The
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was among the first institutions in the nation to offer an educational program in
landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...
, with a degree program in place by 1907. It is the only accredited program in the state of Illinois to offer all three landscape degree options, BLA, MLA and Ph.D.
Today, the department sponsors one of the leading graduate-level academic and research programs in the country. The department was particularly influential in the modernization of landscape pedagogy through the teaching of
Stanley Hart White
Stanley Hart White was a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois from 1922 to 1959 and the inventor of the green wall.
Career
White called his invention "Botanical Bricks" and developed prototypes in his backyard in ...
, impacting the work of Peter Walker,
Hideo Sasaki,
Richard Haag, Charles Harris,
Philip H. Lewis Jr. and others.
[Walker, Peter, and Simo, Melanie Louise, ''Invisible Gardens: The Search For Modernism In The American Landscape''. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. Print. ]
References
External links
Department of Landscape Architecture
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Landscape architecture schools