Camp at Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah.

2012 Admissions

Opening The Cultivated Wilderness, or, What is Landscape? architecture critic Paul Shepheard reveals that “this book is about seeing things that are too big to see.” He provides three clear frames to orient our recognition: “The Wilderness of the book’s title is the world before humans appeared in it, and the Cultivation is everything we’ve done to it since. Landscape is another name for the strategies that have governed what we’ve done.” Investigating earthworks or land art is a way of mapping the intersection of geomorphology and human construction. Earthworks begin with the shape of the land and extend through the complex social and ecological processes that create landscape. Including the full array of human activity marking the planet, from petroglyphs to roads, dwellings, monuments and traces of those actions, earthworks show us who we are.

Since 2001 Land Arts of the American West has been developing as an transdisciplinary field program expanding the definition of land art and our relationship to landscape. Land Arts is a semester abroad in our own back yard connecting the pedagogic potential of travel with the rigors of field research.

Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University seeks to cultivate collective energy within an expanded disciplinary range of examinations from architecture, the built environment, public culture, literature, science, and geography to explorations of contemporary art practices.

THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE IS RECRUITING STUDENTS FROM ACROSS TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY AND BEYOND FOR LAND ARTS 2012.

Application information is available here: 20110302_land_arts_application.pdf. The following schedule will facilitate the application and selection process:

Information Meeting on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 5:30pm in the Architecture and Art Courtyard. Meeting for all students interested in applying to the program. We will review the program goals and application details. Applicants outside Lubbock can schedule a Skpe meeting.

Application Deadline is on Monday, April 9, 2012, 5:00pm in Room 709 of the Architecture Building.

Notification of Acceptance will occur on Friday, April 20, 2012.

For questions or additional information please contact Chris Taylor.