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College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources


Office Address:
St. John Plant Sciences Lab
Room 110

Contact Information:
Tel: 808-956-7958
Fax: 808-956-3894
Email: kaufmana@hawaii.edu

Office Hours:
By appointment

Mailing Address:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
3190 Maile Way, St. John 102
Honolulu, HI 96822
Welcome to the Tropical Landscape & Human Interaction Lab
Dr. Andy Kaufman, ASLA, MLA, Ph.D.

Associate Professor / Landscape Specialist
Instruction


TPSS/ARCH 352 field trip to Leland Miyano’s garden
TPSS/ARCH 352 field trip to Leland Miyano’s garden

Dr. Kaufman giving instruction during an irrigation campus landscaping project.
Dr. Kaufman giving instruction during an irrigation campus landscaping project.

TPSS/ARCH 353 students taking site measures for a design project.
TPSS/ARCH 353 students taking site measures for a design project.

TPSS 350  (Tropical Landscape Practices) Landscape Installation & Maintenance.
Concepts and techniques of landscape installation and management in the tropics.
This course is structured in a holistic manner to synthesize the landscape industry through the understanding of plant-people interactions, landscape maintenance, installation and the relationship to design.

TPSS/ARCH 352  Landscape Architecture History, Theory, and Practice.
Survey of the development of landscape architecture as an art form from Mesopotamia to the present. Exploration of the profession and art of landscape architecture in the United States, Europe, the Americas, and Asia in relation to prevailing physical environment, social, economic, political, and cultural factors. Students will study place attachment, people-plant relationships, environmental attitudes and perception, personal space, urban public space, diversity, and the participation of space to understand the dynamic impacts humans have on the environment through time

TPSS/ARCH 353  Tropical Landscape Planting Design and Graphics Studio.
Through lecture and design studio formats, theoretical design concepts will develop functional and sustainable landscape planting designs which take into account the socio-cultural, economic, artistic, environmental and aesthetic qualities of the built and natural landscape.  Students will develop basic skills of landscape graphic communication to clearly articulate the ability to think, analyze and extend a physical solution in the proper scale through the design process in the tropics. Through the understanding of plant-people relationships, landscape installation maintenance, this course will be structured in a holistic manner to synthesize the practical and theoretical contributions of landscape graphics and planting design.

TPSS 667 Graduate Seminar: Human Issues in Horticulture/People-Plant Relationships.
This course will introduce physiological, psychological, and sociological research within the areas of Human Issues in Horticulture (HIH) and People-Plant Relationships (PPR). Focusing of acquiring knowledge of social science research methodology; Refining ones presentation and research skills; Able to read, critique, and discuss scientific articles that examine the impacts of plants affect on people; Addressing these impacts both theoretical and practical; Expand and nurture ones scientific curiosity enabling you to “look, think and articulate outside as well within the box”.

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