Master of Landscape Architecture

Program Overview

The Master of Landscape Architecture at UTS equips students with advanced knowledge and skills to address critical urban challenges, such as densification, climate change, and resource scarcity. Through practice-based studios and collaboration with industry experts, students develop complex problem-solving abilities and advocacy skills to shape the future of cities and landscapes. Graduates are well-prepared for careers in landscape architecture, urban design, research, and other related fields.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Master of Landscape Architecture provides students with the opportunity to collaborate alongside celebrated practitioners from award-winning international design studios and leading experts in the area of urban design. Students engage in a variety of projects that are based upon the big questions that face global contemporary cities and landscapes: urban densification, climate change, declining resource supply (land, food and water) and the loss of biological diversity through ecological fragmentation and habitat destruction. Using the most relevant and up-to-date methodologies and technologies, students participate in practice-based studios to develop their complex problem-solving skills in order to address the critical role of landscape in the cities of the future. Students who do not meet the admission requirement prerequisites below are encouraged to apply for the Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture, and progress to the Masters via the Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture. By building advanced specialist knowledge, UTS students graduate with a range of advocacy, political and professional agency, project management and financial skills in order to tackle contemporary issues in local and global contexts. The Master of Landscape Architecture offers the opportunity for students to actively and critically consider the agency of landscape in the future city and become active in the discourse of what future cities may become through an integrated design-focused approach. Graduates from the Master of Landscape Architecture are well-equipped to tackle contemporary issues in local and/or global contexts through an expanded understanding of the most relevant and up-to-date methodologies, tools and technologies.

Outline:

Year 1

Autumn Session

• Interdisciplinary Studio
• Practice: Finance and Project Management
• Electives (Landscape).

Spring Session

• Design Research Studio
• Practice: Research Cultures
• Electives (Landscape).

Year 2

Autumn Session

• Master of Landscape Architecture Design Studio 3
• Electives (Landscape).

Spring Session

• Master of Landscape Architecture Thesis Project
• Practice: Advocacy
• Practice: The Profession.

Teaching:

Teaching Methods:

• The Master of Landscape Architecture is a two-year, full-time program that is delivered through a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshops, and studios.
• Students participate in practice-based studios to develop their complex problem-solving skills in order to address the critical role of landscape in the cities of the future.
• The program is taught by a team of experienced academics and industry professionals who are actively engaged in research and practice.

Careers:

Career Paths:

• Landscape architect
• Urban designer
• Researcher
• Land management professional
• Regional planner
• Educator

Outcomes:

Graduates from the Master of Landscape Architecture are well-equipped to tackle contemporary issues in local and/or global contexts through an expanded understanding of the most relevant and up-to-date methodologies, tools and technologies.