LA5901 Special Topics in Landscape Architecture

The practice of landscape architecture requires a working knowledge of ecology. The ecological understanding of practitioners is particularly challenging in the tropics, which feature some of the world’s most diverse and complex ecosystems. This course aims to equip students with the foundational knowledge (ecological principles; vegetation types; habitats) and basic skills (plant identification, literature reviews) to recognise habitat types, interpret ecological properties of a site, and to be able to design and critique landscapes from an ecological perspective. The course is conducted through lectures and field trips.