ACH 116 - Landscape Architecture: System and Design

4 credit hours - One hour lecture and six hours of laboratory weekly; one term.
Examine the diverse topics that inform landscape architectural designs. Study the behavioral, environmental and aesthetic principals used to shape the design and use of outdoor spaces. Learn graphic methods to analyze multiple landscape typologies and the plant material used in landscape design. Illustrate landscape design solutions using various industry techniques. Lab fee $20.

Prerequisite(s): ACH 111 or permission of department chair.

Note: Typically offered OL; fall term.

Course Outcomes:

Analyze Landscape Architecture responsibilities
- Identify architectural design principals
- Diagram architectural organization types
- Identify natural systems
- Inventory user needs and desires
- Compare design programs and landscape resources
Evaluate landscape designs
- Identify landscape typologies
- Contrast classic and contemporary landscape designs
- Diagram built environment with outdoor spaces
- Assess sustainability of landscapes
Develop planting design skills
- List plant species design characteristics
- Identify desired planting functions in landscape design
- Evaluate appropriateness plant species for design
- Construct planting designs
Incorporate illustrative techniques to communicate landscape designs
- Acquire illustrative skills and techniques
- Assess applications for illustrative techniques
- Develop graphic code for diagramming
- Identify landscape architecture drawings used in the design industry
- Compile various imagery and drawing types for presentation
- Explain project information formally to others
Develop Landscape details
- Evaluate use of materials, form, details and composition
- Assemble standard planting details
- Identify surface types to be detailed
- Draw typical landscape construction details
Produce Landscape Architecture construction drawings
- Assemble planting list
- Compile landscape details
- Identify dimensional conventions for outdoor designs
- Callout key landscape design features
- Construct a master plan