Program Overview

Landscape Architecture Program

Program Description

Landscape Architecture Engineering solves real-life problems by applying knowledge, experience, and skills to find the best solutions. Engineers help define and refine the way of life by providing innovative, high-performance, safer, cleaner, or more comfortable daily-used facilities for human beings. The products of Landscape Architecture engineering activities are intended to be sustainable.

Career Prospects

Landscape architects typically work across five main areas: landscape design, landscape management, landscape planning, landscape science, and urban design. Alternative careers for landscape architects include:

• Conceptual Landscape Developer
• Landscape Planner
• Greenway Initiator
• Landscape Assessor
• Landscape-Architect
• Garden Designer
• Landscape Contractor
• Designer-Builder
• Product Design/Manufacture
• Public services and Tourism Planner

Typical employers of landscape architects include architecture and urban planning consultancy, the construction industry, real-estate developers, local authorities, private practices, public bodies, water networks companies, and roads companies.

Program Objectives

In addition to the competences for all Engineering Programs, the Landscape Architecture Program graduate must be able to:

• Create architectural, urban, and landscape designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements
• Integrate the relationship of structure, energy systems, landscape materials, and construction elements into the design process in different scales
• Discuss, search, and formulate informed opinions appropriate at a specific context and circumstances affecting landscape architecture profession and practice
• Judge landscape architecture decisions considering balanced costs, benefits, safety, quality, reliability, and environmental impact
• Propose creative and innovative solutions for problems facing landscape architecture projects
• Professionally merge the engineering knowledge and landscape architecture, understanding, and feedback to improve design, products, and/or services
• Deal with sensitive spaces and locations using the required understanding for human needs and socio-economic dynamics
• Use and apply information technology and contemporary computer applications while dealing with landscape architecture issues
• Prepare design project briefs and documents; and understand the context of the landscape architect in the construction industry
• Generate ecologically responsible, environmental conservation, and rehabilitation designs

Courses

To get a Bachelor of Science Degree in this program, the following set of courses need to be completed:

• University Requirements Courses
• Faculty Requirements Courses
• ARC111s: Principles of Architecture Design Studio
• ARC112s: Creativity and Design Studio
• ARC131s: History of Arts and Architecture (1): Ancient Civilizations
• ARC132s: History of Arts and Architecture (2): History of Islamic and Western Architecture
• ARC141s: Architectural Representation
• ARC142s: Digital Presentation of The Built Environment
• ARC151s: Building (1): Conventional Construction Systems
• ARC152s: Building (2): Finishing Works
• ARC241s: Modeling of The Built Environment
• ARC254s: Building (3): Landscape Construction
• ARC261s: Control of Thermal Environment
• ARC262s: Principles of Sustainable Architecture
• ARC351s: Working Design (1): Execution Drawings Coordination, Annotating, and Coding
• ARC352s: Working Design (2): Blow-Ups Detailing, Items Specifications, and BOQs
• ARC364s: Outdoor Lighting and Effects
• ARC368s: Soundscape and Aural Architecture
• UPL211s: Context and Place Design Studio
• UPL212s: Principles of Urban Design and Landscape
• UPL213s: Mixed-use Design Studio
• UPL221s: History and Theory of Urbanism
• UPL311s: Urban and Landscape Design Studio
• UPL341s: Horticulture and Garden Design
• UPL342s: Arid Landscape Architecture Design Studio
• UPL343s: Landscape Working Design (1): Landscape Detailed Working Documents
• UPL351s: Housing Studies
• UPL411s: Mega Projects Urban Design Studio
• UPL441s: Landscape Working Design (2): Landscape Execution Documents Complexity
• UPL462s: Urban Ecology and Environmental Studies
• UPL481s: Urban Informatics
• UPL495s: Landscape Architecture Graduation Project (1)
• UPL496s: Landscape Architecture Graduation Project (2)
• CES115s: Structural Analysis for Architecture Engineering
• CES225s: Concrete & Steel Structures for Arch. Engineering
• CEP113s: Surveying
• CEI311s: Infrastructure Planning and Landscape Irrigation
• MEP241s: Technical Installations
• Landscape Architecture Elective A Course (1)
• Landscape Architecture Elective A Course (2)
• Landscape Architecture Elective B Course (3)
• Landscape Architecture Elective B Course (4)

Program Study Plan

The program study plan is divided into 10 semesters, with the following courses:

Semester 1

• PHM012: Mathematics (1)
• PHM021: Vibration and Waves
• PHM031: Statics
• MDP011s: Engineering Drawing
• PHM041: Engineering Chemistry
• CSE031s: Computing in Engineering

Semester 2

• PHM013: Mathematics (2)
• PHM022: Electricity and Magnetism
• PHM032: Dynamics
• CEP011s: Projection and Engineering Graphics
• MDP081s: Production Engineering
• ENG011s: Fundamentals of Engineering

Semester 3

• ARC111s: Principles of Architecture Design Studio
• ARC131s: History of Arts and Architecture (1): Ancient Civilizations
• ARC141s: Architectural Representation
• ARC151s: Building (1): Conventional Construction Systems
• CES115s: Structural Analysis for Architecture Engineering
• PHM111: Probability and Statistics
• ASU Elective B Course

Semester 4

• ARC112s: Creativity and Design Studio
• ARC132s: History of Arts and Architecture (2): History of Islamic and Western Architecture
• ARC142s: Digital Presentation of The Built Environment
• ARC152s: Building (2): Finishing Works
• CEP113s: Surveying
• ASU112s: Report Writing & Communication skills

Semester 5

• ARC254s: Building (3): Landscape Construction
• UPL211s: Context and Place Design Studio
• UPL212s: Principles of Urban Design and Landscape
• CES225s: Concrete & Steel Structures for Arch. Engineering
• MEP241s: Technical Installations
• CES151s: Structures and Properties of Construction Materials
• ASU Elective A Course

Semester 6

• ARC241s: Modeling of The Built Environment
• ARC351s: Working Design (1): Execution Drawings Coordination, Annotating, and Coding
• ARC261s: Control of Thermal Environment
• ARC262s: Principles of Sustainable Architecture
• UPL213s: Mixed-use Design Studio
• UPL221s: History and Theory of Urbanism

Semester 7

• ARC352s: Working Design (2): Blow-Ups Detailing, Items Specifications, and BOQs
• UPL311s: Urban and Landscape Design Studio
• UPL341s: Horticulture and Garden Design
• UPL351s: Housing Studies
• UPL481s: Urban Informatics
• CEI311s: Infrastructure Planning and Landscape Irrigation

Semester 8

• ARC364s: Outdoor Lighting and Effects
• ARC368s: Soundscape and Aural Architecture
• UPL342s: Arid Landscape Architecture Design Studio
• UPL343s: Landscape Working Design (1): Landscape Detailed Working Documents
• Landscape Architecture Elective A Course (1)
• Landscape Architecture Elective A Course (2)
• ASU113s: Professional Ethics and Legislations

Semester 9

• UPL411s: Mega Projects Urban Design Studio
• UPL441s: Landscape Working Design (2): Landscape Execution Documents Complexity
• UPL462s: Urban Ecology and Environmental Studies
• UPL495s: Landscape Architecture Graduation Project (1)
• ARC371s: Architecture Project Management
• UPL471s: Urban Economics
• ASU114s: Selected Topics in Contemporary Issues

Semester 10

• UPL496s: Landscape Architecture Graduation Project (2)
• Landscape Architecture Elective B Course (3)
• Landscape Architecture Elective B Course (4)
• ASU111s: Human Rights