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Introduction

The Landscape Architecture Program at Virginia Tech is committed to discovering, developing, and disseminating knowledge related to the discipline and profession of landscape architecture. Our educational approach stresses the importance of mutual responsibility within the learning community and favors students who are devoted to actively pursuing their education. Students and faculty work together to achieve the highest standards of disciplinary and professional preparedness and to develop the capacity for lifelong learning and professional leadership.

The high level of preparedness achieved by our graduates has been recognized in the DesignIntelligence national rankings of accredited landscape architecture programs. For 2010, Virginia Tech's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program was ranked #1 in the nation, and the Master of Landscape Architecture Program was ranked #2. In 2013, the BLA program was ranked #2 in the nation, and the MLA program was also ranked #2.

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The first professional BLA degree program is comprised of 157 credit hours in four major study areas: Virginia Tech Core Curriculum (36 credits) Landscape Architecture Core Curriculum (97 credits) Supporting Professional Courses (9 credits) General Electives (15 credits minimum)

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The Landscape Architecture Program offers professional and post-professional Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degree options at the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia and in the National Capital Region (NCR) through Virginia Tech's Washington Alexandria Architecture Center located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.

Simultaneous degree programs for MLA students

Doctoral studies in architecture and design are for those students who desire to pursue careers in the research fields of advanced professional and academic practice and teaching. The program draws from the School faculty's diverse experiences and backgrounds to establish a climate in which scholarship and creativity can flourish.

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Former students garden plans finally bear fruit

Landscape Architect Carolyn Ramsbottom has graduated from Lincoln University but a special piece of design work she did while studying there two years ago will be coming to fruition on Labour Day.

While at the School Of Landscape Architecture (SoLA) in 2012 she and fellow student Gerrard Thomson won a competition to design reflective, cultural-based gardens for the Places of Tranquillity project.

These will being publicly unveiled next week at 3pm by project partners Lincoln University, Healthy Christchurch and Greening the Rubble. It has taken time to find suitable land, but they have finally been built on the corner of Manchester Street and Cambridge Terrace.

Both former students have gone on to careers as landscape architects but the design was their first public project and they are excited to see it come to reality.

Ms Ramsbottoms garden has a South East Asia theme and she has been involved in the layout right down to digging holes and putting in the plants.

It had to be (at the time) a 'temporary garden', able to be done by hand where possible and to be transferable to a permanent site later down the line. Working within these constraints as well as trying to create a tranquil space, and a great design was a challenge, she said.

It's amazing really and I still can't quite believe it. The prospect of seeing a design placed in the city centre is a real privilege and I can't wait to see it completed.

I just hope that it does what it says on the tin and gives a feeling of tranquillity, whatever that may be for an individual. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so time will tell whether it's a success, Ms Ramsbottom said.

She now works as a landscape architect and nursery assistant at a tree nursery and has free rein to design projects.

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Former Victorian government architect Geoffrey London speaks at a public forum "City in Crisis?" in August. Photo: Darrian Traynor

Try this game: Picture AAMI Park, the eye-catching stadium that resembles the trajectory of a soccer ball. The Cox Architecture-designed stadium lifts the Punt Road perimeter of Melbourne's sports precinct, but contributes to the fabric of the whole city. Now imagine it as a bland rectangular stadium. According to former Victorian Government Architect John Denton this was a narrowly avoided architectural own goal.

"The Cox scheme was right on the cusp of being chucked out and gone to a cheap, minimal-cost standard, rectangular thing," Denton says. "[Until] we stepped in."

Next, picture the Royal Children's Hospital without all the kid-friendly, fun stuff - the aquariums, murals. And, more importantly, without its restorative views of Royal Park.

AAMI Park and the Royal Children's Hospital are just two of the many public buildings improved by the support and intervention of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Since it was established in 2006 the OVGA has helped procure everything from the Melbourne Recital Centre to the Melbourne Convention Centre.

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But after the resignation of Liberal premier and architect Ted Baillieu the OVGA lost one of its major supporters. Under the premiership of Denis Napthine the government architect's office was relegated toTransport, Planning and Local Infrastructure from the powerful Department of Premier and Cabinet.

While a shift to planning may seem an appropriate fit for an architect's office, it was perceived as a demotion.

"The moment you go into planning and become just an offshoot downstream of the process, you have to work harder to be listened to," Denton says. "It makes it harder work just at an operation of government level."

Now against a backdrop of divisive planning decisions such as the East West tunnel and Fishermans Bend urban planning academics question how much influence the office still has.

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The Godsell house in Beaumaris.

"We lived in the weird house," says MPavilion architect Sean Godsell. "There was nothing really like it." The house designed by his father David in 1960 brought mid-west Americana to Beaumaris. A devotee of Frank Lloyd Wright, the elder Godsell translated Wright's vision of an ideal American suburban house to Melbourne's bayside.

The Beaumaris of the 1950s and '60s was itself an idyll suggesting what a bright suburban future might be, says Professor Philip Goad, who also grew up in the beachside suburb. "You had everything. The great modern house in a bush landscape, but you were still in the suburbs and near the beach. It was like 'holiday modern', but in the suburbs. It was one of those few suburbs where people were prepared to experiment."

For David Godsell that experimentation extended to Wright's Usonian homes, with their flat planes, projecting eaves and strong link between interiors and exteriors. From the street, Godsell's Beaumaris house is immediately defined by its cantilevered carport roof terracing down a slope. Designed as an everyman house there's a humility of scale, says Goad. "It's spatially and technologically lean and that's what Sean's work is as well. They're not about excess."

Athan House 1986-88 (Monbulk), one of Sean Godsell's favourite houses, will be open on November 30.

Architects are often reluctant to declare their influences and reveal the buildings that inspire them. It's too difficult. Centuries of architectural history offer so many references. Sean Godsell the architect responsible for such high-profile public buildings as the RMIT Design Hub has chosen six local influences for the latest Robin Boyd Foundation open house tour, including his family home.

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"I grew up in a house where the discussion was always architecture," says Godsell. "That exposure to architecture did two things. It made me want to do it. But it also made me query what it was at a certain critical point. That's where the work of architects like Robinson Chen were interesting. They were well-detailed, well-constructed buildings, but spatially in the sense of their materiality it's fundamentally different from what I only knew growing up."

For anyone familiar with Godsell's mature rational buildings and exploration of materiality, his choice of mid-century buildings will seem unsurprising. An admirer of clarity in architecture "It's a combination of skill and restraint" he's chosen Peter McIntyre's Snelleman house (1953), which snakes down a sloping site around a giant tree. "It's an interesting way to handle a very difficult site with a strong idea."

Several buildings reveal Godsell's interest in the experimentation between public and that most private of buildings, an architect's home. In the square, fortress-like exterior of Roy Grounds Hill house (1953) and its circular central courtyard we see the experimentation for the National Gallery of Victoria. Meanwhile Philip Goad sees in Robin Boyd's Walsh Street house (1958) and its suspended cable roof, evidence of the experimentation at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

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Santa Fe has its first mobile parklet.

Its called The Love Transfer Station and has been placed on a vacant lot just north of De Vargas Middle School on Llano Street. It was built out of an old dumpster by local sculptor Don Kennell, landscape architect Christie Green and students from YouthWorks, with seating as well as landscaping with appropriate plants like sand love grass and eversweet strawberries that will look a lot better in the spring.

Artist Don Kennell, right, shows of the parklet he helped build. Its called The Love Tranfer Station and has been placed on an empty lot on Llano Street near De Vargas Middle School (Eddie Moore/Journal)

PNM Resources Foundation has provided $50,000 for The Transfer Love Station and two other forthcoming parklets, part of the citys Re:Mike effort to redevelop the St. MIchaels Drive corridor. But trailers also can be used to move the parklets around town. San Francisco is cited as a place where parklets come from.

The Mix Santa Fe group is part of the project. Mixs Daniel Werwath said the parklets are intended as a way to make the area more pedestrian friendly. They could be combined, for instance, with a mini-retail business created in a shipping container and/ or a food truck to make something of an activity center, he said.

Mayor Javier Gonzales lauded the project as part of the effort to redo the St.Mikes area over 15 to 20 years. He said the corridor now is 73 percent parking lot and needs concepts like this to make it better.

Artist Don Kennell, left, and Christie Green, a landscape designer, take part in a ceremony on Llano Street Monday to open a parklet they built called The Transfer Love Station. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

The parket features lots of red color, hearts and arrows. It started with the bare essentials and then it got down to, love, said sculptor Kennell. It began with an idea that could bring the most people together in some form of agreement or participation in the project, something inviting- it was either that or green chili.

The parklet has a large red heart shaped water cistern that can collect rain water and also be filled with water to irrigate the plants.

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