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Program Overview

The bachelor's program in Landscape Architecture teaches students the basic principles of landscape architecture. The program focuses on training students' design skills for landscape architecture, teaching them to understand and design open spaces. This is supplemented with know-how from different disciplines which influence landscape architecture. This foundation prepares students to respond to the challenges cities and urban spaces are facing and design sustainable solutions.

Program Details

• Degree: Bachelor of Science
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Credit points: 180
• Program start: Winter semester
• Admission: Restricted admission
• Language of instruction: German

Admission Requirements

As for every other bachelor's degree program at TU Berlin, applicants must possess a university entrance qualification certificate to apply to the Landscape Architecture program. Generally, the Abitur serves as the university entrance qualification certificate. If an applicant does not have a formal university entrance qualification, they may still be able to study at TU Berlin if they can provide proof of certain professional qualifications. The Landscape Architecture bachelor's program is taught in German. If an applicant is applying with a foreign school-leaving certificate, they must provide proof of German skills at a specific level. This is a prerequisite for admission.

Program Structure

The bachelor's program in Landscape Architecture is a project program in which studios, that is specific projects in landscape architecture, play a key role. The studios enable students to work together in an interdisciplinary way on tasks and problems from the areas of landscape architecture, environmental planning, and ecology. They serve to teach and provide an opportunity to practice analytical tools (theories, methods, techniques) and develop model solutions on the levels of planning, society, construction, and design. The studio work also includes excursions. The program is divided into compulsory, compulsory elective, and elective components. The compulsory component encompasses a total of 132 credit points including the studios, projects, and bachelor's thesis. In the compulsory elective and elective components, students must take a total of 48 credit points.

Study and Examination Regulations

The objectives and structure of the program as well as the examination requirements and details on how the examinations are carried out are set down in the study and examination regulations. There is a proposed course schedule for the degree program. This is a recommendation for how to complete the degree program within the standard period of study of four semesters.

Content and Modules

The bachelor's degree program in Landscape Architecture is modular in design. A module combines curriculum content relating to a specific topic. Modules often include a variety of different study and teaching formats such as lectures, practical tutorials, seminars, and practical projects. Students are required to earn a specific number of credit points and complete certain coursework and assessments in each module. A current overview of all modules is available in TU Berlin's module transfer system (MTS). The MTS also provides an overview of which modules are mandatory for the degree program and which are elective. Detailed module descriptions provide information about the contents of modules, learning objectives, participation requirements, workload, types of assessment, etc. The module catalogue is based on the study and examination regulations.

Internships

As part of the professional project, students must complete an internship. This also serves as a prerequisite for registering for the bachelor's thesis.

Stays Abroad

Students can generally complete parts of the program abroad, either in the form of study abroad or internships.

Acquired Skills

As a student in the bachelor's program in Landscape Architecture, one benefits from a qualified education providing a high degree of subject expertise. The focus is on training landscape architectural design skills at all levels of scale across the spectrum of landscape architecture as well as the step-by-step planning methodology from concept to details to execution. The program's structure and focus on the many levels of design in the projects provide a great deal of freedom for individual interests and skills. Students can design open spaces and landscapes on various spatial levels and in different natural and socio-cultural contexts.

After Graduation

TU Berlin provides the unique opportunity to combine landscape architectonic education with special qualifications in the areas of ecology, environmental planning, nature conservation, and architecture and urban development. This form of teaching sound design, representational, ecological, and sociocultural principles in a way that is focused on how they interact creates the best starting point for a later professional career in landscape architecture. At the same time, the foundation is laid for the master's program, which qualifies students for management positions in architectural offices, construction and planning consortia, public administration, or in academia. A professional project and the possibility to study abroad open up more perspectives to the professional world and strengthen international networks.