Landscape Architecture

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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 IS A STEM DISCIPLINE

Three people sit on a rocky ledge beside a clear, green creek surrounded by trees. One sketches in a notebook, while the others relax and look at the water under bright sunlight.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s designation of landscape architecture as a STEM discipline recognizes the high degree of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics inherent in the education and practice of landscape architecture.

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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 Science in Landscape Architecture	Landscape Studies Minor

GRADUATE

UNDERGRADUATE

Master of Landscape Architecture, First Professional

Master of Science in Landscape Architecture

Landscape Studies Minor

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WORK

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Illustration of a vibrant, tree-lined street with colorful flowers on both sides. People walk, cycle, and interact, including a child learning to ride a bike. The sky is blue and text reads: “Suturing the Community: Spacial Justice for Sobrante Park.”.

A diagram shows a dynamic regenerative water infrastructure system near Weller Creek, featuring a landscaped area with trees and paths, water flow patterns, and a conveyance system capturing stormwater before it enters the creek.

Three grayscale landscape images with green overlays show coastal adaptation strategies: a vegetated levee, a tidal marsh, and an accommodation area, each highlighted with circular map insets.

An infographic titled “Collective Recollection” about Dallas’ Freedman Community features historical maps, timelines, diagrams of community life, and comparisons of land use, self-sufficiency, and current vacancy conditions.

A suspended, futuristic architectural model made of layered, circular components and transparent structures hangs by thin wires against a plain, light gray background.

A 3D map of a city highlighting a proposed network of green spaces and developments connecting an area labeled “Interbay Stitch.” Title and authors appear at the bottom.

A grayscale map titled Engineered Geology Plan shows Scarborough Pond, surrounding woods, meadows, a creek, roads, and structures. Highlighted yellow bars indicate proposed boardwalks and a land bridge over the pond and stream.

In this rendering, two people walk along a rocky, tree-lined path beside a stream in a park. One person in the foreground wears a yellow shirt and shorts, and another walks farther back. Sunlight filters through green trees.

Black and white site plan showing outlined parcels, tree clusters, water features, and shaded green areas indicating developed zones, pathways, and roads connecting different sections of the landscape. North arrow at bottom right.

A series of diagrams showing landscape planning phases along a river, with different tree and land use zones marked. Below, two diagrams illustrate tree planting progress over 10 years and resulting tree growth and habitat zones.

A map shows proposed park connections with radial lines linking central points to parks. Two inset aerial views on the right illustrate these new green pathways overlaying an urban area.

A person walks along a winding path in this digital rendering surrounded by lush green trees and tall grass under bright sunlight. Text in the lower left corner reads HILL COUNTRY CORRIDOR.

A landscape design diagram shows four zones—mountain, canopy, grass, and water—each illustrated with abstract overlays, large poppy flowers, people, and labeled features, blending botanical and magical realism in a conceptual layout.

Two renderings of a landscaped urban plaza with trees, pathways, and garden beds; one view is at ground level, the other is an aerial perspective showing people walking and cycling.

A site plan titled Procession at Pamphilj showing a large garden layout with green spaces, paths, a pond, key areas marked, a grazing plan, a location map, and a sketch of a person surveying the landscape in the foreground.

A black-and-white rendering of a paved courtyard surrounded by large buildings, trees, and grass. A few people are walking or sitting on benches, and a playground structure is visible near the center background.

In this rendering, people walk along a wooden deck and paved plaza surrounded by lush green trees and gardens; a modern pavilion and water fountain jets are visible in the background.

A digital rendering of a serene park with green lawns, trees, and flowering bushes. Silhouetted figures walk on pathways. In the background, a golden-roofed pagoda and a white stupa stand under a pink and blue sky.

Digital rendering of a lush green park with trees and a pond in the foreground, while a modern city skyline with tall skyscrapers and blue sky with wispy clouds stretches across the background.

A 3D architectural rendering shows a large urban area with buildings and streets, featuring a central green park space filled with trees, pathways, and open lawns surrounded by various structures.

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We’re highlighting Professional Electives for Spring 2027. Mirka Benes is offering “Representing Landscape 1500-2015.”
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A glimpse into the work of Rachel Phipps, Landscape Architecture, Spring 2026 graduate, from the Brooklyn Studio led by Professor Dean Almy.
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Applications are now open for 2027–2028 in Landscape Architecture at UT Austin!

Join a community of designers, thinkers, and scholars committed to ecological resilience, creative exploration, and spatial design.
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Our Alumni Q&A Series continues with class of 2019 graduate, Katie Dictus!

Q: What projects are you currently working on?
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Highlights from Associate Professor Phoebe Lickwar’s Fall 2026 Studio Trip to Rome!
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Congratulations to Rachel Phipps, third year MLA student and soon-to-be-graduate, on these well-deserved fellowships!
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Earlier this month, third-year MLA student Natalie Kroger traveled to Brooklyn as part of her advanced studio research. She shares reflections from the studio alongside images from the trip:
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The Studio II Shadow Box Project both explores and documents the human-to-landscape condition through #section and depth. The three conditions of field, edge, and interior, and the sensations of exposure, asymmetry, and enclosure are condensed and presented in a shadow box.