Our approach is interdisciplinary, involving ideas and skills from the sciences, arts, and humanities. We have a studio fit for any designer. Our students, faculty, and alumni are active within the landscape architecture profession. We celebrate the successes of our students. We help you make the career moves you need to succeed.
The faculty are trained in landscape architecture, botany, ecology, landscape ecology, environmental studies, planning, and urban design. We conduct research in restoring and preserving natural communities and ecosystems; creating urban environments that support human health and well-being and ecosystem services; working with diverse rural and urban communities to document, understand, protect, and conserve cultural and historic landscapes and local food systems; and developing regional conservation strategies using geospatial analysis.
Our students come to us with diverse interests and skills ranging from art and design to plants and people, and leave with groundings in each. While they are here, students have opportunities to participate in faculty research and to collaborate within design studios to solve real-world problems for underserved communities in urban and rural settings in Wisconsin.
We prepare students to enter the profession and become licensed landscape architects through our undergraduate professional degree program, the BLA. For students interested in planning, cultural resource conservation or restoration ecology, we offer an alternative Landscape and Urban Studies degree. Our MSLA graduate program is a research-based or a project-based master’s degree, of which students can choose to specialize in Restoration Ecology or in Community-Focused Design.
