We are focused on giving students the highly synthetic design abilities necessary to engage the complex socio-ecological landscapes of the 21st Century. Our students engage in a rigorous course of disciplinary and interdisciplinary training to explore and master skills and learn and develop knowledge with imagination and intelligence. You’ll learn to engage today’s wicked problems–from strategic and infrastructural planning of landscape resources at the scale of the Tennessee River to detailed design investigations of brownfields, parks, and yet unclassified landscape territories that continuously emerge as a result of larger socio-economic and -ecologic forces. Our curriculum provides students with the design, digital communication, and critical-thinking skills necessary for collaborative leadership on the multidisciplinary, multifunctional, multiscalar landscape projects that will define the future of the built environment. The design studio is at the core of our pedagogy. Across six semesters of studio or an optional final thesis, students are instructed in a wide range of approaches to design and design thinking.