波士顿建筑学院

The BAC's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture is a 4-year professional degree accredited by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board that prepares you to become a licensed landscape architect. Through studio work in urban design, planning, and site design, you gain knowledge over natural and constructed systems that shape sustainable urban spaces. Design concepts are supported by media and technology courses, providing you with representation skills and construction technology expertise.

Our innovative approach to education integrates real-world practice with traditional classroom learning. At the BAC, you earn credit working in professional firms, conducting community service, or exploring areas of applied research.

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) Degree is a four-year undergraduate program focused on urban landscapes, and reinforced through an integrated foundation experience and a liberal studies curriculum rich in the arts and natural sciences. The program is composed of three phases: Foundation, Integration, and Synthesis.

During Foundation, all entering undergraduate BAC students share their first year experience and are exposed to broad principles of design thinking. Fundamental design concepts and a universal spatial language are framed through a balanced mixture of discipline specific courses in design history and theory, critical reading, writing, and design media, as well as through a wide range of liberal arts, humanities, and arts and science topics that promote students' social and engaged thinking.

The second phase of the study, Integration, takes students through a series of spatial scales and complexities, each aligned with a specific set of supporting technologies. Local, regional and world spaces and cities are studied through the lenses of urban ecology, infrastructure, transportation and sustainable practices, and then applied in studios to institutional planning, mix-use, commercial, housing, and urban public realm sites. Landscape Architecture design media and technologies, sustainability, and the construction of landscapes are a constant focus.

The third and final Segment, Synthesis, culminates with students' successful completion of design and liberal studies explorations, as represented through Degree I and II projects in Landscape Architecture.

During both Integration and Synthesis, students participate in Practice and partake in community work and professional collaboration. Through applied learning, students begin to formulate and refine ideas that will further strengthen their Landscape Architectural studies.