Cornell University

This collection of student work builds on the Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture's long-standing commitment to buildable design and the situated, material world.

Students approach design as an iterative, relational practice grounded in technical acuity, ecological processes, social complexity and material experimentation. Recent projects confront climate uncertainty, land degradation and uneven access to public space through layered strategies that integrate maintenance, succession, infrastructural adaptation and speculative prototyping.

The work presented here reflects a sustained commitment to landscape as a site of co-production, where climate adaptation and eco-social renewal are pursued through fieldwork and critically reflective practice.

This ethos aligns with broader disciplinary shifts toward regenerative and reparative frameworks and the embrace of hands-on management and care as design tools, while affirming the value of site histories (and futures!) held in material form and the potential of modest interventions to catalyze meaningful change over time.