Landscaping & Architectural Design

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE:
The landscape architecture curriculum prepares students for professional careers dedicated to planning, designing and managing landscapes essential to the well-being of a healthy society and natural environment. The curriculum is structured to help students develop the talents, knowledge and skills necessary to address human and societal needs within a broad range of project types and environmental scales.
Degree options are available for landscape architecture students interested in graduate study in the fields of business and city and regional planning.
The five-year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree program has a strong environmental analysis and design core based upon a foundation of courses in the arts, sciences and humanities. Often engaging in real projects, students have opportunities to experience sites and clients with relevant contemporary issues and problems. Areas of study and investigation include:

  • graphics and visual communication
  • landscape history and theory
  • landscape construction
  • professional practice
  • human values and environmental sensitivity
  • technology - use and integration
  • applied sciences
  • landscape analysis, assessment and planning
  • site planning and design
  • urban and community design
  • landscape ecology

Students develop professional teamwork and interdisciplinary practice skills through team teaching, student teamwork and collaboration with other disciplines within the CAED and Cal Poly. Students develop a global perspective of the profession through opportunities for international study and travel as well as the ongoing integration of multicultural and diverse environmental issues in course work.
2011 PHC team members that are a part of the Landscape Architecture department are Yesenia Fernandez and Andrew Nowak.
 
ARCHITECTURE:
An estimated one in 20 architects in the country are Cal Poly graduates, as are one in five in California. The architecture program is structured to develop and advance the design and technical skills that, coupled with studies in the humanities and communication, prepare students for entry into the profession's vast world of opportunities. As a social art, architecture is a highly regarded profession in America today and there are myriad career choices within its domain.
Graduates find success not only in the customary roles for design and construction, but also in fields that vary from media animation to manufacturing and from corporate facility management to ecology.
Because opportunities in architecture are multi-faceted, the program is intentionally broad - a rich educational foundation from which to design one's role in today's complex world. No other college offers so much direct exposure to the other disciplines in the planning, design and construction industry. This occurs through interaction and joint projects among and within the CAED's five departments.
While holistic in scope, the architecture program offers areas of special focus, culminating in an exit-year project that encourages individuality, specialization and technical expertise. The five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree program is accredited by the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) and is the first professional degree leading to professional registration as an architect.
The curriculum comprises four, mutually reinforcing sequences of courses:

  • Design: Taught in highly interactive studios with relevant practice courses concurrently scheduled
  • Graphic Communication: Skills and abilities essential in today's marketplace
  • Architectural Practice that addresses materials, construction and, as Cal Poly's signature, learn-by-doing experiences
  • Math, Physics, Structural Engineering, Architectural Science, History, Computer Applications, Theory and Criticism, and Professional Electives

A Master of Science in Architecture graduate degree program is available for students interested in advanced study in the broad field of architecture and environmental design.
A further degree option for graduate study is offered in cooperation with Cal Poly's College of Business - undergraduate architecture students in their fifth year may elect to begin a Master of Business Administration degree.
2011 PHC team members that are a part of the Architecture department are Shannon Thompson and Lisa Snyder.