ARCH 5822 - History of American Landscape Architecture

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: ARCH 5801 and ARCH 5802 or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ARCH 3822.

L. Mirin.

Landscape architecture in the United States from Jefferson to the present is examined as a unique expression of the American experience. Influences exerted by the physical landscape, the frontier and utopian spirit, and the cultural assumptions of democracy and capitalism are traced as they affect the forms of urban parks, private and corporate estates, public housing, transportation planning, national parks, and other open-space designs.