Sustainability in Landscape Architecture in Mexico

This paper shows how the academic program in Landscape Architecture degree taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1985, takes the vision and focus on sustainability and incorporates within its methodological process for the development of design proposals in open space. It also mentions how students from understanding and learning that nature offers can develop a comprehensive project, capable of generating structures and human living environments. Turn highlights the importance role that plays the landscape architect as a connector of such interventions on different scales or levels. Finally, it stresses the role of landscape architecture as a discipline integrating and configuring open space, which allows multi-scale management to create and develop design proposals, designed as systems increasingly rich and complex, in taking advantage of all the values, site resources and potential to generate environmental, social and economic equity. Under this view, it can be concluded that the curriculum of this degree gives students the knowledge, skills and competencies, to better confront the new challenges of environmental, social and economic of our country.