Landscape Architecture

Intervention perspective image by Kelvin Vu
Kelvin Vu (MArch’24, MLA’24)
Fangyuan Sheng and Mingyang Sun 2020 overview
Fangyuan Sheng (MLA’21) and Mingyang Sun (MLA’21)
Yiru Wang and Yun Wang
Yiru Wang (MLA’21) and Yun Wang (MLA’21)
Qinghong Xu aerial image
Qinghong Xu (MLA’21)
Aaron Stone
Aaron Stone (MArch’21, MLA’21)
Young people making observations in a grassy prairie
LARP students at Valley Forge National Historic Park (Photo: Sally Willig)
Young people seated inside a colorfully painted bus
LARP students in Columbia for studio (Photo: Ishaan Kumar [MLA'17])
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Intervention perspective image by Kelvin Vu
Fangyuan Sheng and Mingyang Sun 2020 overview
Yiru Wang and Yun Wang
Qinghong Xu aerial image
Aaron Stone
Young people making observations in a grassy prairie
Young people seated inside a colorfully painted bus
Kelvin Vu (MArch’24, MLA’24)
Fangyuan Sheng (MLA’21) and Mingyang Sun (MLA’21)
Yiru Wang (MLA’21) and Yun Wang (MLA’21)
Qinghong Xu (MLA’21)
Aaron Stone (MArch’21, MLA’21)
LARP students at Valley Forge National Historic Park (Photo: Sally Willig)
LARP students in Columbia for studio (Photo: Ishaan Kumar [MLA'17])

Initially established in 1924 and later revitalized under the leadership of Professor Ian McHarg in the 1960s, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning is recognized around the world for its pioneering contributions to ecological planning and design. Today, the Department advances this legacy through its commitment to innovative design as informed by ecology, the history of ideas, techniques of construction, new media, and contemporary urbanism. The work of both faculty and students reflects the ambitious character and intense design focus of the Department, and continues to be deeply influential internationally. Rapidly changing social and cultural conditions around the world require that future professionals will be able to respond with new concepts, forms and methods of realizing projects, and it is to the global future that we look.

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MLA Master of Landscape Architecture
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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.

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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. 
 

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