Course summary
Curious about landscape, urbanism, and working with nature as a primary design tool? Our MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design Master's is the ideal step to furthering your postgraduate study and understanding how landscape and urbanism relate to architecture, nature, and the scientific and human dimensions of our built and unbuilt environments. Besides examining the theoretical and practical frameworks for engaging with landscapes at the territorial, urban, and architectural scales, you'll also be able to take part in current debates involving landscape, architecture, urban design, climate change, and sustainability. Learn how to preserve and/or transform landscapes based on their geographical, geological, and morphological components, and how to design proposals that interact with both natural and artificial environments to create ecosystems. In your design, you'll explore and use notions like sustainability, green infrastructure, renaturing cities, biodiversity, environmental design, and ecosystem services. With this Landscape and Urban Design Master's degree, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the tangible and intangible values of landscape, including its natural, historical, cultural, and social dimensions. You'll graduate with valuable insight into, and experience of, sustainable landscape architecture and urban design, enabling you to reshape societies for the better in your future career. This degree is an exit award—or 'pathway'—of our MA Architecture degree course. You must apply for that course and select certain modules to graduate with this exit award.
Modules
Core modules There are both core and optional modules in the full-time version of this pathway. Research Methods - 30 credits Thesis - 60 credits Optional modules Conservation and Practice - 30 credits Conservation: Theories - 30 credits Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences - 30 credits Landscape and Urbanism: Territories and Systems - 30 credits Landscape and Urbanism: Sites and Systems - 30 credits Spatial Practices: Situated Ecologies - 30 credits Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making - 30 credits Work-Based Learning: Opportunity - 30 credits
Entry requirements
To do this degree, you need to apply for the MA Architecture course. This is because it's a ‘pathway’ degree. You’ll study Architecture in depth and choose required Landscape and Urban Design modules. You’ll graduate with an MA Architecture: Landscape and Urban Design degree when you finish the course. These are the entry requirements for the MA Architecture course: September 2025 / January 2026 start UK qualifications A good honours degree in a relevant subject, such as Architecture Interior Architecture Landscape Architecture Urban Design Civil Engineering Building Surveying Geography Spatial Practices Fine Art Other design-related subject Please get in touch if you're not sure if your undergraduate subject applies to this degree. Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered, such as previous study, employment, voluntary work and training courses, including courses and qualifications you didn't complete. Learn more about our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). If you don't have relevant qualifications and/or experience, you'll need to provide a portfolio to support your application.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 5.5. | |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 91 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. | |
| PTE Academic | An overall score of 65 with a minimum of 59 in each skill. | |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 162. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Advanced (CPE) (taken after January 2015). An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 162. |
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
**Postgraduate fees for 2026 entry will be available shortly.**
For further fee information please see the corresponding University of Portsmouth course page or visit https://www.port.ac.uk/study/masters-and-postgraduate-taught/fees-and-funding
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP