[IN]MATERIAL
Today, where finite resources, various species, and distinct cultures are at risk, landscape architecture plays a vital role in achieving a sustainable future. This multidisciplinary f ield combines principles from architecture, arts, urban planning, conservation, and ecology to support the design of our diverse built environments. The Career Discovery in Landscape Architecture (CDLA) seeks to explore the foundational concepts of this discipline through a unique experiential learning, to discover its potential and significant role for our everchanging societies.
Landscape architecture documents analyses, studies, envisions and re-thinks the interaction between nature and the built environment. For this year, the CDLA2025 proposes the framework – [IN]MATERIAL – exploring the tangible and intangible layers of nature and the built environment through design.
The CDLA proposes to uncover and learn from these invaluable and vulnerable interconnections by exploring nature and collaborating with various organizations. Activities across the program allow students to reflect on the significance of the intertwined existing plants, animals, human beings and built environments in Hong Kong and to learn the wide presence of landscape design components within our cities, rural contexts and protected zones.
The course aims at providing students an overview of the essential aspects of the landscape architecture discipline by learning from the relationships between nature, humans and the built environment.
During this program, students:
- Learn from their reflections and experiences the value of nature in different contexts and its close relationship with the role of the discipline
- Expand the significance of nature from local to global perspectives
- Evidencing the importance of nature and landscape architecture in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts
- Experience working with a range of representation techniques commonly used in landscape architecture
- Explore and reflect on major topics in the field of landscape architecture
- Discover and develop landscape design processes and methodologies
Career Discovery in Landscape Architecture
Faculty of Architecture, HKU