Woodbury University is expanding its architecture masters programs by adding a new MLA at its Barrio Logan campus in San Diego, beginning fall of 2016. The MLA will begin alongside another new program on the campus, a Masters of Interior Architecture.

With locations in San Diego, Los Angeles and Burbank, Woodbury is fully embedded within naturally dry (and currently drought-suffering) landscapes. Within this context, the final year of the MLA program will have students working with the Arid Lands Institute, a design-centered research organization associated with Woodbury that's devoted to developing sustainable solutions to the unreliable future of water as wrought by climate change. (ALI co-founders Charles and Hadley Arnold also served as jurors in Archinect's Dry Futures competition.)

"With a landscape architecture program at the graduate level," says Jose Parral, Associate Professor at Woodbury in San Diego, "we can bring a unique community together within the Southern California/Northern Mexico region to not only pursue issues related to climate change, but begin to imagine what this new world of dealing with climate change will be. As we witness changes in the urban environment, we need to review this larger neighborhood as our lab." 

The full press release is available here.