Educational Programs
Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture
The BAC welcomes students to its first professional degree in landscape architecture, the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. Both beginning and advanced placement students are encouraged to apply. As one of a small number of institutions across the United States to offer professional degrees in the three major design disciplines (architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture), the BAC is uniquely positioned to apply its model of concurrent design education to the study of sustainable landscape.
Landscape architecture explores the art, science and critical thinking required to creatively shape the built and natural environment. In addition to the foundation courses common to all of the BAC's degree offerings, students will take courses in drafting and design media, botany and geology, plant materials and ecology. The BLA Construction Sequence will include a complete technical preparation. Design studios will be targeted to the concepts and challenges unique to the practice of landscape architecture. Students also will participate in the practice component of the BAC's concurrent curriculum.
The program of study is six years, with some summer course work, with 126 academic credits and 45 practice credits required. Students seeking more detail should contact Pepe Anzalone in the Admissions Office at 617-585-0163. We also welcome you to visit the BAC Admissions web page to get additional information. Patricia S. Loheed, ASLA Program Director for Landscape Architecture at: pat.loheed@the-bac.edu.
As the city and environs that gave rise to one of the most fruitful partnerships in American history between an architect and landscape architect -- that between Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted -- Boston is a rich laboratory for students interested in pursuing a career in landscape architecture.
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