Landscape Design 6: Concept Development

ARCH X 472.19

Concept development focuses on developing an ability to use drawings to model and manipulate visual information throughout the various stages of design evolution. Learn intensive drawing and design thinking.

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Summer
Hybrid
Starting at $1,019.00
As few as 12 weeks
4.0
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What you can learn.

  • Study a site with complex environmental, spatial, political, historical, and contextual issues
  • Generate solutions to complex design issues using research, deductive, and inductive thinking processes
  • Identify and develop conceptual models, diagrams, etc., applying site analysis, context, precedents, and other relationships/research, in order to explore and test solutions to design issues
  • Use hand and digital drawings as tools for visualization and design development of medium to large scale sites

About this course:

This course explores the use of drawings as tools for visualization and design development. The focus is on developing an ability to use drawings to model and manipulate visual information throughout the various stages of design evolution. Techniques for examining ideas and concept alternatives through composite, perspective, orthographic and axonometric drawings are explored. Lectures present examples of built projects and methods of recognized professionals, which illustrate the dramatic influence drawing type may have on the final form or organization of a design. The course requires intensive drawing time; students must have already mastered basic drafting and sketching skills.
Prerequisites
ARCH X 472.9 Landscape Design 4: Environmental Analysis and Planning.

Summer 2025 Schedule

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Sunday, Tuesday, Saturday
Enrollment Closed
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Instructor: Steven Chavez
403208
Fee:
$1,019.00
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Location: Remote Classroom , Field Trip
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Notes

Attendance at in-person class meetings is mandatory per the LATC credentialing of this program.
In-person class meetings - Sun., June 29; Sat. July 26 - Tujunga Greenbelt / Great Wall of Los Angeles 
This hybrid section is made up of in-person and live online instruction.
Internet access required. Materials Required.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after July 06, 2025
Course Requirements
Book: Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban Areas
ISBN 9780979970610
Book: From Fallow: 100 Ideas for Abandoned Urban Areas
ISBN 9781940743981
Book: Waterfront Promenade Design: Urban Revival Strategies
ISBN 9781864707441
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Lecture
Tue Jun 24, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Off-Site
Sun Jun 29, 2025
10:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT
Field Trip
Lecture
Tue Jul 8, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 15, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Jul 22, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Off-Site
Sat Jul 26, 2025
1:30PM PT - 4:30PM PT
Field Trip
Lecture
Tue Aug 5, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Aug 12, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Aug 19, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Aug 26, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Sep 2, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Tue Sep 9, 2025
7:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom

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This course applies towards the following certificates & specializations…

Landscape Architecture
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