The first core design studio focuses on ways of exploring, recording, and representing landscape—with an emphasis on material, space, time, and measure—through a range of physical engagements, drawings, and constructions. Students then use these explorations to re-imagine a transformed set of spatial and temporal conditions. Design work bridges digital and analog methods to establish and build hybrid forms of representation and making intended to capture the unique qualities of the landscape. Studio projects evolve through the coupling of site experiences and representational strategies that document and explore those experiences, lessons learned through precedent studies, and formal and conceptual exercises intended to develop new ways of seeing the landscape. Students explore and develop landscape-based skills that characterize and expand the discipline of landscape architecture as a valuable contributor in the entangled cultural, ecological, and political dialogues of our spatial world.
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