See what our landscape architecture students have been creating.
The portfolios below represent work completed in the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture’s graduate and undergraduate design studios. Portfolios are arranged by course number; filter by year of study to see how studios increase in complexity as students progress through the program.
LA 4501 Historic Preservation and Commemoration in the Built Environment
This course broadly covers the history, theory, and practices of historic preservation, with a particular focus on the historical geographies of the American South. Students explore how to identify, investigate, and give voice to…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7044 Landscape Technology IV: Construction Documents, Details, Materials, and Design/Building
Putting it all together: this course gives students the opportunity of learning what are the components and graphic systems involved in putting together a set of construction documents (CD’s). Using a document developed by…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 3002 Community Design: Senior Living Facility
Valley Drive Senior and Assisted Living Community Design Exploration through the application of process oriented design informed by readings, precedence and field observations/analysis to explore different approaches to site design towards formulating your own…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7041 Urban Systems Studio
The objectives of the LA 7041 Urban Systems studio course are to expose students to urban issues related to the contemporary practice of landscape architecture based on the following: the premise of the city as…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 1101 Landscape Representation I
Landscape Representation I is the foundations design studio for first-year landscape architecture students. The studio fosters the practice of discipline, craftsmanship, and intellectual skills through the development of drawing and making through the iterative…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 1102 Landscape Representation II
Landscape Representation II is the second foundations design studio for first-year landscape architecture students. The studio provides a foundational familiarity with methods, media, and the common tools in the discipline of landscape architecture. The…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 2001 Landscape Design I
Landscape Design I: Reading the Landscape develops/exercises students’ understanding of basic concepts, elements, and processes in landscape spatial design, using physical sites as a basis for qualitative observation, quantitative analysis/measure, and creative manipulation/abstraction. Through…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 2002 Landscape Design II
In the second-year landscape design studio, students develop landscape design processes as applied to small-scale projects. Students are introduced to earth structures, construction materials, and plants.
Launch Photo GalleryLA 2002 Landscape Design II: Site Design
Landscape Design II focuses on the structure, scale, proportion, materiality, and performance of discrete site/garden-scale public landscapes, using representation and measured drawing as tools for design and exploration and introducing more intensive research and…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 3001 Landscape Design III: Shifting Sands
In the third-year landscape design studio, students learn to consider the arrangement of buildings, circulation, and other landscape design elements. Studio topics emphasize earthwork and drainage. The fall 2013 “Shifting Sands” studio explored site…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 3001 Landscape Design III: Calumet Crossing
Landscape Design III is the third-year landscape architecture studio in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program at ϳԹ. The fall 2015 studio explored site design strategies for a wildlife crossing in Calumet, Louisiana. In…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 3002 Landscape Design IV: Site Design
Landscape Design IV explores the application of process-oriented design, using writing to explore different approaches of design toward formulating a design philosophy and integrating haptic (hand-drawing) and digital techniques for presentation of visual communication….
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4001 Landscape Design V
The fourth-year landscape design studio focuses on landscape planning and design from the regional to the site-development scale. The studio places emphasis on generating planning and design strategies for urbanization and development that are…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4001 Landscape Design V: Research-Based Therapeutic Landscape Design
Taking advantage of the visiting instructor’s status as an evidence-based healthcare garden design specialist, the fall 2015 studio taught by Marie M. Bickham Chair Kathleen Bogaski focused on the physical, psychological, perceptual, and cultural…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4008 Advanced Topics Studio: Agri>Coastal
Using a telescopic approach to research and design, the aim of the Agri>Coastal studio was to develop scenarios, typologies, and generative spatial principals to restore nutrient balance in the Mississippi River Basin. Every summer,…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4008 Advanced Topics Studio: Synthetic Urban Ecologies
The fall 2013 “Synthetic Urban Ecologies” advanced topics studio emphasized site-specific urban and industrial influenced ecological systems. Students were charged to develop divisive interventions for the Port of Oakland, Oakland Army Base, and neighboring…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4008 Advanced Topics Studio: Biloxi Beachfront Reimagined
The site for the fall 2013 “Biloxi Beachfront Reimagined” advanced topics studio was the main beachfront in Biloxi, Mississippi, which has been highly modified by coastal engineering, development on the dune system, and the…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4008 Advanced Topics Studio: Exploration in New Territories
Students enrolled in the fall 2013 “Culture and Design: Exploration in New Territories” advanced topics studio had a choice of two projects and locations. Each group had the opportunity to travel to their project…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 4101 Advanced Digital Representation
In the advanced digital representation course, students learn advanced techniques in digital representation, such as three-dimensional modeling, terrain modeling, animation, and advanced imaging and rendering.
Launch Photo GalleryLA 5002 Landscape Design VIII: Capstone Project (Spring 2016)
The fifth-year landscape design studio is centered on the intensive development of a comprehensive landscape design and/or an independent design project. This studio is referred to as the “Capstone Project,” as it requires students…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 5002 Landscape Design VIII: Capstone Project (Spring 2013)
The fifth-year landscape design studio is centered on the intensive development of a comprehensive landscape design and/or an independent design project. This studio is referred to as the “Capstone Project,” as it requires students…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7011 Graduate Landscape Design I (Fall 2014)
Graduate Landscape Design I begins a four-semester set of studios that build sequentially in scale, complexity, and theoretical content. The first studio investigates issues of scale, terrain, composition, vegetation, and varied dynamic processes that…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7021 Graduate Landscape Design II: Site Design (Spring 2013)
The graduate site design studio focuses on the arrangement of buildings, circulation, and other landscape design elements, placing emphasis on earthwork and drainage. In the spring 2013 studio, students proposed memorials and site plans…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7021 Graduate Landscape Design II: Site Systems (Spring 2016)
Site Systems is the second design studio for first-year Master of Landscape Architecture students. The studio curriculum is comprised of two different projects, which are pursued in tandem with examinations of various theories and…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7031 Graduate Landscape Design III: Community Design (Fall 2011)
The graduate community design studio focuses on landscape planning and design at the community and neighborhood scale, emphasizing relationships of uses, transportation and infrastructure, green infrastructure, public services, and a mix of housing and…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7031 Graduate Landscape Design III: Water Studio (Fall 2013 & 2014)
The graduate community design studio focuses on landscape planning and design at the community and neighborhood scale, emphasizing relationships of uses, transportation and infrastructure, green infrastructure, public services, and a mix of housing and commercial…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7031 Graduate Landscape Design III: Stormwater Management (Fall 2016)
Through a progressive series of interrelated weekly readings, lectures, design exercises, field trips, and guest lectures, students in Marie M. Bickham Chair Kathleen Bogaski’s fall 2016 graduate landscape design studio explored water systems management…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7041 Graduate Landscape Design IV: Urban Systems (Spring 2015)
The Urban Systems studio explores different design approaches to developing urban parks and open-space systems in cities. Urban scale analysis of open-space systems and their conditions is conducted, resulting in an open-space strategy for…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7061 Site Systems Studio (Fall 2014)
This advanced graduate design studio aims to establish a site plan for the newly appointed World Heritage Site, Poverty Point Louisiana, in the Mississippi River Corridor. The studio considered impacts of intervention on this…
Launch Photo GalleryLA 7061 Advanced Topics Studio: Baton Rouge Zoo (Spring 2016)
Third-year Master of Landscape Architecture students in Associate Professor Austin Allen’s advanced topic studio worked with the North Baton Rouge community and the adjacent city of Baker to reimagine the Baton Rouge Zoo. Keeping…
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