Introduction 學系介紹

The Dept. of Landscape Architecture was called “The Dept. of Landscape and Gardening”, authorized by the Ministry of Education and established in 1981. It belonged to the College of Agriculture and was the first undergraduate program in Taiwan that promote landscape and architecture education, and nurture professionals in this field.

In order to make landscape development known to the public, categorized by one of the specialized domains, met the needs of professional trends and practical purposes so that students can work as professionals and practice what they learn, the name was changed to—The Dept. of Landscape Architecture in 1994, and the graduate institute began its enrollment in the year 2002. We have enrolled for 42 years, and each class for a year until now. Under the efforts of the first, second chairman, Dr. 吳梓 , Dr. 董美貞 and the present dean Dr. 郭瓊瑩 , we have fostered about 3000 students, working in various academic, administrative institutions and practice offices. With the collaboration of all of our faculty members and students, our department is doing better and better, and establishing higher academic prestige.

Teaching Characteristics 教學特色

1. Our main goals are as follows:
   1. By the integration of natural resources, ecological environment and landscape planning, we design specialized courses and techniques and make it a systematic science.
   2. Enhance the analysis and research of human and science resources as well as the profoundness and scope of planning.
   3. Extend the cooperation and academic exchange of our department and other relative departments, lay the foundation of the ability of solving environment problems and other communicative, integrative capability. The word “landscape” is a specialized term, which widely applies to science human and art field. It has the responsibilities of overall planning, research, evaluation, design, construct, supervise, manage and maintain. Its professional development has worked for over a hundred years, but it is still a newly risen business in Taiwan. Thus, our goal is to develop landscape specialists to meet the needs of social trends, improve the present quality of the environment in Taiwan and solve various substantial problems in Taiwan.
2. “Landscape” is a professional domain that combines academic and practical training. Thus, we have the following features:
   1. Foster diversified, specialized education
      Landscape architecture is a newly risen domain whose teaching missions focus on the inter-relation of human and the environment, ecology, and landscape resources. Also we want to make students understand the limit of the space, environment, and the give them training so they can have the ability and potential to make the best planning. Therefore, the final goal lies in the consideration of the eternal good of all mankind and balance of the ecology. Relevant courses three fields include environmental science, environmental art, humanities.(ecology, soil, geology, hydrology, animals, plants, behavior studies, aesthetics, the history of landscape…ect.) Courses training which base on these studies comprise core classes such as environment planning, landscape design, landscape engineering, horticulture design, green planning and landscape practice…ect.
   2. Landscape architecture is a profession that applies the theory of science, art to the research, planning, design and management of natural or artificial environment. The creators who are in this profession—the architecture designers, must put their originality and skills in use, also add other scientific, cultural, and policy knowledge to handle natural and artificial elements of the environment, and arrange them orderly. The outcome must make all the users feel useful, beautiful, safe, and provide pleasant, joyful atmosphere.
   3. Cultivate the knowledge and techniques of professional landscape practice In order to attain the goals of landscape conservation, moderate development , proper beautify and intensify, the professional landscape architecture practice include:
      a. Investigate, choose and confirm the viability and the proper use of environment resources.
      b. Regulate, study, design the standards of construction.
      c. Make the outline plans for evaluation, analysis for the land development.
      d. Study the overall base plans, soil preparation of the landscape engineering and the drainage system.
      e. Coordinate the construction of roads, bridges and civil engineers. Under the principles of balance of beauty and function, make these land engineering meet the needs.
      f. Coordinate and enforce land development, use project.
      g.Undertake the supervision, ratification of the construction, conservation or managementmaintain of the base.
   4. Expand the scale of environment design, and give students training of overall thinking ability. In terms of the nature of landscape profession, its space order has a wide range:
      a. garden, community, park and green
      b. interior design
      c. open space system
      d. urban landscape, urban space
      e. the environment design, evaluation of recreational area, scenic spot, a wide field, natural resources, and regional land….ect.
   5. Implement professional landscape ethics and vocational education:
      Landscape profession is an integrated service industry. It involves the cooperation and coordination between different professions, and it is closely relevant to public engineering, environment construction. Future courses will put its emphasis on the ethics and vocational moral education as well as elevate students' landscape ideology and their cognition of responsibility of the society.

Course Highlights 課程重點

Due to the current environmental condition and the consideration of the need of the professional market as a whole in Taiwan, there is tremendous need for the experts with substantial basis in the field of environmental design, among whom savants with special proficiency in city landscape, leisure recreation, community development, public green land, and the design of open space system are mostly desired.

So, the current teaching guideline of the department of landscape takes environmental design as the core. With intersecting courses, students may, on the basis of environmental resources, be trained to attain the ability in doing research in, analyzing, designing, and integrating fields with different functions, spatial sequences, and goals. Under the instruction of professional teachers, students will be instilled with both knowledge and skills, with some further instructions in lifetime education.

To fit the policy of the general courses in schools, the emphasis of curriculum design of the department of landscape is laid, in the first school year, on basic science, environmental lifestyle, painting skills, and the construction and inspiration of some basic ideas. In the second school year, the emphasis is put, in addition to some basic training on thinking and designing, on learning every single environmental resources and landscape units. In the third school year, we emphasize on the application and training of environmental designing method, which means that students will be taught to make analysis, induction, evaluation, and integration logically. Also, the variation of spatial measurement will be incorporated to enhance students' ability in handling the need of multiple functions and different goals, as well as the relationship between human beings and the environment. In the fourth school year, students are particularly asked to integrate their professional knowledge and skills, to manage environmental resources, and, for the coming graduates, to have a clear and correct understanding of their specialized career.

Graduates from the department of landscape may have multiple channels through their careers and chances for further researches. In the previous years, several graduates went abroad to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan for further studies. After they got their master or doctoral degrees, they came back to their own schools to teach, or to have their own businesses. In the recent years, due to the increasing establishment of related graduate schools in Taiwan and the growing number ofresearches, graduates from the department may enter some privately-owned company of designing and counseling, or construction companies. In addition, several have their carriers in the related department and research development organizations in either central or local government. In this way, they may have great contribution to the spreading of their professional ideas and the promotion of the quality of the national.

Future 未來發展

Graduates from the department of landscape may have multiple channels through their careers and chances for further researches. In the previous years, several graduates went abroad to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan for further studies.

After they got their master or doctoral degrees, they came back to their own schools to teach, or to have their own businesses. In the recent years, due to the increasing establishment of related graduate schools in Taiwan and the growing number of researches, graduates from the department may enter some privately-owned company of designing and counseling, or construction companies. In addition, several have their carriers in the related department and research development organizations in either central or local government. In this way, they may have great contribution to the spreading of their professional ideas and the promotion of the quality of the national environment.

A. The main ways for further study:
a. Study in our country (a domestic place): Graduate Institute of Landscape Architecture, Graduate Institute of Department of Horticulture, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, Graduate Institute of Tourism, Graduate Institute of Natural Resource, Graduate Institute of Environment Education, etc.

b. Study abroad: Graduate Institute of Landscape Architecture, Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, Graduate Institute of Regional Planning, Graduate Institute of Park and Recreation, Graduate Institute of Environment Design, etc.

B. Ways for jobs:
a. Private Service for planning and design: Consulting Company for Engineering, Architect Office, Landscape Architecture Planning Company, Construction Company, Nursery or Horticulture Company as a Landscape Architect or Landscape Designer

b. Service at government organizations: Construction and Planning Administration, Minister of Interior, National Park Administration, Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications or Landscape Administration for Specific Areas, Urban Planning Administration at each County or City Government, Works Bureau, Department of Economic Development, Park Administration, etc.

c. Relevant jobs and research development: Landscape Construction, Product Development for Landscape Facilities, Trade of Landscape Materials, Recreational Development, Conservation, Research Development on Environment Education, etc.

Scholarships 獎學金

There are two scholarships for our Department:
a. Departmental Scholarship
b. Enterprise Scholarship

Cooperation Project 實習與產學合作

According to the claim of equal focus on academic research and practice in our Department, students are encouraged to have practical trainings at relevant public or private professional organizations during their summer vacation.

We are actively involved in developing research policy, community construction, and enacting laws with relevant public organizations.