Oct 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

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.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Online (OL)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Analyze Landscape Architecture responsibilities.
  2. Evaluate landscape designs.
  3. Develop planting design skills.
  4. Incorporate illustrative techniques to communicate landscape designs.
  5. Develop Landscape details.
  6. Produce Landscape Architecture construction drawings.