Landscape Architecture, MA

Program Overview

This MA Landscape Architecture program at the University of Greenwich provides comprehensive training in landscape design, theory, and practice. Through hands-on design projects and collaboration with practitioners, students develop innovative approaches to landscape architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure. Graduates are equipped for careers in landscape design, planning, and urban design, and have the potential to lead award-winning projects. The program is accredited by the Landscape Institute and offers international guest lectures and access to state-of-the-art facilities.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course is designed for anyone interested in becoming a professional landscape architect. You’ll engage with landscape, urbanism, agriculture and infrastructure projects in the UK and abroad. The core component of the MA Landscape Architecture course is based in the design studios of our new state-of-the-art building in Stockwell Street. Students work with academics and practitioners to develop projects and review designs. You'll be pushed to develop innovative and distinct approaches to landscape architecture, culminating in a final design project and thesis. Teaching is informed by technical and theoretical seminars, with guest lectures from international artists, designers and academics. The course will open up career paths in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design. Graduates of the MA Landscape Architecture have gone on to lead design projects including the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the Eden Project.

Outline:

Full Time:

• Year 1:
• Design Research Methodologies (20 credits)
• Landscape Representation (20 credits)
• Professional and Technical Practice (20 credits)
• Advanced Landscape Design (30 credits)
• Landscape and Urbanism Theory (30 credits)
• Masters Project (60 credits)

Part Time:

• Year 1:
• Landscape Representation (20 credits)
• Professional and Technical Practice (20 credits)
• Advanced Landscape Design (30 credits)
• Year 2:
• Design Research Methodologies (20 credits)
• Landscape and Urbanism Theory (30 credits)
• Masters Project (60 credits)

Assessment:

On this course, students are assessed by coursework. All assessments are based on your coursework. Design modules provide weekly feedback, which provide guidance in developing your design and research work. Each course has formal assessments that count towards your grade.

Teaching:

The design projects are the main focus of teaching. Teaching is carried out through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops. Teaching takes place 2-3 days per week. Lectures, seminars or tutorials are normally attended by smaller groups. Numbers can vary more widely for modules that are shared between degrees. Students also take part in shared/collaborative modules with students on other creative arts course, providing a perfect opportunity to develop skills in group and teamwork.

Careers:

Landscape Architecture has been taught at University of Greenwich since 1965 so many graduates find employment through the expansive alumni network in London, across the UK and overseas. Some Landscape Architecture graduates work in architecture, landscape architecture or urban design practices. Other graduates have joined government design and planning offices to develop urban strategies and policy. Some graduates have also followed further studies through doctorate research.

Other:

• Address the critical processes of urbanization, such as extreme environmental events, shifting economic agendas, new forms of public space and the transformations to urban infrastructures.
• Benefit from the high international profile of the course, published research, and award-winning student projects in Landscape Institute Awards and International Biennial of Landscape Architecture.
• Undertake research visits to London’s art galleries (The Tate, ICA), museums (British Museum) and important landscapes (Kew Gardens, Royal Park Greenwich, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park).
• Study on a Landscape Institute accredited course to becoming a professional Chartered Landscape Architect.
• You will be taught by an experienced team, which includes senior academics and leading art, architecture, landscape and urban design practitioners from across London.
• You will benefit from international guest lectures and presentations from those working in areas such as art, design, landscape architecture and urbanism.
• All students on creative courses at the School of Design get free access to Adobe Creative Cloud and Lynda.com.
• Each year we organise a graduate show where our students can showcase their design projects.

Home

£11,000 £1,850 per 30 credits N/A

International

£17,450 £2,908 per 30 credits N/A