Our real-world approach offers students pathways into the landscape architecture profession by working in professional offices as interns for credit or as paid interns with our faculty on research and design projects during the semester or over the summer. Design real-world projects that are resilient, sustainable and beautiful in our award winning, accredited program. And our students get jobs at some of the best firms, non-profits and public agencies- work for OLIN, Jonathon Alderson, Philadelphia Water Department, Aramark among others! Our design process is equitable, inclusive and creative. We design parks, gardens, streetscapes, and restore habitats - while architects are designing buildings and landscape architects design everything else!Īt Jefferson, you will learn to be not only a responsible and creative designer who listen, build trust and advocate for the environment but also a leader in the profession. We consider impacts on the environment from climate change and natural disasters as well as the health of humans and wildlife alike. Our end is always action, so we build the know-how needed to get to it.Landscape architects are instrumental in the design of healthy and equitable cities and environments. We believe in the value of repetition: we do, we reflect, we repeat. We aim to be curious, resourceful, precise, and attentive. The attitudes we cultivate are at the core of who we are. We spend time getting to know the landscapes where we work-we jump in and we get our hands and boots dirty. We are optimistic that landscape architecture can bring real value to these situations, that we can help imagine and build the landscapes of futures that people - in Alabama, in the United States, around the world - will want to live in. We champion underdog landscapes: places that are undervalued, overlooked, and unappreciated. Grounded in the landscapes of our home state of Alabama, we focus our attention on places where these issues are prominently felt: post-industrial cities, infrastructural landscapes, rural landscapes, and coasts. We aim to be both humble enough to admit that we cannot solve these issues on our own and confident enough to tackle them head-on, working with collaborators, partners, and communities. Too often, these issues are oversimplified, reduced to dualities that offer easy answers, papering over richness, complexity, and messiness. We focus our attention on places where issues like climate dynamics, poverty, and the spatial legacies of racial inequity manifest.
The world is already being designed, we just believe that it could be better if the vision, imagination, and practical knowledge of landscape architecture are involved. Human impact is inescapable: scientists describe our current age as the ‘Anthropocene’, which literally means the “age of humanity,” because the collective impacts of our civilization on our planet are so broad and pervasive. These choices are design choices, even when they are not made by designers. From forests that are grown and cut to provide timber, to cities dealing with legacies of declining heavy industries, to the streets of new suburbs, our world and our landscapes are shaped by the choices people make.
We are motivated by the recognition that design is already everywhere around us.
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