Landscape Architecture

Abstract

<p>Landscape Architecture is an environmental design discipline. Landscape architects actively shape the human environment: they map, interpret, imagine, draw, build, conceptualize, synthesize, and project ideas that transform landscapes. The design process involves creative expression that derives from an understanding of the context of site (or landscape) ecosystems, cultural frameworks, functional systems, and social dynamics. Students in our program learn to change the world around them by re-imagining and re-shaping the landscape to enhance its aesthetic and functional dimensions, ecological health, cultural significance, and social relevance.</p> <p><b>History</b><br /> The Department of Landscape Architecture was established as a department in the Division of Agriculture in 1929. In 1975, the department's name was changed to the Department of Landscape Architecture and Community Planning. In 1978, community planning was spun off from the department, and the Department of Landscape Architecture became part of the newly established College of Design.</p> <p><b>Dates of Existence</b><br />1929–present</p> <p><b>Historical Names</b><br /> <ul><li>Department of Landscape Architecture and Community Planning (1975–1978)</li></ul></p> <p><b>Related Units</b><br /> <ul><li><a href="http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ag/">College of Agriculture</a> (<i>previous college</i>, 1929–1978)</li></ul></p>