World Landscape Architecture Month<\/a>, a time to celebrate landscape architects and their impact in shaping our everyday environments. This year, World Landscape Architecture Month is celebrating \u201cLandscape Architecture in Action\u201d, highlighting how landscape architecture transforms ideas into places that support health, climate resilience, and daily life. To join in on the celebration, students from across campus came together for a sketch walk hosted by the University of Florida Department of Landscape Architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe event aimed to draw in students who might not be familiar with landscape architecture while providing a leisurely learning experience observing the landscapes of UF\u2019s campus. Landscape architects often incorporate sketch walks as an initial step in their design process, creating a landscape with paper and pencil before setting out to create the real thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Led by student organizations SCASLA and Understory with support from faculty, the sketch walk guided participants to look for key design elements in each landscape they encountered, and explained the foundational concepts behind good design and how to spot it. <\/p>\n\n\n