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Landscape as Performance: TMITBD, an independent design studio exploring Three Mile Island, by Kelvin Vu MLA’25. Photo by Chaowu Li MLA’25.
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Landscape as Performance: TMITBD, an independent design studio exploring Three Mile Island, by Kelvin Vu MLA’25. Photo by Chaowu Li MLA’25.

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.

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An image of Catherine Seavitt wearing a yellow button down with a brown pattern, against a white background Catherine Seavitt Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture // Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism // Faculty Co-Director, The McHarg Center // Creative Director of LA+ Journal a black and white image of Karen M'closkey wearing small square framed galsses smiling over her right sholder toward the camera Karen M'Closkey Associate Professor // Editor in Chief, LA+ Headshot of Chris Marcinkoski Christopher Marcinkoski Associate Professor sean burkholder Sean Burkholder Associate Professor azzurra is smiling in a blue button down shirt in front of a light blue backdrop Azzurra Cox Assistant Professor Nicholas Pevzner against red brick wall background, looking into camera Nicholas Pevzner Assistant Professor Black and white photograph of Robert Gerard Pietrusko Robert Gerard Pietrusko Associate Professor an image of Jessica Varner in a sriped buttonup top in front of a green shrub background Jessica Varner Assistant Professor a black and white image of Michelle Delk Michelle Delk Laurie Olin Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture
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McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology Cover for publication, "Landscapes in Process" edition 28, 2023-24 Landscapes in Process Image of LA+ journals (spines) LA+ Journal

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New Perspectives on Landscape

Perspectives, a new essay series from The McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology, surveys issues in landscape architecture, from the role of plants in making a nation to the challenges for public realm projects.

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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.

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Recent Student Work

Seated performer with projected video overlay Urban Opera Complex illustration with mound of dirt and spiral construction Come Love the Waters: Dreams for a Poisoned River (Remediation of the lower Hackensack River) Complex rendering with people working in a lake Studio+: Dakar Greenbelt Connecting Ecologies map The Ciudad de Panama Studio: Connecting Ecologies Woman seated in cavelike structure By Maura McDaniel The Big O: Designing Speculative Pasts, Imagining Lacustrine Futures Speculative rendering of world's oceans By Wing Man (Melanie) Chu Conspiracy as Method: Design Narratives of Environmental Governance
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Dual Degrees, Certificates, and Undergraduate Minor

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 Master of Landscape Architecture + Master of Urban Spatial Analytics Certificates Undergraduate Minor