The Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum Joins the Boston Architectural College
The Arnold Arboretum is pleased to announce that the Landscape Institute, which provides advanced education in landscape design, landscape preservation, and landscape history, will have a new home at the Boston Architectural College, located in Boston's Back Bay. The Landscape Institute at the BAC will be joining the BAC's professional degree and certificate programs in the spatial design professions beginning in fall 2009.
"We are delighted to bring together these well developed design programs," said Boston Architectural College President Dr. Ted Landsmark. "The Landscape Institute and the BAC are equally committed to design, history and preservation teaching by active practitioners. We are connecting the Landscape Institute's courses, faculty, students, intellectual assets and research interests, to the BAC's practice-based learning, library facilities, technology, open access, faculty, design firms, students, staff, commitment to community service, and on-line programs in sustainability and preservation. This collaboration will provide a powerful landscape design learning resource throughout New England and beyond. We look forward to building on the strengths of both institutions to expand teaching and research into important subjects from landscape preservation and planting design, to innovative green design, urban sustainability, and cultural landscapes."
"This moment is transformative for the Landscape Institute. This new collaboration brings our students the opportunity to pursue either a certificate from the Landscape Institute or to matriculate to the BAC's degree programs," said Heather Heimarck, Director of the Institute. "Landscape Institute students will now be an integral part of an academic community committed to comprehensive design education. I am very excited about our future."
The BAC, established in 1883, is a dynamic, open enrollment college offering graduate, undergraduate and certificate programs. The BAC is the country's largest independent college dedicated solely to spatial design: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainability, Preservation, and Interior Design. In adding the Landscape Institute, the BAC will expand its graduate-level course offerings, research capabilities, domestic and international travel programs, and community service opportunities.
"The BAC will oversee the future growth of the Institute and expand educational resources and student services," said Bob Cook, Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. "Harvard's educational ties to the Landscape Institute will remain strong, with the Landscape Institute students continuing to study plants and their role in the human environment within the Arboretum's renowned landscape and collections, which include more than 15,000 trees, shrubs and vines. We look forward to a rewarding partnership in the years ahead."
For more information regarding the transition of the Landscape Institute to the BAC, please contact Arnold Arboretum Deputy Director Richard Schulhof at richard_schulhof@harvard.edu.