Rutgers undergraduates and graduates in the Landscape Architecture Program continue to thrive as they meet their study requirements, engage the environment, communicate with neighbors and stakeholders and contribute to a more just future for all. Students, throughout the year, have engaged the profession and the university and their efforts have been duly recognized.

From department, school and university scholarships, to NJASLA Honor and Merit Awards to Olmsted Scholars, our student's work, dedication, creativity and vision is recognized.

 
And the program continues its tradition of sites and office visits.

This year the program explored the effects of climate. The Resiliency + Plurality Praxis Studios addressed resiliency and explored overlooked issues difficult to address or incorporate into the design process.

The investigation in 3 locations: Beacon on the Hudson River in New York, Historic Saint Augustine in Florida and the Rio Piedras Watershed in Puerto Rico addressed sea level rise in waterfront design, resilient design of historic sites and environmental justice/nature-based solutions, respectively.

The Hudson River Now! studio focused on a culturally rich and historic river, ripe with opportunities for landscape architects to reimagine its post-industrial waterfront considering climate change. The studio demonstrated how waterfront design can embrace sea level rise and reestablish native ecological communities along the coastline while simultaneously creating opportunities for people to access and enjoy the river.

The Historic St. Augustine Studio explored the oldest city in the continental United States. Since it is difficult to determine the historic relevance of a site, students were encouraged to discuss, explore, and embrace the plurality of people and their stories.

The PR 1493-2093 Studio studied, analyzed and designed for a community of residents in the Rio Piedras Watershed. Ecological and social aspects of place intertwined with nature-based designs provided a variety of planning and design options for green and blue stormwater management.
The studios demonstrated the strength of analysis and design and the impact and contributions of landscape architecture to the climate crisis.