• LAR 530: Plants in the Landscape I

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  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.Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour lab.
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• LAR 533: Plants in the Landscape II

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  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. Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture, 1 hour lab.
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• LAR 534: 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.(RE) Prerequisite(s): GEOL 590.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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• LAR 535: 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.(RE) Prerequisite(s): LAR 534.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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• LAR 551: Design Studio I

  6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Introduces students to techniques, concepts, and practices of landscape architecture and landscape planning with particular emphasis on development of representational and communication skills using digital and analog media. Strategic and formal design concepts are introduced as vehicles for the exploration of a wide range of media and techniques for analyzing landscapes, projecting design alternatives, and communicating design ideas.Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both Landscape Architecture 551 and Architecture 474.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major.
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• LAR 552: Design Studio II

  6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Focuses on issues of space and form in landscape architectural design. Working at small and intermediate scales, students explore contemporary and historical theories of space and form through a range of analog and digital media with a particular emphasis on 3-dimensional modeling. Students work rapidly across several projects in order to explore multiple formal and spatial concepts and practice new techniques.Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both Landscape Architecture 552 and Architecture 475.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 551.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major.
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• LAR 553: Design Studio III

  6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Explores intermediately complex themes and issues of site-oriented design and planning. Studio work focuses primarily on a range of explorations of medium-scale projects using a mixture of analog and digital media.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 552.
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• LAR 554: Design Studio IV

  6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Focus on large scale community and site planning and land use issues. Particular emphasis on both urban and rural development through sustainable design for both human health and natural environments. Exploration of topical/thematic issues using a mixture of analog and digital media.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 553.
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• LAR 555: Design Studio V

  6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Advanced studio with a focus on urban-scale sites and issues. Particular emphasis on design of urban projects and infrastructure that enhance human knowledge of and sensual engagement with regional civic, cultural, and ecological aspects of urban place while sustaining sustain human health and natural environments. Exploration of topical/thematic issues using a mixture of analog and digital media.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 554.
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• LAR 556: Design Studio VI

  6.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  An advanced studio with a focus on strategic approaches to landscape architecture and planning. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of systemic strategies, which include physical landscape components, policy innovations, economic mechanisms, PR campaigns, and more.(RE) Prerequisite(s): 555.Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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