Applicants to the Landscape Architecture program are required to submit a portfolio.  The portfolio is used to assess your aptitude for visual thinking and design.

The portfolio contents may represent a wide variety of media, including freehand drawings, travel sketches, painting, printmaking, photography, garden design, pottery and other creative endeavors, as well as evidence of any knowledge of graphics software programs, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, and 3D modeling.  The total number of works should be 10-12.  Please include a brief caption with the title, size, project intention and medium of each work.

The portfolio format is flexible but the department prefers high-quality printed pages of images, spiral bound or displayed in a simple portfolio, 8.5" x 11" or 11"x 17." Please make sure your name clearly appears on all materials and portfolios submitted. 

Undergraduate Admissions directly to:

Professor Kathryn Gleason

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Landscape Architecture

440 Kennedy Hall

Ithaca NY 14853-4203

klg16@cornell.edu

(607) 255-1649

For Graduate Admissions, please send to:

Professor Daniel Krall                                      

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Landscape Architecture

440 Kennedy Hall

Ithaca NY 14853-4203

dwk5@cornell.edu

(607) 255-1802

If you would like your portfolio returned to you, please be sure to include a self-addressed stamped envelope.

If you have any questions about portfolio content or technical issues feel free to contact the appropriate Director noted above.