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

Landscape Design 3: Advanced Site Design

ARCH X 471.2

Applying site inventory and analysis with a site program, students create their design process and concept development using real sites in interesting urban and semi-urban environments. Use of computer modeling programs is highly encouraged.

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Spring
Summer
Hybrid
Starting at $1,269.00
As few as 12 weeks
5.0
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What you can learn.

  • Apply formal organizational techniques covered in Design 1 and 2
  • Develop design processes using diagrams through drawings, photographs, and models
  • Review and critique of existing conditions leading to site specific responses
  • Develop an understanding of how program statements can build in complexity
  • Using context analysis, program analysis, and each individual's intuition, show how the development of a basic idea, organizing principals and diagrams guides your project
  • Explore the vertical dimension by encouraging designing in section and using three dimensional drawings

About this course:

This course introduces the student to the landscape architectural design process, emphasizing site inventory, analysis, program, design process and concept development. Projects are mid- to large-scale sites you can actually visit, such as civic plazas, freeway capping projects, downtown urban redevelopment, etc. The design program for each project is defined by the instructor. Presentation graphics are both hand-drawn and/or physically built. Students also use computer modeling, rendering, 3D modeling, InDesign, Sketchup and Photoshop. Final presentation products utilize hand graphics with blended use of CAD and 3D modeling as background support only.
Prerequisites
ARCH X 471.1A Landscape Design 1: Site Design Basics; ARCH X 471.1B Landscape Design 2: Site Design; ARCH X 472.4F Design Graphics 3: Digital Rendering and Presentation Drawings. Working knowledge of a 3-D modeling or design software program.  Certificate student in the Landscape Architecture certificate program.

Summer 2025 Schedule

Date & Time
Details
Format
 
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Sunday, Thursday, Saturday
Available
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Instructor: Francisco Behr
403203
Fee:
$1,269.00
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Location: Field Trip , Remote Classroom
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Notes

No meetings August 28; Sept 4
This course format is a combination of live-online and in-person class meetings. 
Attendance at in-person class meetings is mandatory per the LATC credentialing of this program.
Required in-person field trips: Newport Beach Civic Center and Park, Sun., June 29; Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Saturday, June 28. 
Internet access required.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after June 19, 2025
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Discussion
Thu Jun 26, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Off-Site
Sat Jun 28, 2025
9:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT
Field Trip
Off-Site
Sun Jun 29, 2025
9:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT
Field Trip
Lecture
Thu Jul 3, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Jul 10, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Jul 17, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Jul 24, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Jul 31, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Aug 7, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Aug 14, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Aug 21, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Thu Sep 11, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
-
Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday
Available
See Details
Instructor: Francisco Behr
404186
Fee:
$1,269.00
Hybridformat icon
Location: Field Trip , Remote Classroom
Updating...
See Details
Notes

No meetings August 27; Sept 3
This course format is a combination of live-online and in-person class meetings. 
Attendance at in-person class meetings is mandatory per the LATC credentialing of this program.
Required in-person field trips: Newport Beach Civic Center and Park, Sun., June 29; Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Saturday, June 28. 
Internet access required.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after July 06, 2025
Schedule
Type
Date
Time
Location
Discussion
Wed Jun 25, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Off-Site
Sat Jun 28, 2025
9:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT
Field Trip
Off-Site
Sun Jun 29, 2025
9:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT
Field Trip
Lecture
Wed Jul 2, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Jul 9, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Jul 16, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Jul 23, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Jul 30, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Aug 6, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Aug 13, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Aug 20, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Lecture
Wed Sep 10, 2025
6:00PM PT - 10:00PM PT
Remote Classroom

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This course applies towards the following certificates & specializations…

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