• LAR 432: Plants in the Landscape I

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  This course provides students with an introduction to the use of plant materials in the built environment, drawing upon contemporary approaches to landscape architecture and sustainable landscape design. The course is structured to provide students with concrete working knowledge - identification and performative characteristics - of approximately 120 plants that are somewhat common in the southeast or across the United States with a particular emphasis on plants that are well-adapted to urban situations. In addition to plant identification, the course will provide students with a series of frameworks through which to consider how plants have been or could be utilized, as well as emerging ecological theories such as novel ecosystems. Credit hour distribution: 2 lecture and 1 lab.
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• LAR 433: Plants in the Landscape II

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  This course provides students with an introduction to the use of plant materials and their supporting bio-physical systems in order to harness their performative or bio-technological potentials in the built environment. The course draws from landscape architecture, environmental engineering, and other disciplines and practices currently exploring the utility of contemporary biotechnologies. The course is structured to provide students with concrete working knowledge - identification and performative characteristics - of approximately 120 plants that are commonly utilized in performative capacities such as constructed wetlands, bioswales, and other remediative situations. Credit hour distribution: 2 lecture and 1 lab.
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• LAR 434: Operative Landscapes

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Surveys the evolving socio-ecological conditions resulting from urbanization, climate dynamics, evolving economies and technological innovation. Landscape architects around the world increasingly engage these complexities in the built environment to create new possibilities for the economic, social, and environmental performance of landscapes in public, private, and infrastructural territories. Will use contemporary projects as a basis for understanding multi-scalar design approaches, technical details, and maintenance regimes. Emphasis will be placed on built landscapes and living systems as integral parts of more dynamic, resilient, and sustainable approaches to landscape design, implementation, and management across scales from the site to the watershed. Schedule Type: LL; Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture plus 1 hour labRegistration Restriction: Minimum level junior or consent of instructor.
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• LAR 435: Operative Landscape Tactics

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Provides instruction on the practical design, implementation, and management of living systems as fundamental elements of multifunctional infrastructures and operative landscapes at a range of scales and contexts. Planning, design, implementation, maintenance, and professional communication methods are exercised through a series of project scenarios.Schedule Type: LL; Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture plus 1 hour lab (RE) Prerequisite(s): LAR 434Registration Restriction: Minimum level junior or consent of instructor.
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• LAR 487: Contemp Landscape Architecture

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  This course is intended to provide students with an awareness and appreciation for contemporary landscape architecture. While the primary focus of the course will be from 1950 to the present, we will periodically reach farther back into history in order to better understand key historical precedent projects and designers that were or are influential to contemporary designers and projects. This course situates current practices through a survey of precedents, events and spatial developments across cultures and scales. In order to understand the projective discipline of landscape architecture, we must study how it has been informed, influenced and shifted over its relatively short existence.
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• LAR 488: Contemp Landscape: Prob/Potent

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  This course will survey a wide range of issues impacting the landscape and the social-ecological systems it supports. Climate change, urbanization, population increases, and migrations of human and non-human species are among the many pressures currently affecting landscapes and informing the disciplines involved in their analysis, design, and management. The course will also provide a global survey of the people and projects that are engaging in these landscape changes. These projects will range across scales from site to system and provide students with a greater understanding of the potentials for engaging these landscape issues through design and related fields.
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• LAR 521: Design Communication I

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Focuses on discipline-specific modes of representation, digital tools, technical drawing modes and con-ventions, and fundamental compositional concerns. In addition to these visual and graphic modes of representation, students learn cross-media software workflows and multi-media strategies for generating and communicating design ideas.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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• LAR 522: Design Communication II

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Builds on the skills developed in LAR 521 to engage in more advanced and exploratory practices of design communication. Students will use multiple media and techniques to explore and explain complex landscape phenomena and conditions as well as developing skills with emerging design communication processes such as parametric modeling, information graphics, and visual storytelling.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 521.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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• LAR 523: Visual Comm for Non-Designers

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Provides instruction on the basics of visual communication for students in non-design disciplines. Students will explore a range of digital design techniques and workflows across software packages in order to prepare them to communicate effectively in a variety of common communication types and formats. Will primarily focus on the most-used industry, which are essential tools for the efficient creation and management of contemporary visual communications. Contact Hour Distribution: 1.5 hours lecture and 1.5 hours lab.
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• LAR 525: Special Topics

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Instructor-initiated course.Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.Registration Restriction(s): College of Architecture and Design graduate students or consent of instructor.
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