Landscape Architecture Program

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Landscape Architecture Program

Email 605-688-4103

Energetic. Creative. Passionate. Professional. You can make a difference.

Landscape architects excel in addressing social and environmental issues with creative and achievable solutions. Classes in this program include art, design, horticulture, biological sciences, site planning and engineering. Students with a passion for creativity and the outdoors become the architects of the parks, campuses, downtowns, streets, trails, plazas, homes and many other essential places in our communities.

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Landscape Architecture (B.L.A.)

In this degree, cultural and scientific knowledge is applied to the use and arrangement of natural and man-made elements with concern for resource conservation, stewardship and the environment. Graduates work in a wide variety of areas in the industry, as designers and planners in public and private practice, and as environmental designers and managers.

Landscape Architecture (B.L.A.) Overview

Our Mission

The landscape architecture program at South ��ֱ�� State University transforms students and communities through creative and applied problem solving. We learn by doing.

Getting to figure out a real-world project, and being able to look at when it is built and being able to say that this one is mine, I am excited to do that.

Riley Stueber, senior landscape architecture student

Opportunities

Recent Employers

Confluence Landscape Architecture
Beck Engineering
Bluestone Landscape Company
National Park Service
State of South ��ֱ�� Conservation Forestry
United States Forestry Service
Lanoha Nurseries
DGR Engineering
Tallgrass Landscape Architecture

Recent Internships

TerraSite Design, Rapid City
Confluence, Sioux Falls
Studio Outside, Dallas, Texas
Bret-Mar Landscape, Homer Glen, Illinois
Vireo. Omaha, Nebraska
Ayers Saint Gross, Baltimore, Maryland
Waldrop Engineering, Fort Myers, Florida
Stantic, Minneapolis, Minnesota

In the SDSU landscape architecture program, we use creativity and problem-solving skills to become better stewards of the natural and built environments. We enjoy creative problem solving while working both indoors and outdoors. We are looking for students with a passion for creativity and the outdoors to join us and learn how to plan and design the parks, campuses, downtowns, streets, trails, plazas, homes and other places our communities are made of.

Computer Specifications

Students need to have their own laptop computers with applicable software installed by the beginning of the first-year spring semester. Questions? Contact Don Burger, associate professor of landscape architecture.

Personal Computers

Laptop Operating System

Windows 11

Hardware

3.5GHz or faster 64-bit processor
32GB to 128GB RAM
Direct3D-compatible graphics card with 6GB to 16GB integrated RAM (RTX 4070 or better)
OpenGL 4 compatibility
1TB to 4TB SSD hard drive
1920 x 1200 minimum screen resolution, up to 4K
15-inch screen minimum (27-inch external screen recommended) with 60Hz refresh rate
Integrated webcam
Three-button mouse with scroll wheel
USB-C to HDMI adapter

Software