Did You Know?

The first course related to landscape architecture was taught by the first president of Iowa State University (then called Iowa Agricultural College) in 1869.

A formal curriculum in landscape architecture was established in 1914, and the Department of Landscape Architecture was created in 1929. It became of part of the College of Design in 1978.

Landscape Architecture by the Numbers – Fall 2009

Undergraduate enrollment: 138

• Men: 91
• Women:47
• Iowa residents: 92
• Non-residents (U.S.): 34
• International: 12

Students in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program are from 11 states, including Iowa, and four countries in addition to the U.S.: Canada, China, Ghana and South Korea.

Graduate enrollment: 7

In fall 2000, the first Traveling Savanna Studio traveled 10,000 miles from Winnipeg, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas.

The Philip H. Elwood Lecture Series was established in 1997 to honor the legacy of professor emeritus Philip H. Elwood, who is credited with developing the Department of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State.