Landscape Architecture in Kyoto, Japan

The Kyoto five-week summer program employs a unique experiential learning process that involves learning in the landscape of Kyoto and its surrounding areas. You will visit numerous places that enrich and enlighten the classroom, empowering you to pursue your intellectual interests on a daily basis. Treks through rice terraces and guided walks of old Kyoto add to the active pedagogical format of this summer program. The design studio engages urban landscape design projects such as the restoration and transformation of historic districts, open space systems of canal waterways and promenades, downtown plazas, etc.

Kyoto is an ancient city with numerous challenges as it integrates a twenty-first century culture with an exquisite eighth century landscape context.