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440 Kennedy Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4203
607 255-9552

Applying:

2009-10 Tuition: $24,700

Application deadlines:
Fall, Feb. 15 (open, if space available)

Requirements summary:

Degrees, Subjects & Concentrations:

Subjects: Landscape Architecture (M.L.A., M.P.S.)

Major concentrations: landscape architecture

Degrees: M.L.A., M.P.S.

Course descriptions and rosters:

Description:

Three-year graduate program. The three-year Master of Landscape Architecture degree (license qualifying) is designed for students from diverse educational backgrounds who want to enter the profession fully qualified at the master's level. The program of study includes ninety credits of course work in landscape and community design, landscape history and theory, drawing and studies in representation, landscape technology, plant materials, and professional practice. Concentrations are generally derived from two focus areas of the department, (1) community design and planning and (2) cultural landscape studies, but other options are available depending on student interest and faculty support.


Two-year graduate program. The two-year Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.) degree is intended for students who have a degree in landscape architecture or architecture. The program requires sixty credits of course work, a thesis, and two academic years of residency. For landscape architects, the program of study requires two studio courses, two concentrations, and elective courses. For architects, core courses in landscape architecture, a concentration, and elective courses are required. Concentrations are generally derived from two focus areas of the department, (1) community design and planning and (2) cultural landscape studies, but other options are available depending on student interest and faculty support.

Other programs:
Joint degrees are available with the Fields of City and Regional Planning (M.L.A.-M.R.P.) and Horticulture (M.L.A.-M.S.). (See those field descriptions for more information.)

Application:
All applicants are required to submit two recommendations and a design portfolio. Applicants to two-year program should hold a bachelor's degree in architecture or landscape architecture from a recognized institution. Applicants with a bachelor's degree in an area other than architecture or landscape architecture should apply to the three-year program. A field brochure is available upon request from the graduate field office.

Faculty:

  • Nina Bassuk -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: establishment of plants in urban/disturbed landscapes

  • Sherene Baugher -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: archaeology; cultural landscape; American Indian land use; historic preservation

  • Richard Booth -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: environmental law

  • Jeffrey Chusid -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: historic preservation

  • John Elliott -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: architecture

  • Jeremy Foster -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: history and theory of landscape; cultural geography; visual culture and geographical imagination; geographics of displacement

  • Kathryn Gleason -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: landscape architecture; landscape archaeology; classical archaeology

  • Paula Horrigan -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: landscape architecture

  • Jan Jennings -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: design studio education; history/theory and criticism of interior design and architecture; American vernacular architecture; historic preservation

  • Daniel Krall -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: historic preservation; early women practitioners

  • D. Lasansky -- Research interests: the convergence of politics, economics, and popular culture as related to the built environment

  • Claudia Lazzaro -- Research interests: art history; Italian Renaissance gardens

  • Leonard Mirin -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: landscape architecture

  • A. Martin Petrovic -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: horticulture

  • Donald Rakow -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: horticulture; public garden management; landscape management

  • Deni Ruggeri -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: landscape architecture

  • Peter Trowbridge -- Concentrations: landscape architecture; Research interests: landscape architecture and environmental management

  • Thomas Whitlow -- Research interests: plant ecology; physiological ecology; tree physiology; urban horticulture

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