Landscape Architecture BA(Hons)

Why choose this course?

Landscape architecture focuses on the design and communication of proposals for open space – from city squares, streets and parks, to regeneration master-planning and strategies for conservation at the large scale. Graduates of this course have been offered outstanding opportunities at leading practices in central London, across the UK and in Europe.

The course is professionally accredited by the Landscape Institute (LI), which means that you can work towards a professional qualification and full chartered membership of the Institute after you have graduated.

What will you study?

Project modules in each year will give you the skills and techniques to generate and communicate a portfolio of creative landscape proposals, while context modules ensure you learn the relevant theory and technical knowledge. We aim to equip students with experience of a range of contemporary landscape projects to reflect the wide scope of practice, and the curriculum emphasises logical, iterative and sequential development of project work. Design, environment and people are at the core of all projects.

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Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Form: Design Studio
• Space: Design Studio
• Communicating Skills
• History and Cultural Studies

• History and Cultural Studies

  This module introduces the historical, theoretical and cultural context of your studies in the man-made environments. You will learn how to:

  • take an analytical approach to the history of architecture and design;
  • understand how ideas and intentions inform design; and
  • understand the historical and cultural factors that have shaped contemporary architecture.
  
   
• Sustainable Thinking

• Sustainable Thinking

  This course covers the principles of sustainability, including:

  • philosophical enquiries;
  • the generic principles of building type; and
  • the macro and the micro conditions that set up this mode of thinking.
  
   
• First Sights

Year 2

• Park: Design Studio
• Park Life: Technique and Theory
• Street: Design Studio
• Street Life: Technique and Theory
• Focus 1 (personal development studies)

Year 3

• Field: Design Studio
• Fielding: Technique and Theory
• City: Design Studio
• City Sights: Technique and Theory
• Focus 2 (personal development studies)