Course summary

The Master’s in Landscape Architecture (MLA) programme is a two-year, full-time, professionally accredited landscape architecture masters programme. We were awarded the Best International School of Landscape Architecture prize in 2018 and continue to deliver on this legacy by constantly re-examining our teaching and research practices to respond to our current context and to student feedback. This programme is for creative students with a strong interest in landscapes and an acute socioenvironmental awareness, with or without a background in landscape architecture. Why landscape architecture? Landscapes are vibrant, complex entities which are always changing. They sustain us. They are powerful sensory spaces we inhabit or simply traverse. They are also the sites of some of the most pressing challenges of our times. Landscape architects plan and design landscapes. They work across urban and rural environments, often in exciting multi-disciplinary teams. Landscape architecture is deployed on spatial scales ranging from the garden to the region, and timescales ranging from seasons to centuries. Being a landscape architect gives you the tools to make sense of complex socioecological contexts, as well as the skills and agency to contribute to a more sustainable and just future for all. Why choose our programme? The question of how to design with landscapes and their multispecies communities in a climate and biodiversity crisis underpins our programme. We are in an art college with a distinctive design culture and exceptional workshop facilities. We are therefore uniquely placed to support you in developing your own making-thinking practice which will enable you to critically understand and apply environmental theory to practical contexts. Taught by dedicated academics and practitioners, you will actively engage with urgent socioecological questions through site-specific and design-led learning. You will explore how to formulate meaningful design responses in our time of crises. The programme aims to empower you to imagine and advocate for the change you want to see, by supporting you in developing your own socially and environmentally aware design practice. If you are curious, creative and motivated to grow your landscape architectural voice, we would love to have you on our programme.