Testimonials

Student

"Part of the intention of any studio program is that you learn from other students. People are really willing to engage with you, to share their experience and knowledge. There's a sense of collective so you feel that you are part of a community."

- Leslie Sherr

"We've had excellent instructors. They all have different critiquing styles, and you develop a design vocabulary by listening to them. They build on each other. Things you learn start to connect with ideas from other courses."

- Barbara Batcheler
Student

"The program attracts amazingly high-quality professors who are full-time practitioners. The professors are encouraging and inspiring."

- Nate Harris
Student

"It's a very streamlined, structured curriculum. The caliber of teaching here is exemplary in every single class. There are no bad classes, there are no bad teachers."

- Anna Mather
Student

"The studio experience was a definite highlight of the program. Working with other students has been great. We tend to be very collegial in our group, so we share a lot of information and are collaborative. That shared experience has been very valuable."

- Barbara Batcheler
Student

Faculty

"Plants are terribly important not just in people's backyards, but in civilized cities. When you make something beautiful, it brings people together. You see what it does for a community, for people, which is what interests me. You see your results. Improving parks has economic benefits, lowers crime, makes people happy, strangers talk to each other. It's wonderfully rewarding."

- Lynden Miller
Advisory Board Member, Landscape Design program, and Principal, Public Garden Design, and Director, the Conservatory Garden

"The studio experience is very invigorating. It reminds even me of the fundamentals of design. The studio teaches creative thought but also very scientific thought--artistic ideas meshed with the environment, the real world. It's very challenging but also very rewarding."

- Richard Alomar
Instructor, Landscape Design program, and Senior Associate, di Domenico + Partners, LLP

"The program shows you that garden design goes beyond a knowledge of plant materials. It's about how you organize and craft outdoor space. The program really transforms your understanding of successful landscape design."

- Leslie Sherr
Student