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The Master of Landscape Architecture Program teaches students to design land and land-based practices that advance environmental and social justice in a time of climate and public change.
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Type
Graduate, MLA
Start Term
Fall Only
Credits
85
Duration
3 years
Courses
Plan of Study

Landscape Architecture

Students work on wooden structures that they've installed in the Catskill Forest

Students earning an MLA degree at Pratt are taught to embrace an inclusive approach to design that bridges culture and nature, ecology and policy, living and built environments. With so many challenges at hand, and underfoot, we prioritize collaborative and team-based learning, articulating changes between large scale systems, expansive historical precedents, evolutionary processes, and individual organisms. Landscape Architecture is a discipline, a profession, and a practice that informs the environment at every scale. We celebrate this legacy by imagining global education as a collaboration with the soils, plants and waters that sustain species.

Career Opportunities

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The program aims to enable graduates to enter the profession with a sophisticated portfolio of flexible skills, knowledge and understanding.

Graduates from the MLA program progress to work in design practice and landscape stewardship both nationally and internationally, as well as contributing to academia and aspects of governance of a wide spectrum of landscapes across a broad range of scales.

Our Faculty

As educators, our most important task is to determine how we can create equitable learning for all students, which includes diverse ways of knowing. Our program is supported by colleagues, students, and professional associations that work through civic engagement and respects the traditional and unceded homeland of the Lenape people.  In a time of great uncertainty, we are certain that our relationship to the land requires our complete attention. See all Graduate Architecture and Urban Design faculty and administrators.

Rosetta S. Elkin

Academic Director, Landscape Architecture Program; Associate Professor

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Mariel Collard

Assistant Professor

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Mark Heller

Assistant Professor

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Signe Nielsen

Adjunct Professor

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Jacob Suissa

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Benjamin Goulet-Scott

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Bill Logan

Visiting Professor

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Melody Stein

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Jeffrey Hogrefe

Professor

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Ellen Garrett

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Marissa Angell

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Sanford Kwinter

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Success Stories

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  • A rare window into the hidden: Maintenance and Operations in Prospect Park for LAR-704

As part of a wider exploration of park management systems in the wake of climate and social pressures for their fourth semester core studio, students in LAR - 704 were introduced this week to the maintenance and operations facilities that make Prospect Park. Leila Mougoi Bakhtiari, director of Landscape Management of Prospect Park Alliance, guided students on a tour of PPA’s maintenance facilities and spoke on the challenges of operating one of NYC’s largest and most beloved parks on limited resources. Students learned about specific machinery used within the park, including the “Floating Goat”- an aquatic weed harvester used to remove invasive plants within the lake, and about the robust volunteer community that helps keep the park open to all. Thank you to Leila and the PPA for bringing to light the machine that keeps the park open to all! 

Instructors: Marissa Angell & Brad Howe

@prattgaud 
@prattsoa
  • LAR-774 | Landscape Research II

Our second-year students in Landscape Research II investigate independent research questions through animation. This mid-semester assignment asks students to produce a 30-second flipbook animation exploring how their geography and activity of interest has changed throughout time. Topics included artificial snowmaking, invasive species management, mapping historical waterways, waste streams, and storm inundation effects. Using historic archives, satellite data repositories, GIS analysis, and sketching, students began to untangle the material, ecological, and cultural implications of everyday industries and practices.

Work by: Patrick Belli, Ana Julia Chiriboga, Nell Heidinger, Joyce Hsu, Noelle LaDue, Tiger Lee, Chase Mitchell, and Daniel Montoya

Instructor: Mark Heller

@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
  • LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
  • We're extremely pleased to be hosting three special events at the end of this month, from March 26–28, each featuring leaders in the field of Landscape Architecture.

These events are open to prospective students, including our third-round applicants who have not yet submitted their applications, or are still considering applying and would like to know more about the program.

If you’re a prospective student who’s interested in attending any of these, please email studylandscape@pratt.edu, specifying which event(s) you’re interested in attending.

Event details:

• Tuesday, March 26 — "Forest": Rosetta S. Elkin in Conversation with Dilip da Cunha
• Lecture format discussion entitled “Forest” with Rosetta S. Elkin and Dilip da Cunha in conversation about what the word “environment:” means and how designers can relate with greater empathy. In conjunction with ARCH-652 — History/Theory II: Knowledge, Design, & Contexts
• Hosted by Sanford Kwinter, Gökhan Kodalak & Anna Maria Duran)
• 10:30am–12:30pm, Higgins Hall Auditorium

• Wednesday, March 27 —Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Panel with Nancy Prince, Kevin Quinn, Signe Nielsen, and Ellen Garrett
• Nancy Prince (Chief of Landscape Architecture, NYC Parks) and Kevin Quinn (Senior Vice President, Design & Construction, Hudson River Park) in conversation with moderator Signe Nielsen (Pratt MLA, MNLA)
• Hosted by Ellen Garrett for LAR-752 — Landscape Architecture Professional Practice I
• 12:30–2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

• Thursday, March 28 — Julian Raxworthy
• Book Talk: The Author will join us for a lecture and discussion of his award winning publication “Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening” that addresses how to fill the gap between Landscape Architecture and gardening.
• 12:30-2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
@julian_raxworthy
@fwd_land
@practicelandscape
@mnla_landscape_architects
@hudsonriverpark
@sanford_kwinter
@nycparks
  • LAR-613 | Cartography II: Soil Making

Cartography II: Soil Making explores the link between how we sense the world and how we design it, utilizing soils as both medium and collaborator. In this course, first-year students study soils and site-grading in tandem, investigating the relationship between soil science and topographic design. 

To kick off this exploration, students visited Gerritsen Beach in January to collect soil samples and investigate the plant life and ecological processes that define the place. They’ll continue focusing on Gerritsen Beach throughout the semester, developing grading plans and models that respond directly to what they observed on site and through soil testing in the studio.
Course Instructors: Bill Logan @urban_arborists , Melody Stein @studio_visit_ 
@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
  • LAR-652 | Landscape Studies II: Indigeneity 

First-year students recently met with Dr. Thai Jones, an archivist and historian at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Dr. Jones curated a selection of archival documents related to landscapes and the environment of New York City. 

Students had a hands-on experience in the archives. They examined documents ranging from 19th century photographs of Coney Island, to topographical maps of Manhattanville, to artistic renderings of the Brooklyn shoreline. 

After the visit to the archives, students explored Morningside Park. They discussed the environmental and social histories intertwined in the landscape, which sits between the Columbia campus and Harlem. 

Instructor: Amanda Martin-Hardin

📷: Payton Prendergast, Amanda Martin-Hardin

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
  • Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
  • Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
  • Pratt MLA is still accepting applications for Fall 2024! If you’re interested in applying, please join us this Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm EST for a virtual info session about the program.

The session will include an overview of the department provided by the Alexandra Barker, the Chair of Pratt's department of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design.

There will then be an MLA-specific breakout session with an additional introduction to the program, given by Academic Director Rosetta S. Elkin. This session will also feature a Q&A.

You can find an RSVP link for the session in our bio.

If you have any other questions about the program or application process, please reach out to us at studylandscape@pratt.edu.

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
A rare window into the hidden: Maintenance and Operations in Prospect Park for LAR-704

As part of a wider exploration of park management systems in the wake of climate and social pressures for their fourth semester core studio, students in LAR - 704 were introduced this week to the maintenance and operations facilities that make Prospect Park. Leila Mougoi Bakhtiari, director of Landscape Management of Prospect Park Alliance, guided students on a tour of PPA’s maintenance facilities and spoke on the challenges of operating one of NYC’s largest and most beloved parks on limited resources. Students learned about specific machinery used within the park, including the “Floating Goat”- an aquatic weed harvester used to remove invasive plants within the lake, and about the robust volunteer community that helps keep the park open to all. Thank you to Leila and the PPA for bringing to light the machine that keeps the park open to all! 

Instructors: Marissa Angell & Brad Howe

@prattgaud 
@prattsoa
A rare window into the hidden: Maintenance and Operations in Prospect Park for LAR-704

As part of a wider exploration of park management systems in the wake of climate and social pressures for their fourth semester core studio, students in LAR - 704 were introduced this week to the maintenance and operations facilities that make Prospect Park. Leila Mougoi Bakhtiari, director of Landscape Management of Prospect Park Alliance, guided students on a tour of PPA’s maintenance facilities and spoke on the challenges of operating one of NYC’s largest and most beloved parks on limited resources. Students learned about specific machinery used within the park, including the “Floating Goat”- an aquatic weed harvester used to remove invasive plants within the lake, and about the robust volunteer community that helps keep the park open to all. Thank you to Leila and the PPA for bringing to light the machine that keeps the park open to all! 

Instructors: Marissa Angell & Brad Howe

@prattgaud 
@prattsoa
A rare window into the hidden: Maintenance and Operations in Prospect Park for LAR-704

As part of a wider exploration of park management systems in the wake of climate and social pressures for their fourth semester core studio, students in LAR - 704 were introduced this week to the maintenance and operations facilities that make Prospect Park. Leila Mougoi Bakhtiari, director of Landscape Management of Prospect Park Alliance, guided students on a tour of PPA’s maintenance facilities and spoke on the challenges of operating one of NYC’s largest and most beloved parks on limited resources. Students learned about specific machinery used within the park, including the “Floating Goat”- an aquatic weed harvester used to remove invasive plants within the lake, and about the robust volunteer community that helps keep the park open to all. Thank you to Leila and the PPA for bringing to light the machine that keeps the park open to all! 

Instructors: Marissa Angell & Brad Howe

@prattgaud 
@prattsoa
A rare window into the hidden: Maintenance and Operations in Prospect Park for LAR-704 As part of a wider exploration of park management systems in the wake of climate and social pressures for their fourth semester core studio, students in LAR - 704 were introduced this week to the maintenance and operations facilities that make Prospect Park. Leila Mougoi Bakhtiari, director of Landscape Management of Prospect Park Alliance, guided students on a tour of PPA’s maintenance facilities and spoke on the challenges of operating one of NYC’s largest and most beloved parks on limited resources. Students learned about specific machinery used within the park, including the “Floating Goat”- an aquatic weed harvester used to remove invasive plants within the lake, and about the robust volunteer community that helps keep the park open to all. Thank you to Leila and the PPA for bringing to light the machine that keeps the park open to all! Instructors: Marissa Angell & Brad Howe @prattgaud @prattsoa
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LAR-774 | Landscape Research II

Our second-year students in Landscape Research II investigate independent research questions through animation. This mid-semester assignment asks students to produce a 30-second flipbook animation exploring how their geography and activity of interest has changed throughout time. Topics included artificial snowmaking, invasive species management, mapping historical waterways, waste streams, and storm inundation effects. Using historic archives, satellite data repositories, GIS analysis, and sketching, students began to untangle the material, ecological, and cultural implications of everyday industries and practices.

Work by: Patrick Belli, Ana Julia Chiriboga, Nell Heidinger, Joyce Hsu, Noelle LaDue, Tiger Lee, Chase Mitchell, and Daniel Montoya

Instructor: Mark Heller

@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
LAR-774 | Landscape Research II Our second-year students in Landscape Research II investigate independent research questions through animation. This mid-semester assignment asks students to produce a 30-second flipbook animation exploring how their geography and activity of interest has changed throughout time. Topics included artificial snowmaking, invasive species management, mapping historical waterways, waste streams, and storm inundation effects. Using historic archives, satellite data repositories, GIS analysis, and sketching, students began to untangle the material, ecological, and cultural implications of everyday industries and practices. Work by: Patrick Belli, Ana Julia Chiriboga, Nell Heidinger, Joyce Hsu, Noelle LaDue, Tiger Lee, Chase Mitchell, and Daniel Montoya Instructor: Mark Heller @prattsoa @prattgaud
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LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore

The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester.

Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work.

Course instructor: Mariel Collard

📷: @marielilla 

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-602 | Land Studio II: Shore The second course in our studio sequence explores the urbanized coastlines of New York Harbor as a landscape in continuous transformation. Throughout the semester, the course breaks down the idea of the shore as a static line and conceptualizes it as a thick zone: a gradient of humidity, biodiversity, salinity, and human influence in the form of contamination, development, and infrastructure. We focus on the New Jersey Meadowlands as a dynamic ecologic and cultural system where the students design with retreat and wilding as climate adaptation strategies for a wetter New York. As seas rise, temperatures increase, and storm events become more frequent, we work creatively through analog and digital drawing, physical modeling techniques and field experience to imagine biodiverse, just, and hopeful futures. We have partnered up with the Meadowlands Research & Restoration Institute as our scientist allies and are excited to work with them through the semester. Photos show the students exploring Erie Landfill, harvesting Phragmites for the construction of floating wetlands, model making at @pi_fab, and studio work. Course instructor: Mariel Collard 📷: @marielilla @prattsoa @prattgaud
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We're extremely pleased to be hosting three special events at the end of this month, from March 26–28, each featuring leaders in the field of Landscape Architecture.

These events are open to prospective students, including our third-round applicants who have not yet submitted their applications, or are still considering applying and would like to know more about the program.

If you’re a prospective student who’s interested in attending any of these, please email studylandscape@pratt.edu, specifying which event(s) you’re interested in attending.

Event details:

• Tuesday, March 26 — "Forest": Rosetta S. Elkin in Conversation with Dilip da Cunha
• Lecture format discussion entitled “Forest” with Rosetta S. Elkin and Dilip da Cunha in conversation about what the word “environment:” means and how designers can relate with greater empathy. In conjunction with ARCH-652 — History/Theory II: Knowledge, Design, & Contexts
• Hosted by Sanford Kwinter, Gökhan Kodalak & Anna Maria Duran)
• 10:30am–12:30pm, Higgins Hall Auditorium

• Wednesday, March 27 —Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Panel with Nancy Prince, Kevin Quinn, Signe Nielsen, and Ellen Garrett
• Nancy Prince (Chief of Landscape Architecture, NYC Parks) and Kevin Quinn (Senior Vice President, Design & Construction, Hudson River Park) in conversation with moderator Signe Nielsen (Pratt MLA, MNLA)
• Hosted by Ellen Garrett for LAR-752 — Landscape Architecture Professional Practice I
• 12:30–2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

• Thursday, March 28 — Julian Raxworthy
• Book Talk: The Author will join us for a lecture and discussion of his award winning publication “Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening” that addresses how to fill the gap between Landscape Architecture and gardening.
• 12:30-2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
@julian_raxworthy
@fwd_land
@practicelandscape
@mnla_landscape_architects
@hudsonriverpark
@sanford_kwinter
@nycparks
We're extremely pleased to be hosting three special events at the end of this month, from March 26–28, each featuring leaders in the field of Landscape Architecture.

These events are open to prospective students, including our third-round applicants who have not yet submitted their applications, or are still considering applying and would like to know more about the program.

If you’re a prospective student who’s interested in attending any of these, please email studylandscape@pratt.edu, specifying which event(s) you’re interested in attending.

Event details:

• Tuesday, March 26 — "Forest": Rosetta S. Elkin in Conversation with Dilip da Cunha
• Lecture format discussion entitled “Forest” with Rosetta S. Elkin and Dilip da Cunha in conversation about what the word “environment:” means and how designers can relate with greater empathy. In conjunction with ARCH-652 — History/Theory II: Knowledge, Design, & Contexts
• Hosted by Sanford Kwinter, Gökhan Kodalak & Anna Maria Duran)
• 10:30am–12:30pm, Higgins Hall Auditorium

• Wednesday, March 27 —Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Panel with Nancy Prince, Kevin Quinn, Signe Nielsen, and Ellen Garrett
• Nancy Prince (Chief of Landscape Architecture, NYC Parks) and Kevin Quinn (Senior Vice President, Design & Construction, Hudson River Park) in conversation with moderator Signe Nielsen (Pratt MLA, MNLA)
• Hosted by Ellen Garrett for LAR-752 — Landscape Architecture Professional Practice I
• 12:30–2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

• Thursday, March 28 — Julian Raxworthy
• Book Talk: The Author will join us for a lecture and discussion of his award winning publication “Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening” that addresses how to fill the gap between Landscape Architecture and gardening.
• 12:30-2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
@julian_raxworthy
@fwd_land
@practicelandscape
@mnla_landscape_architects
@hudsonriverpark
@sanford_kwinter
@nycparks
We're extremely pleased to be hosting three special events at the end of this month, from March 26–28, each featuring leaders in the field of Landscape Architecture.

These events are open to prospective students, including our third-round applicants who have not yet submitted their applications, or are still considering applying and would like to know more about the program.

If you’re a prospective student who’s interested in attending any of these, please email studylandscape@pratt.edu, specifying which event(s) you’re interested in attending.

Event details:

• Tuesday, March 26 — "Forest": Rosetta S. Elkin in Conversation with Dilip da Cunha
• Lecture format discussion entitled “Forest” with Rosetta S. Elkin and Dilip da Cunha in conversation about what the word “environment:” means and how designers can relate with greater empathy. In conjunction with ARCH-652 — History/Theory II: Knowledge, Design, & Contexts
• Hosted by Sanford Kwinter, Gökhan Kodalak & Anna Maria Duran)
• 10:30am–12:30pm, Higgins Hall Auditorium

• Wednesday, March 27 —Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Panel with Nancy Prince, Kevin Quinn, Signe Nielsen, and Ellen Garrett
• Nancy Prince (Chief of Landscape Architecture, NYC Parks) and Kevin Quinn (Senior Vice President, Design & Construction, Hudson River Park) in conversation with moderator Signe Nielsen (Pratt MLA, MNLA)
• Hosted by Ellen Garrett for LAR-752 — Landscape Architecture Professional Practice I
• 12:30–2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

• Thursday, March 28 — Julian Raxworthy
• Book Talk: The Author will join us for a lecture and discussion of his award winning publication “Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening” that addresses how to fill the gap between Landscape Architecture and gardening.
• 12:30-2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway

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@nycparks
We're extremely pleased to be hosting three special events at the end of this month, from March 26–28, each featuring leaders in the field of Landscape Architecture. These events are open to prospective students, including our third-round applicants who have not yet submitted their applications, or are still considering applying and would like to know more about the program. If you’re a prospective student who’s interested in attending any of these, please email studylandscape@pratt.edu, specifying which event(s) you’re interested in attending. Event details: • Tuesday, March 26 — "Forest": Rosetta S. Elkin in Conversation with Dilip da Cunha • Lecture format discussion entitled “Forest” with Rosetta S. Elkin and Dilip da Cunha in conversation about what the word “environment:” means and how designers can relate with greater empathy. In conjunction with ARCH-652 — History/Theory II: Knowledge, Design, & Contexts • Hosted by Sanford Kwinter, Gökhan Kodalak & Anna Maria Duran) • 10:30am–12:30pm, Higgins Hall Auditorium • Wednesday, March 27 —Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Panel with Nancy Prince, Kevin Quinn, Signe Nielsen, and Ellen Garrett • Nancy Prince (Chief of Landscape Architecture, NYC Parks) and Kevin Quinn (Senior Vice President, Design & Construction, Hudson River Park) in conversation with moderator Signe Nielsen (Pratt MLA, MNLA) • Hosted by Ellen Garrett for LAR-752 — Landscape Architecture Professional Practice I • 12:30–2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway • Thursday, March 28 — Julian Raxworthy • Book Talk: The Author will join us for a lecture and discussion of his award winning publication “Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening” that addresses how to fill the gap between Landscape Architecture and gardening. • 12:30-2:00pm, Higgins Hall South Lower Level Hallway @prattsoa @prattgaud @julian_raxworthy @fwd_land @practicelandscape @mnla_landscape_architects @hudsonriverpark @sanford_kwinter @nycparks
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4/9
LAR-613 | Cartography II: Soil Making

Cartography II: Soil Making explores the link between how we sense the world and how we design it, utilizing soils as both medium and collaborator. In this course, first-year students study soils and site-grading in tandem, investigating the relationship between soil science and topographic design. 

To kick off this exploration, students visited Gerritsen Beach in January to collect soil samples and investigate the plant life and ecological processes that define the place. They’ll continue focusing on Gerritsen Beach throughout the semester, developing grading plans and models that respond directly to what they observed on site and through soil testing in the studio.
Course Instructors: Bill Logan @urban_arborists , Melody Stein @studio_visit_ 
@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
LAR-613 | Cartography II: Soil Making

Cartography II: Soil Making explores the link between how we sense the world and how we design it, utilizing soils as both medium and collaborator. In this course, first-year students study soils and site-grading in tandem, investigating the relationship between soil science and topographic design. 

To kick off this exploration, students visited Gerritsen Beach in January to collect soil samples and investigate the plant life and ecological processes that define the place. They’ll continue focusing on Gerritsen Beach throughout the semester, developing grading plans and models that respond directly to what they observed on site and through soil testing in the studio.
Course Instructors: Bill Logan @urban_arborists , Melody Stein @studio_visit_ 
@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
LAR-613 | Cartography II: Soil Making

Cartography II: Soil Making explores the link between how we sense the world and how we design it, utilizing soils as both medium and collaborator. In this course, first-year students study soils and site-grading in tandem, investigating the relationship between soil science and topographic design. 

To kick off this exploration, students visited Gerritsen Beach in January to collect soil samples and investigate the plant life and ecological processes that define the place. They’ll continue focusing on Gerritsen Beach throughout the semester, developing grading plans and models that respond directly to what they observed on site and through soil testing in the studio.
Course Instructors: Bill Logan @urban_arborists , Melody Stein @studio_visit_ 
@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
LAR-613 | Cartography II: Soil Making

Cartography II: Soil Making explores the link between how we sense the world and how we design it, utilizing soils as both medium and collaborator. In this course, first-year students study soils and site-grading in tandem, investigating the relationship between soil science and topographic design. 

To kick off this exploration, students visited Gerritsen Beach in January to collect soil samples and investigate the plant life and ecological processes that define the place. They’ll continue focusing on Gerritsen Beach throughout the semester, developing grading plans and models that respond directly to what they observed on site and through soil testing in the studio.
Course Instructors: Bill Logan @urban_arborists , Melody Stein @studio_visit_ 
@prattsoa 
@prattgaud
LAR-613 | Cartography II: Soil Making Cartography II: Soil Making explores the link between how we sense the world and how we design it, utilizing soils as both medium and collaborator. In this course, first-year students study soils and site-grading in tandem, investigating the relationship between soil science and topographic design. To kick off this exploration, students visited Gerritsen Beach in January to collect soil samples and investigate the plant life and ecological processes that define the place. They’ll continue focusing on Gerritsen Beach throughout the semester, developing grading plans and models that respond directly to what they observed on site and through soil testing in the studio. Course Instructors: Bill Logan @urban_arborists , Melody Stein @studio_visit_ @prattsoa @prattgaud
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5/9
LAR-652 | Landscape Studies II: Indigeneity 

First-year students recently met with Dr. Thai Jones, an archivist and historian at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Dr. Jones curated a selection of archival documents related to landscapes and the environment of New York City. 

Students had a hands-on experience in the archives. They examined documents ranging from 19th century photographs of Coney Island, to topographical maps of Manhattanville, to artistic renderings of the Brooklyn shoreline. 

After the visit to the archives, students explored Morningside Park. They discussed the environmental and social histories intertwined in the landscape, which sits between the Columbia campus and Harlem. 

Instructor: Amanda Martin-Hardin

📷: Payton Prendergast, Amanda Martin-Hardin

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-652 | Landscape Studies II: Indigeneity 

First-year students recently met with Dr. Thai Jones, an archivist and historian at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Dr. Jones curated a selection of archival documents related to landscapes and the environment of New York City. 

Students had a hands-on experience in the archives. They examined documents ranging from 19th century photographs of Coney Island, to topographical maps of Manhattanville, to artistic renderings of the Brooklyn shoreline. 

After the visit to the archives, students explored Morningside Park. They discussed the environmental and social histories intertwined in the landscape, which sits between the Columbia campus and Harlem. 

Instructor: Amanda Martin-Hardin

📷: Payton Prendergast, Amanda Martin-Hardin

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-652 | Landscape Studies II: Indigeneity 

First-year students recently met with Dr. Thai Jones, an archivist and historian at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Dr. Jones curated a selection of archival documents related to landscapes and the environment of New York City. 

Students had a hands-on experience in the archives. They examined documents ranging from 19th century photographs of Coney Island, to topographical maps of Manhattanville, to artistic renderings of the Brooklyn shoreline. 

After the visit to the archives, students explored Morningside Park. They discussed the environmental and social histories intertwined in the landscape, which sits between the Columbia campus and Harlem. 

Instructor: Amanda Martin-Hardin

📷: Payton Prendergast, Amanda Martin-Hardin

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-652 | Landscape Studies II: Indigeneity 

First-year students recently met with Dr. Thai Jones, an archivist and historian at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Dr. Jones curated a selection of archival documents related to landscapes and the environment of New York City. 

Students had a hands-on experience in the archives. They examined documents ranging from 19th century photographs of Coney Island, to topographical maps of Manhattanville, to artistic renderings of the Brooklyn shoreline. 

After the visit to the archives, students explored Morningside Park. They discussed the environmental and social histories intertwined in the landscape, which sits between the Columbia campus and Harlem. 

Instructor: Amanda Martin-Hardin

📷: Payton Prendergast, Amanda Martin-Hardin

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
LAR-652 | Landscape Studies II: Indigeneity First-year students recently met with Dr. Thai Jones, an archivist and historian at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Dr. Jones curated a selection of archival documents related to landscapes and the environment of New York City. Students had a hands-on experience in the archives. They examined documents ranging from 19th century photographs of Coney Island, to topographical maps of Manhattanville, to artistic renderings of the Brooklyn shoreline. After the visit to the archives, students explored Morningside Park. They discussed the environmental and social histories intertwined in the landscape, which sits between the Columbia campus and Harlem. Instructor: Amanda Martin-Hardin 📷: Payton Prendergast, Amanda Martin-Hardin @prattsoa @prattgaud
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Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students!

Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
Pratt MLA is collaborating with the School of Design @pratt_sod and Mather High School @matherhighschoolnyc students! Thanks to the inspired curriculum developed by Assistant Professor of Community Engaged Learning Irina Schneid @impact_wrkshp , our very own Visiting Assistant Professor Marissa Angell @angell_landscape is teaching landscape management and upkeep through workshops that integrate Landscape Architectural principles. Undergraduate students from Pratt work with High School students from Mather to engage historic areas of Governor’s Island through collective drawing and sensory mapping exercises in preparation for a studio-based co-design project that envisions new grower spaces. These exercises expand how land-based inventories evolve, including dimensioning with found objects, and blindfolding students to help them gain an understanding of non-material phenomena. Thrilled to work with excellent horticultural spaces through the leadership of Logan Fisher, Trust for Governors Island @governorsisland and Eve Brown, @grownyc who lend insight into design strategies due to their lasting relationship with plants.
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Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression.

Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services.

Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. 

@prattgaud
@prattsoa
@conquerthesoil
@thaisaway
Landscape Seminar Series 02 | Abra Lee & Thaïsa Way — Soil as Archive: Untold Stories of Black Gardening Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of hosting public horticulturalist Abra Lee, and landscape historian Thaïsa Way for a conversation about overlooked histories of gardens as sites of Black feminist organization, education, and personal expression. Lee discussed her research for her forthcoming book, Conquer the Soil, which focuses on networks of Black women growers in cities along the eastern seaboard. She spoke of flower sellers in Richmond, VA; Charleston, SC; Washington, D.C.; and Harlem, as well as how garden clubs throughout the country formed large-scale plans to beautify Black neighborhoods that seldom received public funding or attention from municipal services. Way provided insights from her own research and gardening practice, framing Lee’s work in the tradition of great writer/gardeners like the poet Anne Spencer, and emphasizing the importance of tending these neglected legacies. @prattgaud @prattsoa @conquerthesoil @thaisaway
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Pratt MLA is still accepting applications for Fall 2024! If you’re interested in applying, please join us this Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm EST for a virtual info session about the program.

The session will include an overview of the department provided by the Alexandra Barker, the Chair of Pratt's department of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design.

There will then be an MLA-specific breakout session with an additional introduction to the program, given by Academic Director Rosetta S. Elkin. This session will also feature a Q&A.

You can find an RSVP link for the session in our bio.

If you have any other questions about the program or application process, please reach out to us at studylandscape@pratt.edu.

@prattsoa
@prattgaud
Pratt MLA is still accepting applications for Fall 2024! If you’re interested in applying, please join us this Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm EST for a virtual info session about the program. The session will include an overview of the department provided by the Alexandra Barker, the Chair of Pratt's department of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design. There will then be an MLA-specific breakout session with an additional introduction to the program, given by Academic Director Rosetta S. Elkin. This session will also feature a Q&A. You can find an RSVP link for the session in our bio. If you have any other questions about the program or application process, please reach out to us at studylandscape@pratt.edu. @prattsoa @prattgaud
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