Professional Master Degree in Landscape Architecture

Program Overview

The Professional Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture equips students with the knowledge and skills to work in landscape architecture under a certified specialist or pursue further studies to become a landscape architect. The program emphasizes heritage landscapes, landscape management, and sustainable development, preparing graduates for careers in architecture, design, and research companies, ensuring high-quality and sustainable projects in both urban and rural areas.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Description: The Professional Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for work in the area of landscape architecture under the guidance of a certified specialist or to continue studies in the professional Master's degree study program Landscape architecture and planning obtaining the professional qualification of a landscape architect.
• Objectives:
• To understand the importance of heritage landscapes and natural heritage in the development of the economy.
• To develop guidelines, methodology, and recommendations for landscape management, protection, preservation, and restoration.
• To deal with problems of science and practice in consulting and design companies/organizations and national and municipal institutions.
• To apply acquired academic knowledge when dealing with ecological, aesthetic, and social problems of the landscape in preserving cultural and natural heritage and ensuring landscape sustainability.
• To organize the process of work in cooperation with specialists of related sectors, plan and manage the work, and work in teams by the project development schedule.

Outline:

• Year 1:
• Large-scale planning
• Territory planning processes
• Methods of landscape revitalization
• Development of a thematic plan
• Internship at a company
• Year 2:
• Basics of scientific research
• Theory of Landscape Architecture
• Research methods, data collection, and processing methods
• Landscape research skills
• Principles of sustainable landscape development
• Master's thesis

Assessment:

• Tests at the end of each course
• Course project
• Studio work-based training

Careers:

• Graduates work in various architecture, design, and research companies.
• They cover both urban and rural areas and ensure that implemented projects are high quality and sustainable.
• Our specialists can design different-scale landscapes such as residential areas, parks, shopping centers, parkways, golf courses, and school campuses.
• A Master's degree entitles graduates to continue studies in a respective Doctoral study program at universities in Latvia or abroad.

Tuition fee per year: 4000 EUR