Landscape Architecture
Master of Landscape Architecture
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Campus address: Goldsmith Hall (GOL 2.308), phone (512) 471-1922, fax (512) 471-0716; campus mail code: B7500
Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, 310 Inner Campus Drive B7500, Austin TX 78712-1009
E-mail: soa_grad@austin.utexas.edu
Facilities for Graduate Work
Facilities for the study of landscape architecture are centrally located on campus in three adjacent and historically significant buildings: Battle Hall (1911) and Sutton Hall (1918, renovated in 1982), designed by the distinguished American architect Cass Gilbert; and Goldsmith Hall (1933, expanded and renovated in 1988), designed by noted French architect Paul Philippe Cret, one of the planners of the original forty-acre campus.
The program has a close working relationship with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
The Architecture and Planning Library, a branch of the University Libraries, maintains more than 84,000 volumes, including bound periodicals, professional reports, and all major architecture, landscape architecture, and planning journals. The materials cover the history and theories of landscape architecture, particularly from antiquity through mid–twentieth-century modernism. The collections of the nearby Harry Ransom Center include a large number of rare platebooks and maps covering the history of landscape architecture, including the classics of landscape architectural literature. The Blanton Museum contains many major works of art that pertain to the history of landscape architecture, from Renaissance paintings to current works.
The School of Architecture’s Visual Resources Collection contains audiovisual equipment, technical and design reference material, and more than 240,000 photographic slides and 73,000 digital images of architectural and related works. The collection is acquiring materials that cover the history of landscape architecture, with an emphasis on contemporary design.
The Center for American Architecture and Design provides support and resources for the scholarly study of American architecture. Through lectures, exhibitions, seminars, symposia, fellowship support, and the collection of research materials, the center encourages a community of architecture and landscape scholarship. The Center for Sustainable Development undertakes theoretical and applied research and projects related to sustainable systems, including land, infrastructure, and new urban growth. Other programs undertake community-based projects and provide a forum for landscape architecture faculty members and students to be involved in community service. Other campus facilities with resources for the study of landscape architecture include the Charles W. Moore Room, the Benson Latin American Collection, the Fine Arts Library, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
Computer-aided design and research opportunities are provided by the School of Architecture’s computer laboratory, which maintains microcomputer equipment and terminals interfaced with the extensive computing facilities of Information Technology Services. Winedale, a museum of cultural history housed in restored nineteenth-century Texas buildings eighty miles east of Austin, provides in-residence research opportunities in Texas architectural history, preservation, and restoration. The resources of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Benson Latin American Collection and the proximity of Austin to Latin America provide exceptional opportunities for the study of Latin American architecture and landscape architecture.
Areas of Study
The Master of Landscape Architecture, first professional degree, is a professional degree program for students who do not have a background in landscape architecture or an LAAB-accredited degree in landscape architecture.
The Master of Landscape Architecture, postprofessional degree, is a postprofessional degree program for students who hold an LAAB-accredited degree in landscape architecture.
Graduate Studies Committee
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.
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Dean J Almy Miroslava M Benes Hope Hasbrouck David D Heymann |
Allan W Shearer Jason S Sowell Frederick R Steiner |
Admission Requirements
Upon admission to the program, the student must pay a nonrefundable enrollment deposit to indicate that he or she accepts the offer of admission. The deposit is applied to the payment of tuition when the student enrolls.
Master of Landscape Architecture (first professional). This degree program is open to qualified applicants who hold baccalaureate degrees in any discipline. Applicants with an accredited professional degree in architecture may be eligible for admission with advanced standing. Applicants with a nonaccredited preprofessional degree in architecture, landscape architecture, or environmental design may also be granted advanced standing. Prerequisites include at least one three-semester-hour course in basic ecology or the equivalent.
Those who qualify are generally granted advanced standing of up to one or two terms, subject to review by the admissions committee. Students may be able to waive degree requirements by a petition process and by demonstrating equivalent study in any of the required course areas.
Master of Landscape Architecture (postprofessional). This degree program is open to qualified applicants who hold accredited professional degrees in landscape architecture.