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The profession of landscape architecture is only 100 years old, but people have been creating landscapes since they began to establish farming communities more than 10,000 years ago. The first lecture course begins with the earliest efforts to shape special places – the sacred circle at Stonehenge, the grand processional space at Teotihuac·n, the pyramids at Giza – and concludes with the watershed career of Frederick Law Olmsted. The second course begins with Olmsted and covers modernists such as George Hargreaves, Peter Walker, and Martha Schwartz, concluding with the latest trends in sustainable design.

The two lecture courses introduce the canon; students experience the canon through participation in European Field Studies, which concludes the history sequence.

These courses extend beyond a survey of landscape architecture’s greatest hits to examine associated issues – the political, economic, and ecological forces that shape how people live on the land. A special emphasis is placed on the essential design principles that are repeatedly employed to create memorable landscapes.

School of Architecture courses are complemented by offerings in related fields in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, such as Roman domestic space, art history, and film studies.