This course is an in-depth approach to design processes, traditional landscape graphics, and topics related to sustainable landscapes.
Through lectures and demonstrations, learn to produce professional-quality conceptual designs. Utilizing a home landscape, gain practice in process and design drawing. Learn to prepare a base plan by measuring a garden space, translating measurements to scale, and drafting a base plan. Get acquainted with design tools and online sources of information that are key to producing practical designs. In a final project, develop a creative yet feasible solution for a given site.
This course concludes with a small-group workshop with instructor Dan Maffei in which he will critique and provide feedback to participants’ work.
Certificate Information
This course is required for the Landscape Design Certificate.
Pre-requisite: Introduction to Graphic Communications.
Course Schedule
Wednesdays, February 19–April 2, 2025
4:00–6:30 pm
Additionally, students will choose 1 of 2 online workshop days:
Tuesday, April 8, 4:00–7:00 pm
OR Wednesday, April 9, 4:00–7:00 pm
Students will have access to recordings of the weekly lectures and online learning material for six months from the last day of class.
Location
Online, with 8 live-streamed sessions
Instructor
Danilo Maffei
Danilo Maffei is the founding principal of Maffei Landscape Design, LLC in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. With a background in design, public horticulture, landscape contracting, business and civic leadership, he brings to each project a positive and practical perspective on the way gardens enrich our experience and engagement with people and places.
His philosophy; gather experiences, not things. Objects alone do not make a garden better. Rather, it is the opportunity for people to meaningfully engage with the outdoors in all of its ephemerality and seasonal transformations that truly elevates the garden from merely functional to truly sublime. In addition to his duties as the leader of his firm, Mr. Maffei is a regular instructor and lecturer in landscape design and serves on the executive committee of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), where he was honored as a Fellow.
