Auburn University Landscape Architecture Program

While we welcome students back to Dudley Hall this week, we have been thinking about a summer spent engaging landscapes. Assistant Professor iscohen led a group of students from landscape architecture, architecture, industrial design, and bio systems engineering on a two week long Gulf Adaptation Design Studio Fellowship. Together, with faculty across the programs, students explored the physical, ecological, and social infrastructure of the Gulf Coast, ultimately proposing new ways to engage Mobile’s Eslava Creek.

We are excited for the semester ahead and seeing all of the ways that students are getting out, into the landscapes they are studying!

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The Gulf Adaptation Design Studio is funded through the The National Academies Gulf Research Program.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (APLA) at Auburn University, a comprehensive land-grant and research institution, is seeking applicants for Visiting Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture.  This is a one-year (nine month/two semester), non-tenure track position commencing in August 2027.

We offer both an undergraduate degree (BLA) and a graduate degree (MLA).  Grounded in the state of Alabama, we focus attention on places where the richness, complexity, and messiness of landscape is prominently felt, including post-industrial cities, infrastructural landscapes, rural landscapes, and coasts.  Our curriculum places special emphasis on the fundamentals of design process, fieldwork, landscape advocacy, research by design, and the role of landscape architecture in an expanded field of allied disciplines and concerns.

The Landscape Architecture Programs seek a candidate with a strong interest in teaching both design studios and seminar courses.  Candidates should have the capacity to teach at least some portion of: a.) our core studio sequences (Studio I-IV and Workshop I-II in the BLA program; Studio I-IV in the MLA program) and b.) our core subject tracks (construction; dynamic systems; graphic studies; history, theory, and practice; plants).  There may also be opportunities to teach elective seminars or advanced studios within the Alabama Lab.

Apply at link in bio and email questions to [email protected].

Final reviews wrapped! 🙀 Our BLA Studio IV just shared proposals for Lake Guntersville State Park and Monte Sano State Park in partnership with Alabama State Parks. A rigorous semester rethinking hiking, camping, recreation, and more! …paired with inventive spatial experiences! 🤠

External Reviewers: Martin Hogue, Ben Waldo, and John Kett

Studio faculty: Frank Hu + Adam Molinski

We’ve been meaning to share this earlier, but better late than never, right? The Alabama Lab design/build studio crew have been working feverishly in the this semester. After much exploration, they identified three critical & catalytic spaces to install within the 250 acres site. Allow me to introduce you to the Kudzu Room, the Bamboo Room, and the Elm Room. This crew has been cranking, and now they’re making their final tweaks in preparation for their final review this Wednesday. Here are a few teasers from their process…

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We did a thing!!

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) program has just been officially awarded initial accreditation by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB)!

This professional milestone could only be possible due to the hard work of all our faculty, staff, and of course…students! Notably, the program was awarded accreditation with zero determinations of non-compliance!

Enjoy these exhibit photos showcasing student work from our accreditation exhibit last Fall!

BLA BLA BLA!!

Look out! The Alabama Lab design/build studio crew got their hands on a slightly larger tool for some of their ongoing work in the this week. They’re making some lovely progress now. More to come soon…

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studio instructor David Hill []