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MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design

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    MA 1 year full-time (September start), 17 months full-time (January start), 2 years part-time (September start)

Course Description

Curious about landscape, urbanism, and working with nature as a primary design tool? Our MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design Master’s is the ideal step to furthering your postgraduate study and understanding how landscape and urbanism relate to architecture, nature, and the scientific and human dimensions of our built and unbuilt environments.

Besides examining the theoretical and practical frameworks for engaging with landscapes at the territorial, urban, and architectural scales, you’ll also be able to take part in current debates involving landscape, architecture, urban design, climate change, and sustainability.

Learn how to preserve and/or transform landscapes based on their geographical, geological, and morphological components, and how to design proposals that interact with both natural and artificial environments to create ecosystems. In your design, you’ll explore and use notions like sustainability, green infrastructure, renaturing cities, biodiversity, environmental design, and ecosystem services.

Entry Requirements

Qualifications or experience

A good honours degree in a relevant subject, such as

  • Architecture
  • Interior Architecture
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Urban Design
  • Civil Engineering
  • Building Surveying
  • Geography
  • Spatial Practices
  • Fine Art
  • Other design-related subject

English language requirements

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 (or equivalent) with no component score below 6.0.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

If you meet our criteria, you could get a £3000 tuition fees discount – visit website for details

Student Destinations

When you graduate with a Landscape and Urban Design Master’s degree, you can choose a career in organisations, including design practices, architectural firms, and multi-sector institutions.

The design and cultural skills, professional competencies, and expansive learning environment from this course will lead you to landscape and urban design jobs in:

  • Sustainable design
  • Consultancy
  • Non-government organisations (NGOs)
  • Environmental organisations
  • Regeneration projects
  • Heritage and Landscape Management bodies (such as National Trust and Historic England)

Module Details

There are both core and optional modules in the full-time version of this pathway.

Core modules

  • Research Methods – 30 credits
  • Thesis – 60 credits

Optional modules

  • Conservation and Practice – 30 credits
  • Conservation: Theories – 30 credits
  • Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences – 30 credits
  • Landscape and Urbanism: Territories and Systems – 30 credits
  • Landscape and Urbanism: Sites and Systems – 30 credits
  • Spatial Practices: Situated Ecologies – 30 credits
  • Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making – 30 credits
  • Work-based Learning: Opportunity – 30 credits

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