Summer Enrollment is Open! Courses begin June 23, 2025.

Design Graphics 1: Drafting and Drawing of the Built Environment

ARCH X 472.4D

Using Tongva Park, students study design, program, and planting. Drawing, observing, and creating a hand-drawn plan are the outcomes.

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As few as 11 weeks
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What you can learn.

  • Acquire working knowledge and use of scale, scale conversions, and proportions
  • Acquire working ability to use a drafting and drawing process
  • Acquire working understanding of 1- and 2-point perspective
  • Demonstrate the ability to make detailed observations of the built environment and apply them to graphic communication and decision making
  • Acquire the ability to select, draft and draw a section line and elevation from a 2D layout plan and express the 2D information in a drawn 3D vignette – 1- and 2-point perspective

About this course:

Students learn introductory drafting, lettering and drawing techniques as they relate to the field of Landscape Architecture and professional standards. All work product is developed from Tongva Park, a real site located in Santa Monica. At the end of this course, students make a presentation to the instructor and visiting guests. The students present a package of work product that includes hand drafting of a dimensioned site plan, section/elevations and perspective sketch.

Summer 2025 Schedule

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Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Saturday
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Instructor: David Squires
403210
Fee:
$1,019.00
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Location: UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood , Field Trip , Remote Classroom
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Notes

Attendance at in-person class meetings is mandatory per the LATC credentialing of this program.
In-person field trip to Tongva Park in Santa Monica on Sunday, Aug. 10th required.
In-person studio on Saturday, August 23 required. 
Course format is a combination of live-online and in-person class meetings.
Two webcams required for this drafting course, cell phone camera is not allowed.
Articulating Arm for camera mount required.
Internet access required. Materials required.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after July 06, 2025
Course Requirements
Book: Basic Drafting: A Manual for Beginning Drafters by Leland Scott
©2006 Trafford Publishing
ISBN 1412096766
Book: Architectural Drafting: Procedures & Processes by Marcia G. Martin
©1997 Stipes Pub Llc
ISBN 087563768X
Book: Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces by Grant Reid
©2002 Watson-Guptill
ISBN 0823073335
Book: Perspective Without Pain (North Light 20th Anniversary Classic Editions) by Phil Metzger
©1992 North Light Books
ISBN 0891344462
Book: Van Nostrand Reinhold manual of rendering with pen and ink (Van Nostrand Reinhold manuals) by Robert W Gill
©1984 Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN 0442228244
Book: Pencil Magic by Phil Metzger
©2004 North Light Books
ISBN 1581805845
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Lecture
Mon Jun 23, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jun 24, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 1, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 8, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 15, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 22, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 29, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Aug 5, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Off-Site
Sun Aug 10, 2025
9:00AM PT - 5:00PM PT
Field Trip
Lecture
Tue Aug 12, 2025
6:30PM PT - 9:30PM PT
Remote Classroom
Off-Site
Sat Aug 23, 2025
9:00AM PT - 5:00PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 204 ABC

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This course applies towards the following certificates & specializations…

Landscape Architecture
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