with: Paula Meijerink, Dorothee Imbert, George Hargreaves

This course is the second of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, students expand their previous investigations into a more complex site and set of design problems. The studio is arranged into a series of independent but related exercises of increasing scale and varying relationships within the context of a university campus. In this design process, natural, temporal, and cultural phenomena inflect program, spatial configuration, and materials. Particular emphasis is placed on topographic manipulations and the use of vegetation as a tool of design. The studio seeks to relate subject matter and technique with courses in technology, planting design, drawing, and history.