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Studying, thinking about, and doing landscape architecture at Auburn University in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program.

10/08/2026

The BLA 1 students have become unstoppable.🙀

Enjoy these slice of life studio snapshots of the classic Weagle Woods project, where students learn plan and section drawing through careful measuring of existing site conditions. Along the way, they learn how to use scale to translate phenomena into drawings made of marks. Wow, this group is out of control.😱

Studio 1 faculty are Sarah Coleman and Frank Hu.

09/28/2026

Last week, MLA II students made their annual pilgrimage to Renaissance Park in Chattanooga, TN by Hargreaves Jones . Between Dynamic Systems I and History, Theory, and Practice II, students examine the project relative to a piece of landscape architectural theory, documenting aesthetics, maintenance, and ecological systems. Lots to see after a heavy rain - including a snapping turtle in the wetland!

Instructors: Sarah Coleman (HTP II) and Hannah Keltner (Dynamic Systems I)

09/20/2026

MLA Fieldwork I: Experience Alabama

Our first-year MLAs spent three days exploring a diverse range of landscape typologies across Alabama’s Coastal Plain, from pitcher plant bogs and maritime forests to coastal dunes, marshes, beach ridges, and constructed landforms. Such a great opportunity to experience the distinct spatial qualities of these landscapes and to talk about the processes that shape and transform them over time.

09/15/2026

The new first year BLA students are out of control! They just wrapped a tree character drawing project, composing tree studies that capture tree form, proportion, foliage markmaking, and plant detail into these awesome graphite drawings. Let’s gooooo! 🙀

Thanks to our invited critics for providing feedback to these students: Helena, Zoe, and Ruth (all from LIDL)!

BLA Studio 1 faculty are Sarah Coleman + Frank Hu.

09/14/2026

This Saturday, three landscape architecture graduate students along with assistant professor Gwendolyn Cohen hosted a Soil Stories event as a Part of Homestead Day at the Newbern Library. Homestead Day was hosted by Alabama Cooperative Extension Alabama Extension Water and Auburn’s Rural Studio Auburn University Rural Studio. At Soil Stories, we celebrated the soils of the Alabama Blackbelt, considering their material qualities, vibrancy, and our own human connections. We painted with soil, searched for soil critters, and shared stories.

08/26/2026

A few glimpses from our first week back. Line and tone compositions, early fieldwork observations, and research drawings are already filling the desks and walls across all year levels. Welcome to a new year in the studios, everyone!

08/20/2026

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!

AU School of Architecture, Planning + Landscape Architecture Auburn University CADC School of Industrial and Graphic Design at Auburn University Biosystems Engineering Auburn Forestry, Wildlife and Environment

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

05/11/2026

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].

04/25/2026

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

04/20/2026

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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Auburn, AL
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(334) 844-5449

Website

http://cadc.auburn.edu/mla

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