北大自誕生一刻起就與一個(gè)負(fù)重前行的民族之命運(yùn)緊密聯(lián)系在一起，強(qiáng)烈的憂患意識(shí)和社會(huì)責(zé)任感是北大發(fā)展的原動(dòng)力，過去如此，未來依然如此。當(dāng)今中國(guó)面臨眾多挑戰(zhàn)，要求我們?nèi)ヌ剿鲬?yīng)對(duì)的策略，包括：史無前例的城鎮(zhèn)化，空前緊張的人地關(guān)系與資源環(huán)境危機(jī)，全球化與民族身份問題，傳統(tǒng)價(jià)值觀的重估與新倫理、新美學(xué)和新生活方式的開啟。這是歷史賦予北京大學(xué)的責(zé)任，正是出于這種擔(dān)當(dāng)，北京大學(xué)于2010年5月決策成立建筑與景觀設(shè)計(jì)學(xué)院，并任命俞孔堅(jiān)教授為首任院長(zhǎng)。新的學(xué)院在景觀規(guī)劃與設(shè)計(jì)研究中心（1997年成立），景觀設(shè)計(jì)學(xué)研究院（2003年成立）和建筑學(xué)中心（2000年成立）等三個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)基礎(chǔ)上整合而成。目前有教職工15位，包括雙聘院士1位，國(guó)家特殊人才計(jì)劃多人，教育部長(zhǎng)江學(xué)者1位。至2015年，學(xué)院已經(jīng)畢業(yè)的研究生400多名，博士20多名；目前在校碩士研究生總?cè)藬?shù)為277人，其中全日制風(fēng)景園林碩士專業(yè)學(xué)位研究生29人，在職風(fēng)景園林專業(yè)碩士研究生182人，地理學(xué)（景觀設(shè)計(jì)學(xué)）碩士研究生66人。

學(xué)院以倡導(dǎo)和發(fā)展生態(tài)文明為宗旨，進(jìn)行跨學(xué)科、跨尺度的人居環(huán)境規(guī)劃設(shè)計(jì)的科研和教學(xué)，旨在培養(yǎng)新一代人設(shè)計(jì)學(xué)科的領(lǐng)軍人才。多年來，學(xué)院廣大師生在兩大方面的探索，形成自己的特色：第一，探索生態(tài)文明理念下的多城鄉(xiāng)規(guī)劃設(shè)計(jì)的教學(xué)、科研與創(chuàng)新實(shí)踐，在國(guó)土、區(qū)域和場(chǎng)地三個(gè)尺度上，建立跨尺度的城鄉(xiāng)生態(tài)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施，并進(jìn)行基于生態(tài)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的國(guó)土、區(qū)域和城鎮(zhèn)的規(guī)劃設(shè)計(jì)；第二，探索基于生態(tài)文明理念和價(jià)值觀的新美學(xué)、新設(shè)計(jì)，包括新型城鎮(zhèn)化、新美學(xué)建筑、和新美學(xué)景觀。

學(xué)院得益于任彥申、閔維方和朱善璐三位書記，和陳佳洱、許智宏、周其鳳、王恩哥和林建華五位校長(zhǎng)近20年來的熱心呵護(hù)和精心培育，得益于北京大學(xué)各個(gè)部門眾多領(lǐng)導(dǎo)和老師的熱情支持和積極推動(dòng)，才使之成為今天未名湖邊的一顆燦爛明珠。

Peking University was born with Chinese people’s expectation to revitalize China.Great sense of challenges and social responsibility constantly fuels the university’s development. Contemporary China is confronted with a set of challenges such as unprecedented urbanization rates, tension between man and land, globalization and national identity, re-evaluating traditional value and new ethics, aesthetics and life style. In response to the responsibility of historical significance, Peking University, on 25th, May, 2010, promulgated to establish the college of architecture and landscape architecture. Dr Yu Kongjian was nominated as Dean. It is an integration of former landscape planning and design research center in 1997, graduate center of architecture in 2000, and the graduate school of landscape architecture in 2003. The college now has 15 faculty and staff, including one affiliated academician, one “Thousand Talent” foreign expert, one “Thousand Talent” national expert and Ministry of education Changjiang Scholar Professor. The college has cultivated more than 400 master and 20 PhD graduates. There are 277 masters studying in the college, with 29 full-time and 182 part-time Professional masters of landscape architecture (MLA, Master of Landscape architecture) and 66 Master of Science of geography (landscape architecture).

In pursuit of ecological civilization, the college applies an interdisciplinary and cross-scale strategy to the teaching and research on planning and design of our living environment and inspire a new generation of leading designers. Over the years, the college has featured in (1) innovate teaching, research and practices in urban and rural planning, especially the construction of urban and rural ecological infrastructure (EI) and EI-based planning and design across national, regional and site scales; (2) the exploration of new aesthetics and design based on the concept of ecological civilization, including new urbanization, aesthetic architecture and landscape.

The development of the college has been continuously fostered for the past 20 years under the leadership CPC Secretary Ren Yansheng, Min Weifang and Zhu Shanlu, and President Chen Jiaer, Xu Zhihong, Zhou Qifeng, Wang Enge and Lin Jianhua, as well as the great support received from various university departments. It is now polished as an ever-brighter pearl by the side of Weiming Lake.