Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
Opportunities
For Students
For Faculty and Staff
For Community
For Alumni
Courses
Our Network
About
About David M. Einhorn
Our Team
Stories and News
What is Community-Engaged Learning?
Engaged College Initiative
Calendar
Our Supporters
Make a Gift
Contact
Give Cornell University Logo
Cornell University Logo
Opportunities
For Students
For Faculty and Staff
For Community
For Alumni
Courses
Our Network
About
About David M. Einhorn
Our Team
Stories and News
What is Community-Engaged Learning?
Engaged College Initiative
Calendar
Our Supporters
Make a Gift
Contact
COURSES     /    LA 5010
Composition and Theory I
This Course At a Glance
Semester

Fall

Credits

5 credits. Letter grades only.

Instructor(s)

Staff.

Introduction to landscape architectural design through a series of course modules that engage students in discovering, knowing and engaging the full potential of the landscape medium. In this process-oriented studio students will develop design proposals for real and imagined sites drawing on knowledge and principles from art, aesthetics, science, nature and culture. Each module sequence will also be integrated with the companion LA 5050 course and emphasize the unfolding and emergent nature of designerly thinking, making and doing.

Outcome 1
Students will gain an introductory understanding of the meaning(s), language and vocabulary of landscape through direct engagement and experience in observing, recording, assessing and designing landscape sites that are both real and imagined. In addition, students will be exposed to historical and contemporary design theories and practices through such things as lectures, readings, films, excursions and field trips.

Outcome 2
Through design exercises students will learn how to creatively work with the expressive medium of landscape by using aesthetics, time, space, form, composition, architecture, narrative, ecology, plants, landform, climate, hydrology, culture and phenomena, to name a few.

Outcome 3
Students will gain an introductory understanding of landscape architecture as an act of placemaking – wherein the relationship between people and their environment is activated, integrated and enhanced.

Outcome 4
Students will learn and practice habits of collaboration, critical inquiry and reflection that are integral to the design process and to studio culture. Large and small group critiques, written and group reflection exercises, collective projects and activities, and studio discussions and dialogues will all be part of creating a supportive and interactive learning environment and studio culture.

Outcome 5
Students will learn and practice the landscape architectural design process as a set of integrated, enfolding and unfolding design acts involving site selecting; site investigating, assessing, evaluating, analyzing; site programming and planning; site structuring, ordering, functioning; site imagining and representing and; site constructing.

Outcome 6
While being exposed to specific design methods and strategies, students will be supported and encouraged to probe and discover their own creative voice and approach to landscape architectural design based on their individual interests, background, values and perspectives.

Outcome 7
Student will learn how to conceive and represent persuasive landscape architectural design proposals and solutions in the form of carefully crafted drawings and models and well considered written and verbal presentations.

Outcome 8
Through integrated design and representation exercises and projects, students will learn how the acts of landscape seeing, representation and making continually interrelate and inform one another.

Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
About
Make a Gift
Contact
Opportunities
Our Network
Stories and News
Students
Opportunities for Students
Courses
Vehicle Program
Faculty & Staff
Opportunities for Faculty & Staff
NYC Workspace
Alumni
Opportunities for Alumni
Community
Opportunities for Community Partners
Subscribe to Our Mailing List

300 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Cornell land acknowledgement

If you have a disability and are having trouble accessing information on this website or need materials in an alternate format, contact web-accessibility@cornell.edu for assistance.

© 2023 Cornell University
300 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Cornell land acknowledgement

If you have a disability and are having trouble accessing information on this website or need materials in an alternate format, contact web-accessibility@cornell.edu for assistance.