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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
Department
Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
School
School of Architecture
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.

Academic Director, Landscape Architecture Program; Associate Professor

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Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor

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Signe Nielsen

Adjunct Professor

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headshot of Jacob Suissa, standing in a park, arms crossed, with pine trees behind him, and a path bordering with a gravel road

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Headshot of Benjamin Goulet-Scott smiling, wearing grey Champion t-shirt, with a large open field and forest behind him, torso-length image

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Bill Logan

Visiting Professor

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SCPS Lecturer; Visiting Assistant Professor

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Professor

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Visiting Assistant Professor

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Visiting Assistant Professor

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Sanford Kwinter

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Success Stories

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