Landscape Architecture

Rendering of a swamped landscape with huge geodesic dome with mountains in the background
Cin Yee Selina Cheah (MLA’22, CPLN’22), Nuoran Chen (MLA’22), and Larissa Whitney (MLA’22), from Studio VI: Pietrusko, Spring 2022
View Slideshow
Close
Previous
Next
Rendering of a swamped landscape with huge geodesic dome with mountains in the background
Composite of eight images which could be abstract but resemble soil and ice
Rendering of a field of sunflowers with a woman in a hat walking away and bluejay flying above
Transect drawing of a forest showing position and scale of trees and plants
Group of people in hardhats viewing a mechanical device with huge bales of straw
Rendering of aerial view of two designs, one with curved elements, the other with straight
Composite of four complex aerial renderings
Rendering with diagram showing development along a river
Cin Yee Selina Cheah (MLA’22, CPLN’22), Nuoran Chen (MLA’22), and Larissa Whitney (MLA’22), from Studio VI: Pietrusko, Spring 2022
Mrinalini Verma (MLA’21, MSD-EBD’21), from Studio V: M’Closkey, Fall 2021
Zicheng Zhao (MLA’24), from Studio II: M’Closkey, Spring 2022
Weijing Wang (MLA’24), from Studio I: Burkholder, Fall 2021
Yijia Xu (MLA’22), Zhimin Ma (MLA’22), from Studio III: Neises, Fall 2021
Rohan Lewis (MLA’22), from Studio V: M’Closkey, Fall 2021
Aaron Stone (MArch’21, MLA’21), from independent thesis: Burkholder / Fierro, Spring 2021
Rohan Lewis (MLA’22), Elliot Bullen (MLA’23), from Studio III: Neises, Fall 2021

The Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is recognized internationally for its innovative ecological approach to the design of landscapes, public works, public spaces, and infrastructures. Ecology addresses the rich and entangled web of everyday environmental relationships between living things—humans, plants, and animals—as well as the mineral world. The Department’s faculty and students continue to advance the landscape discipline through design research at multiple scales, from seeds to systems, from urban to rural, and from a multiplicity of positions. A diversity of ecological approaches to our planet’s many natures and cultures is necessary to address the ongoing climate crisis as we work toward both decarbonization and reparative social and environmental justice. Landscape architecture has the capacity to change the earth; we are world-builders equipped with design imagination.

Read a letter from the Chair

Degree Programs

MLA Master of Landscape Architecture
All degrees and certificates at Weitzman
An introduction to Landscape Architecture

Hear what our students have to say about the program in a video directed and edited by alum Joanna Karaman (BA'12, MArch'15, MLA'15) for Weitzman Admissions.

Still from the video showing people sitting on plaza play icon

Work

LA+ logo with different colors for the plus sign LA+ Cover for publication, "Landscapes in Process" edition 27, 2022-23 Landscapes in Process

The latest in Landscape Architecture

Events

View all events

News

View all news
Go Deeper

Explore Landscapes in Process, the Department of Landscape Architecture's annual publication of work undertaken in design studios, lectures and seminars as well as student awards and faculty news.

Landscapes in Process 27 cover play icon

Dual degrees

Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of City Planning Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of Fine Arts Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of Science in Historic Preservation Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of Science in Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of Science in Design: Environmental Building Design

The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology

In the spirit of Ian McHarg’s renowned philosophy for “designing with nature,” The Center’s mission is to build on the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s position as a global leader in urban ecological design by bringing environmental and social scientists together with planners, designers, policy-makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. 
 

Visit The McHarg Center

You might be interested in . . .

Accreditation Undergraduate Minor History of Landscape Architecture at Penn Recommended Reading Faculty Publications