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The University of Georgia boasts the largest landscape architecture faculty anywhere. As the oldest state-chartered university in the country, Georgia also provides an ideal laboratory for learning historic preservation. Georgia’s College of Environment and Design provides education that is distinctively       broad and adaptable to the interests of individual students.

Circle Gallery

Experiencing the Cherokee Landscape

(UGA Institute of Native American Studies; students from Alfie Vick’s 2009 Maymester class) Student research, documentation and design associated with constructing an interpretive 1710-era Cherokee village. The reception will welcome participants from the Symposium for the Institute of Native American Studies on campus that day. Exhibit runs Feb 3-24; reception Feb 19.

Owens Library

The Owens Library, named after Hubert Bond Owens, founder of the College, is located in G14 Caldwell Hall. Offering a collection of books, journals, masters theses, senior capstone projects, videos, reference materials, maps, and electronic resources related to Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation, it is open to the public as well as the UGA community.

Founders Memorial Garden

The Founders Memorial Garden commemorates the founders of America’s first garden club, the Ladies Garden Club, organized in Athens in 1891. The garden was developed by the University’s landscape architecture department and the Garden Club of Georgia.

Founders Garden House

The Founders Garden House, adjacent to the Founders Memorial Garden, is Greek Revival style and was built in 1857. Originally built as a faculty residence, the house has served many University functions over the years which include housing the Department of Landscape Architecture during the 1940’s and 1950’s. The Garden Club of Georgia restored and occupied the house as its state headquarters from 1963 to 1998.