Program Overview

Landscape architecture involves designing and implementing opportunities for people to engage with the environment in personally comfortable, safe, and healthy ways. The practice of landscape architecture is concerned with the best ways to design landscapes that protect, enhance, and sustain the ecological and cultural systems that support all life.

The Landscape Architecture Program at Washington State University teaches students to create outdoor spaces that support human activities and that positively affect the environment.

From waterfronts to streetscapes, private patios to public pavilions, cities to countryside, the landscape architecture program at WSU teaches students to design environments that merge human needs and desires while protecting or enhancing natural environments, systems, and processes.