Department of Landscape Architecture

By Eileen Brucato MLA '21

This thesis looks at the development of the historic "river culture" in the Tappan Zee region, and the role that habitat creation and maintenance could play in a new river culture moving forward, one that is adaptable to climate change and continues to connect communities to the river and its ecosystems as an important identifier and place-maker. 

By Yves Brocker MLA '22, Monica Rourke MLA '22

Generative Geometry proposes a planting and management strategy for a floodplain forest situated upon a series of buyout parcels in Owego, New York. 

By Liang Shi MLA '21, Xuan Zhang MLA '21

Wetlands contain the highest level of carbon sequestration efficiency compared to other types of green infrastructure. 

By Samuel Coons MLA/MRP '21

This thesis examines how designers enable abuses by municipal leaders in the images they make, using the northern leg of the Inner Loop highway in Rochester, New York as a site to reassemble the city’s traumatized matter.

By Jake Geitner BSLA '22

After conducting a rigorous analysis of the area, students in the LA 2020 studio were charged with proposing key points along the Seneca Lake edge that could benefit from being linked with a small boat / ferry connection.

By Lok Tim Chan MLA '22, Echo Xingjian Wang MLA '22, Eric Zhenrui Mei MLA '22

This project aims to provide a reimagination of the Kingsbury Run Nature Reserve for, with, and most importantly, by the surrounding local communities that have been long-underserved from a deeply embedded history of environmental injustice.

By Dom Malacaman BSLA '22

Developed for Associate Professor Martin Hogue's LA 6940 The City in Film seminar, this film documents three minutes of real-time in Boston's Park Street Station.

By Fath'Ma Shabi BSLA '24, Emma Uzgiris BSLA '24

Inspired by the vegetation studies of Roland Gustavsson, students teams conducted a transect study of the forested areas adjacent to Beebe Lake on Cornell's campus and created an 8'-10' long drawing that compiles their findings.

By Mark Hirschbeck BSLA '17

This project proposes subtle interventions in sedimentation processes and vegetation management to provide much needed habitat for migrating species.

By Federico Lia

This project examines new waterfront opportunities and amenities under the speculation of flooding conditions along the Troy, New York waterfront.

By Hong Gao MLA '18, Luyao Kong MLA '18, Qianli Feng MLA '18

Focusing on the issues of climate-resilient strategies, public spaces, and wetland restoration, this proposal coordinate nature, human and climate change with dynamic process and minimized earthwork.

By Lingyi Xu MLA '20, Yi Yang MLA '20, Songyi Zheng MLA '19

A bold projection of necessary transformations is applied in order to reinvent the Boston harbor island parks itself as a recreational area or to serve as a national park by enhancing its existing characteristics, amplify the opportunities for education.

By Vanessa Zapata Dikuyama MLA '23

The proposed design intervention on the western-most portion of the Bronx Crossing Park, spanning from the Harlem River to University Avenue, seeks to humanize the existing infrastructure, improve alternative mobility and restore access to nature.

By Jihany Hassun MLA '21

The site design suggests an articulation of historic assets in this locale to express an authentic, and truly Ossining experience.

By Jake Geitner BSLA '22, Dom Malacaman BSLA '22

This studio on the Erie Canal examined the hydrosocial geographies of the Onondaga waterway, dismantling canal attitudes and infrastructure in the region.