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Course Description

This forward looking and innovative MA Landscape Architecture course offers you the opportunity to further your career as a professional landscape architect and give the first steps to become a Chartered Landscape Architect.

The MA Landscape Architecture course provides you with opportunities to explore responses to climate change emergency and biodiversity loss, and help in planning and designing meaningful, fair and resilient landscapes, places and communities of the future. Exploring these themes and issues is central to our common future and our Landscape Architecture course is very well placed to build employability skills that will position you at the forefront of these subjects.

The course stimulates a design studio culture and encourages high levels of research, design innovation, creativity and distinct ownership of ideas and concepts. We put an emphasis on contemporary practice and real-world projects aligned to develop the critical integration of theory and practice across scales, from landscape planning to master planning to detail design.

We invite applications from students with an undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture or an international equivalent.

What’s covered in this course?

This course is professionally oriented. You will build on existing knowledge and skills acquired in your Landscape Architecture degree and further develop creative, artistic, technical and intellectual abilities through a diverse range of design projects that explore contemporary issues and problems, which grow in scale and complexity. The format of studio learning is continued with an increased emphasis on research and experimentation. Design themes include research-led design projects relating to landscape health and wellbeing, habitat creation and biodiversity, climate change, settlement design and food security as well as large infrastructure schemes like High Speed 2 (HS2) and the West Midlands National Park. The landscape as a sequence of interrelated designed environments provides the scope for a design laboratory connected by land, ecology, water, climate and infrastructure, linked to a cultural context that extends from parish to global political and economic systems.

Our modules, including our new Design for Climate Change module, provide a fascinating forum for systems scale interventions, innovation and exploration of new sustainable approaches to respond to the climate change emergency, imaginative solutions to extreme weather events, biodiversity loss and for the planning and designing of ecologically inspired places and communities.

Entry Requirements

  • BA Hons / BSc degree in Landscape Architecture, Garden Design or overseas equivalent, minimum Lower Second-Class (2:2).
  • Applicants should have a portfolio demonstrating their critical thinking, technical abilities and creative process in a range of media.
  • IELTS 6.0 overall with 5.5 minimum in all bands.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

There are various funding options, including loans, scholarships and bursaries.

Student Destinations

This MA Landscape Architecture course aims to provide graduates with a set of attributes which prepare them for their future careers. You will be able to:

  • Produce complex design proposals understanding the current global professional issues and contemporary Landscape Institute policy.
  • Gain confident skills and knowledge as a designer to respond to the issues of Climate Change which will position you at the forefront of these subjects.
  • Work on live projects, and with real clients, with confidence.
  • Work independently and collaboratively in multi-disciplinary environments.
  • Be a creative thinker to solve problems in wider professional contexts.
  • Negotiate, plan and communicate your designs to a professional standard.
  • Work with Industry standard IT, e.g. AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Adobe Suite, Edina Digimap, and other digital modelling.

Module Details

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