LA 4020

Capstone Community Design Studio

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Community and ecological infrastructure design studio.

Prerequisites minimum grade of C- in LA 4010 or permission of instructor.

Enrollment Information Enrollment limited to: Landscape Architecture majors; others by permission of instructor.

Fees Course fee, $500. Fee amount approximate, for drafting equipment, project materials, and studio trips.

Exploratory Studies (CU-CEL, CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2026SP, 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP

Learning Outcomes

• Students will learn spatial design strategies for the interaction between human and ecological systems.
• Students will develop landscape designs across scales from the region to the detail.
• Students will work to understand the needs and desires of local stakeholders, such as community members, business people, and regulatory agency representatives, and interpret these for their significance on future design work.
• Students will work across a range of representational modes including three dimensional digital modeling to develop relative certainty in the functional and aesthetic aspects of their proposal.

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