  • Design agency is advanced by diverse community engagement, reflective practices, and rigorous research.

OUR CONTRIBUTION IS IMPROVING THE PUBLIC REALM

  • When we think about how we contribute as professionals and as members of our communities, we think about the public realm.
  • The designed public landscape provides ecosystem services and civic infrastructure.
  • The designed public landscape promotes personal well-being and social benefit.
  • The designed public landscape becomes meaningful by being purposeful, responsible, and lasting.

Landscape Architecture

DEGREES + PROGRAMS

The Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Texas as Austin offers two graduate-level degree programs and a minor in landscape studies at the undergraduate level. 

GRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE

Master of Landscape Architecture, First Professional

Master of Landscape Architecture, Post-Professional

Landscape Studies Minor
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    Hook’em Kevin! Posted @withregram • @kjsag24 So nice to have a proclamation from your employer and community recognizing your profession in #landscapearchitecture Even better when you work along side such a #diverse group of colleagues.
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    Hook’em Kevin! Posted @withregram • @kjsag24 So nice to have a proclamation from your employer and community recognizing your profession in #landscapearchitecture Even better when you work along side such a #diverse group of colleagues.

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    Posted @withregram • @utsoa We are excited to announce the school’s 2023 commencement speaker: alumnus and landscape architect Everett L. Fly!<br />
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    Posted @withregram • @utsoa We are excited to announce the school’s 2023 commencement speaker: alumnus and landscape architect Everett L. Fly!

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    When you study #landscapearchitecture in #ATX @UTSOA. @waterloogreenway and #waterloopark by @mvva.inc is your laboratory (including the slide!)
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    When you study #landscapearchitecture in #ATX @UTSOA. @waterloogreenway and #waterloopark by @mvva.inc is your laboratory (including the slide!)

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    Thank you @taryarterburn and @studiooutside for working with our Second-semester students this February! Posted @withregram • @taryarterburn “QUILTED LANDSCAPE”. by Sam Blum. UTSOA Landscape class this afternoon. Midterm presentation to esteemed Jurors Allan Shearer and Dean Almy.
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    Thank you @taryarterburn and @studiooutside for working with our Second-semester students this February! Posted @withregram • @taryarterburn “QUILTED LANDSCAPE”. by Sam Blum. UTSOA Landscape class this afternoon. Midterm presentation to esteemed Jurors Allan Shearer and Dean Almy.

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    Posted @withregram • @utaustintx It’s starting to look like spring on the Forty Acres 🤘🌸
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    Posted @withregram • @utaustintx It’s starting to look like spring on the Forty Acres 🤘🌸

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    #LandscapeArchitecture -Studio II StudentWork: Precedent studies for the Austin Brain Health Hospital Campus Project
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    #LandscapeArchitecture -Studio II StudentWork: Precedent studies for the Austin Brain Health Hospital Campus Project

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    Led by Meadows Foundation Centennial Fellow Maggie Hansen and hosted by the Center for American Architecture and Design, the symposium will explore a range of landscape-led projects that show the importance of design as a tool for starting and continuously tending to a dialogue about a site's shared
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    Led by Meadows Foundation Centennial Fellow Maggie Hansen and hosted by the Center for American Architecture and Design, the symposium will explore a range of landscape-led projects that show the importance of design as a tool for starting and continuously tending to a dialogue about a site's shared

  • Instagram Post
    Led by Meadows Foundation Centennial Fellow Maggie Hansen and hosted by the Center for American Architecture and Design, the symposium will explore a range of landscape-led projects that show the importance of design as a tool for starting and continuously tending to a dialogue about a site's shared
    @texas.landscape

    Led by Meadows Foundation Centennial Fellow Maggie Hansen and hosted by the Center for American Architecture and Design, the symposium will explore a range of landscape-led projects that show the importance of design as a tool for starting and continuously tending to a dialogue about a site's shared

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    I spy a UT Faculty Member!! Posted @withregram • @waterloogreenway Thank you to everyone who lent a helping hand at our first Spring Park Prep workshop yesterday!
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    I spy a UT Faculty Member!! Posted @withregram • @waterloogreenway Thank you to everyone who lent a helping hand at our first Spring Park Prep workshop yesterday!