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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Greenwich (Greenwich Campus)
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Our accredited landscape architecture degree provides the professional skills to design the future spaces around us. Improve and refine our daily lives via the creation of sustainable public places.Teaching takes place in our state-of-the-art Stockwell Street Building, which is home to the School of Design. Here you will be working in our extensive design studios whilst also interacting with other design and creative disciplines. This amazing building contains a large interior living wall and many green roofs, which are used for teaching and research projects.You'll study a range of approaches to landscape design, from public spaces and waterfronts to town planning, urban development and regional strategies. As well as design studio work, you'll learn about the history and theory of landscapes, ecology, conservation, and digital communication. Our Landscape Architecture programmes encourage innovation and experimentation alongside practical approaches, allowing students the freedom to develop cutting-edge and workable design solutions to some of today’s environmental and social challenges. Your course portfolio will support employment opportunities in leading landscape architecture practices in the UK and around the world.Our landscape architecture degree is the only course of its kind in London and is accredited by the Landscape Institute. Completion enables our students to start on their ‘Pathway to Chartership’ as Associate members of the Landscape Institute.
The course examines the cultural contexts of the built environment and investigates the relationships between design and society. It introduces the premise that architectural ideas are culturally constructed and allied to particular value systems and prevailing ideologies. It provides a background for current issues concerning quality in the built environment. The course is delivered through a series of weekly lectures, workshops and seminars and includes student site visits. It is structured around the following aspects of the research process: ways of observing the built/designed environment, noting the aspects that can only be experienced first hand and interpreting what is seen; conducting research and learning where to find information, organise it and distinguish between what is relevant and what not; presenting the acquired information and research conclusions in keeping with the academic standards, in writing and visually.
The course presents a global history of architecture and landscape in terms of a range of techniques for organising and ordering space, buildings and landscapes. It offers a way of looking at built environments and designed landscapes and identifying key paradigms in them. It stresses the social and technological contexts that define architecture and the designed landscape.
This course is This module aims to introduce the student to the environmental and physical sciences that influence the design of architecture and landscape. On successful completion of this course a student will be able to: Have an overview of how climate on a global scale can influence local environments and in turn influence architecture and landscape design; Gather climatic and environmental data of their site; Have an overview of conservation in relations to energy consumption, solar gain, ventilation, daylight, water use and waste; Have an overview of soil makeup and its relationship to architecture and landscape; Have an overview of the basic physics of structures and construction; Have an overview of materials and their qualities.
The aim of the course is introduce and experiment with a range of techniques, for surveying, recording, drawing and modelling in order to develop and represent landscape projects. On successful completion of this course a student will be able to: To collect site data through contrasting site survey methods from landscape architecture, ecology and art practice; To develop drawing and modelling techniques to communicate research and proposal stages of landscape architecture projects; To research and synthesise within their design projects ideas from contemporary landscape architecture and art precedent; To research different contemporary representation techniques, to understand how they are composed and constructed, and how they could be applied in landscape architecture projects; To apply digital skills in the development and representation of design projects.
The aim of the course is This module aims to introduce approaches to investigate landscape sites and developing proposals, where students will undertake a series of investigations of physical and cultural contexts, programme, scale and material which will lead to the collection of data through observations, speculations, design strategies and propositions.
The aim of the course is This module aims to introduce the core technical considerations for Landscape Architecture practice, including materials, ecologies and engineering, in the context of the student design projects. These three themes are the focus of technology within the BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture programme. An emphasis on materials and general ecological relations and processes is given to this technical course. Students are then expected to test and apply this knowledge and skills in their design studio project.
Landscape architecture is an art of milieu involving shifting, evolving contexts that are ecological, social, cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic. Our lived landscapes are buildings that reflect our immediate world views and our aspirations as well as the world views and aspirations of the dominant classes. To be effective landscape architects we must be aware of all of these contexts through which we navigate in our work. This course will explore a great variety of ways of thinking about landscape This module aims to provide a foundation for further research and for the critical modes of operation necessary for an exemplary career in landscape architecture.
The course will allow you to explore attitudes to modernism in architecture and to develop an understanding of historical, social and critical themes in architecture, urbanism and landscape, with particular reference to the period 1750 onwards. You will also cultivate skills in analytical and critical thinking and develop your skills in critical writing and presentation.
The practice of architecture and landscape architecture has changed dramatically over the last half century. Our students will practice in a world where old certainties no longer apply. The aim of this course is This module aims to introduce students of architecture and landscape architecture to the practices, procedures, pressures and processes of professional architecture and landscape design consultants in the 21st century. The course will do this through lectures, seminars and by showing students how design projects are briefed, designed, procured and delivered.
The aim of the course is to critically research, map and analyse the contrasting ecologies of urban landscapes with the aim of developing urban strategies and urban landscape projects. On successful completion of this course a student will be able to: Develop critical approaches to investigating medium and large landscape sites with complex ecological relationships; Produce detailed investigations of complex urban ecological contexts, programme, scale and material; Formulate urban strategies that respond to the site contexts that include social, environmental, material and cultural issues; Conceive of innovative urban landscape design projects, which begin with an investigation of sites and the definition of an individual brief with this detailed knowledge; Incorporate into projects understandings of theoretical and professional contexts; Understand how to read, interpret and develop topographic modelling and mapping using digital techniques.
The aim of the course is to develop site-based research through analytical techniques to test landscape architecture ideas and processes through sophisticated drawings and models. Students will experiment with programme, function and urban narratives through the development of landscape projects. They will integrate ecological methods into the research of the site while resolving the design project through high-quality digital drawings communicating the landscape architecture proposals.
The aim of the course is to develop the core technical and professional considerations for Landscape Architecture practice, including materials, ecologies and engineering, in the context of the student design projects. An emphasis on more complex ecological relations, from the scale of habitats to the management of territorial ecosystems is given to this technical course. Students are then expected to test and apply this knowledge and skills in their design studio project.
The aim of the course is to iteratively advance a landscape proposal through critical reflection, research and development of sophisticated drawings, models and prototypes. Students will prepare and edit a project portfolio which communicates the project to focused audiences.
The aim of the course is to investigate a landscape site, from the material to the territory, as the basis for exploring critical spatial, social and environmental issues. Project will carry out investigations of a broad range of contemporary issues designed to inform the landscape proposals.
The aim of the course is to advance the technical and professional considerations for Landscape Architecture practice, including materials, ecologies and engineering, in the context of the student design projects. An emphasis on working from the infrastructural scale to the detail scale, including transportation systems, green and other infrastructures, planning and construction, will be the focus on this course.
The aim of the Landscape Dissertation is This module aims to provide an opportunity to engage with theories and case studies through primary and secondary research of written texts, field surveys and other research techniques. The course requires the students to make a detailed evaluation of a case study, theory or topic which engages with theoretical, historical, contextual, technological, cultural and social aspects of landscape. The dissertation should enable students to work with and between complex written texts and designed spatial forms. The preparation of a dissertation enables students to develop their research skills and approach, critical and reflective writing skills, planning and time management and creative communication and presentation skills.
112 Grades/points required
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Accommodation- Standard (shared bathroom) 39 weeks - 6,805.50 (Total charge)
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