The Department of Landscape Architecture is dedicated to providing the
highest quality professional educational experience for its students.
We recognize that the profession of Landscape Architecture is changing
and calling on professionals to play a more active leadership role in
designing and managing numerous aspects of our environment. With a learning
centered educational approach, Cal Poly students will develop the professional
skills and knowledge needed to make valuable contributions to a changing
global society.
Through the faculty’s commitment to excellence in teaching and
to the core values of the profession, students will develop an appreciation
for life long learning and interdisciplinary approach to landscape architectural
design.
The department offers a program which:
a) Emphasizes an understanding of natural and cultural systems in the process of site, community, urban, and regional design and planning;
b) Promotes a responsible, humanistic and sustainable approach to land planning and design, and
c) Presents the Landscape Architect as a leader and integrator of information from allied disciplines, the arts, technology, and the natural and social sciences.
Landscape Architecture Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA
