Masters in Landscape Architecture

The MLA program at ASU is designed to enable students to engage with the community in applied projects that focus on improving the ecological and social health of the urban environment. The emphasis is on sustainable outdoor environments.The graduate landscape architecture program projects can include large-scale work encompassing urban design, landscape reclamation, open space preservation planning and landscape ecological design, and projects at the more intimate scale of a neighborhood park or residential back yard. Emerging areas of focus include biotechnical design, construction of greenways, green roofs, living walls, urban agriculture as well as the design of healing environments.As an accredited master's degree program in landscape architecture, the curriculum is intended to prepare students for landscape architecture professional practice and advanced study at the doctoral level. The Design School is committed to the merging of global and local contexts and concerns and, toward this end, graduate students in their final year go abroad for two weeks as part of their studio course.