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Are you ready to embrace complex environmental challenges? Are you an innovator with a creative spirit?
If so, landscape architecture is for you. Become a leader in the design profession where art, science and social justice connect—and discover vast possibilities.
The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) is a four-year professional degree program that prepares you to become a successful, licensed landscape architect. Our robust, studio-based curriculum is taught by award-winning faculty and designed to fully engage your artistic, analytical and inventive self.
What You'll Learn
In the BLA, you’ll learn:
- Landscape design history, theory and criticism
Design processes and methods
Professional communication
Advanced technologies and tools
Urban landscape ecology
Sociocultural design factors
Site engineering, construction and design implementation
Professional practice policies, procedures and ethics
Social justice and design for all
You’ll graduate ready to thrive in a profession of increasing importance in the face of climate change and growing urban populations.
I am constantly inspired by my peers, and the collaborative work environment encourages me to listen to different perspectives and think in different ways. At CAPLA, you feel like you are part of something bigger than yourself, which encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
Emma Nakpairat '24 BLA
The BLA offers a rigorous, comprehensive curriculum with dynamic core and elective courses that prepare you for professional practice as a licensed landscape architect.
We also offer an accelerated BLA path into our master’s programs.
Demand for trained landscape architects is high and growing in Arizona and the nation. Graduates can expect to work with allied professionals such as architects, ecologists, engineers and urban planners to design public and private outdoor places.
The CAPLA Student Experience
Studying design is unlike any other collegiate experience. You’ll find community not just with fellow students but also with faculty thanks to our proven studio structure.
And studying design in Tucson is unlike any other design experience, thanks to our Sonoran Desert laboratory, ecological sense of place and CAPLA’s state-of-the-art facilities.
Meet the CAPLA Community
Emma Nakpairat '24 BLA
Originally from Michigan, Emma Nakpairat came to CAPLA and the BLA program in Tucson to be inspired by the Sonoran Desert—and to combine her love of the outdoors with her thirst to improve our built environment.
Kenneth Kokroko, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Kenneth Kokroko, a CAPLA Master of Landscape Architecture alumnus, believes establishing a positive, collaborative and interactive studio culture is important for developing designers and landscape architects who can work together and think critically.
Mackenzie Waller, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Assistant Professor Mackenzie Waller's research builds off her ongoing interest in environmental and social justice and interdisciplinary collaboration, working to understand how practitioners, educators and spatial justice advocates create sustainable resistance.
Ready to create the future of sustainable environments?
Learn more about the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture by contacting us at capla-ugrad@arizona.edu or begin your application now: