![]() We aim to cultivate the passions and individual insights of students while preparing them with the conceptual and technical tools to work across disciplinary boundaries, with human and non-human communities, to help make a more inclusive and resilient world. Collectively, we promote a broad perspective on socio-ecological contexts, innovation and tradition, inter-species articulation, cultural and artistic expression, ecological health, and the challenges of living in a rapidly changing environment.įrom the time students enter their studies, they are encouraged to shape their own individual educational trajectories by integrating their design or non-design undergraduate backgrounds, intellectual interests, and skills into their studies in landscape architecture. As internationally recognized academics and practitioners, the Landscape Architecture Faculty at UVA present varied perspectives, skills and expertise. In this design approach we emphasize issues of ecology, social and environmental health, technology, and cultural expression. The next generation of practitioners, scholars, and educators are facing important problems and challenges. Landscape Architecture at UVA strives to educate and inspire the next generation of landscape architecture leaders. As a department we develop innovative ideas, critical perspectives, synthetic frameworks, and new techniques to address landscape problems through design across a broad range of contexts and scales, from the garden to the region. Our end is always action, so we build the know-how needed to get to it.The field of Landscape Architecture is rapidly evolving to address and redress contemporary environmental and societal issues. We believe in the value of repetition: we do, we reflect, we repeat. We aim to be curious, resourceful, precise, and attentive. ![]() The attitudes we cultivate are at the core of who we are. We spend time getting to know the landscapes where we work-we jump in and we get our hands and boots dirty. We are optimistic that landscape architecture can bring real value to these situations, that we can help imagine and build the landscapes of futures that people - in Alabama, in the United States, around the world - will want to live in. We champion underdog landscapes: places that are undervalued, overlooked, and unappreciated. Grounded in the landscapes of our home state of Alabama, we focus our attention on places where these issues are prominently felt: post-industrial cities, infrastructural landscapes, rural landscapes, and coasts. We aim to be both humble enough to admit that we cannot solve these issues on our own and confident enough to tackle them head-on, working with collaborators, partners, and communities. Too often, these issues are oversimplified, reduced to dualities that offer easy answers, papering over richness, complexity, and messiness. We focus our attention on places where issues like climate dynamics, poverty, and the spatial legacies of racial inequity manifest. The world is already being designed, we just believe that it could be better if the vision, imagination, and practical knowledge of landscape architecture are involved. ![]() ![]() Human impact is inescapable: scientists describe our current age as the ‘Anthropocene’, which literally means the “age of humanity,” because the collective impacts of our civilization on our planet are so broad and pervasive. These choices are design choices, even when they are not made by designers. ![]() From forests that are grown and cut to provide timber, to cities dealing with legacies of declining heavy industries, to the streets of new suburbs, our world and our landscapes are shaped by the choices people make. We are motivated by the recognition that design is already everywhere around us. ![]()
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