Landscape Architecture Ranked Top 10 Nationally by DesignIntelligence

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CPPLA student Pablo Hinojosa working on his collaborative studio project in LA 402L, Advanced Landscape Architecture Methods, with teammates Dawn Wang, Patcricio Yrizar and Kenneth Rodgers
CPPLA student Pablo Hinojosa working on his collaborative studio project in LA 402L, Advanced Landscape Architecture Methods, with teammates Dawn Wang, Patcricio Yrizar and Kenneth Rodgers
Graduate students in the Masters in Landscape Architecture Studio (MLA 606) win an American Society of Landscape Architecture Honor Award (2017) for their proposal Rendering Los Angeles Green: The Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS).
Graduate students in the Masters in Landscape Architecture Studio (MLA 606) win an American Society of Landscape Architecture Honor Award (2017) for their proposal Rendering Los Angeles Green: The Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS).

Cal Poly Pomona’s undergraduate landscape architecture program was ranked No. 10 in the nation by “DesignIntelligence Quarterly” in their 2017-18 list of America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools moving up one spot. The graduate landscape architecture program was at No. 11, advancing three places.

More than 1,900 U.S. firms and organizations employing architecture, design, and landscape architecture professionals, along with 111 deans and chairs of academic programs in architecture, interior design and landscape architecture participated in the survey for DesignIntelligence.

Landscape architects are concerned with the design, management, preservation, and use of the land. At Cal Poly Pomona, coursework includes study of landscape design and planning processes, graphic communications, ecology, plants and planting design, construction methods, environmental history and extensive field study. In most courses, students develop design proposals that include technical and creative solutions for actual sites, often with client or community involvement.

Project rendering for the Huazhong University of Science and Technology by the Cal Poly Pomona landscape architecture design team of Pablo Hinojosa, Kenneth Rodgers, Dawn Wang and Patcricio Yrizar. After participating in a week-long urban design workshop in Wuhan, China students are envisioning a new campus core that brings the campus community closer to the canals and lakes central to the campus community.
Project rendering for the Huazhong University of Science and Technology by the Cal Poly Pomona landscape architecture design team of Pablo Hinojosa, Kenneth Rodgers, Dawn Wang and Patcricio Yrizar. After participating in a week-long urban design workshop in Wuhan, China students are envisioning a new campus core that brings the campus community closer to the canals and lakes central to the campus community.

“We design the public realm, planning the spaces where we spend our public and private lives outside,” says Andrew Wilcox, chair of the Landscape Architecture Department. Landscape architects can make an extraordinary and positive impact on the lives of people and their environment through the design of the places we live.

“As one of the largest and most diverse programs of our kind in the nation, Cal Poly Pomona combines the technical foundations of a polycentric education with creative and cultural capital of Southern California to train bravely curious students to address the ecological and social challenges of the 21st century.”