Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
1920s
Professor Joseph Plummer Pillsbury initiated developing a curriculum in landscape architecture, which was was established as a component of courses in the Department of Horticulture.
1930s
Elizabeth Lee Lawrence became the first woman to earn a BS in landscape architecture.
1940s
The Division of Landscape Architecture was established in the Department of Horticulture.
The Department of Landscape Architecture was established in the newly created College of Design, known at its founding in 1948 as the School of Architecture and Landscape Design.
E. G. Thurlow1950s
The Department of Landscape Architecture received accreditation from the American Society of Landscape Architects and became the second to do so in the South, and one of only ten accredited schools in the U.S.
Dean Henry Kamphoefner looking at model of a city1960s
Richard Alan Moore portrait
Lewis J. Clarke portraitIn 1968, North Carolina State University approved the Master of Landscape Architecture degree and replaced the five-year bachelor's degree with a four-year Bachelor in Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture degree.
Richard R. Wilkinson portrait1980s
Deborah Dalton was the first woman to serve as acting department head for the Department of Landscape Architecture.
Deborah Dalton portraitFernando Magallanes became the first Latinx faculty member in landscape architecture.
1990s
The Department of Landscape Architecture reintroduced the five-year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree in 1994.
