New course for fall 2017. Interested in sketching? Looking to travel somewhere tropical for winter break? The Landscape Architecture program at UCLA Extension is offering a new travel course to Havana, Cuba. The course is open to anyone, you do not need to be a program student nor know how to draw to enroll and […]
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Summer 2015 Registration Begins Today!
Summer 2015 registration is officially open! To view a listing of classes offered this quarter, you can search courses online or browse our catalog by clicking the image on the left. Students can enroll online or over the phone by calling the UCLA Extension registration department at (310) 825-9971. Please have the Reg # […]
Landscape Architecture Open House
April 18, 2015 from 9:30 – 11:30 am in room 202 @ 10920 Lindbrook Drive, Los Angeles, for the next information session about the Landscape Architecture Certificate. Alumni, current students, instructors, and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you may have. We will also be raffling off a free class and offering […]
“Restorative Urban Design” by Jessica Haren
Overcrowding, excessive buildings and concrete, and negative environmental stimuli lead to unhealthy mental and physical stress for people living in dense urban cities. Restorative landscapes, woven into the existing grid, that are focused on quality of mind, body, and community, will incorporate nature’s benefits, support social connections, and promote daily physical activity, via a green […]
“Urban Space Transformation” by Samantha Hung
This project aims to transform underutilized urban areas that have been gragmented or occupied by roadways, waterways, and utility corridors into a unified, publicly accessible green space. UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Thesis Presentation. Instructors Patrick Reynolds & Eileen Alduenda.
“Ephemeral Park and Wildlife Sanctuary” by Julia Newton
This project redesigns a closed, remediated landfill for habitat restoration, community recreation, and renewable energy production. It embraces the major constraint of the site — a subsiding, shifting ground plane — by mimicking the movement of the topography, and using program elements that are temporary, ephemeral, moveable or recyclable. It is a metaphor for landscape […]
