Landscape Architecture, MA

University of Greenwich

Advanced Landscape Design is a speculative and experimental design project that interrogates multi-scalar site-specific conditions of landscape. Students develop critical and ambitious projects in a studio environment exploring the processes of landscape as the foundation for landscape architectural practice. The focus of Advanced Landscape Design is developed in consultation with the design tutors and the course coordinator. Students are required to develop exceptional, rigorous and robust project prototypes informed by technological, environmental, theoretical and professional contexts. Students will present their ideas through a design portfolio that may include drawings, illustrations, models, installations, films, animations, interactive media, performance and written text.

Design Research Methodologies explores the way in which we engage with the city and landscape as both designers and researchers. It interrogates how they are read, understood and engaged with creatively. Through an exploration of trans-disciplinary methods this course encourages students to develop their own methods of working with cities, landscape and territories and to explore their positionality in the process.

Landscape Representation is a module that introduces advanced and professional techniques to develop, analyse and represent landscape. It is taught within context of the professional and theoretical techniques that are significant to landscape architecture and working with new technologies. Techniques of drawing, illustration, model making, moving image and interactive media are fundamental to developing design proposals, and these techniques are inextricably linked to how the projects are represented; a combination of these techniques are introduced in this course to encourage cross-media experimentation, and to support the design studio projects.

Landscape and Urbanism Theory explores the critical and theoretical discourses from landscape, architecture and urbanism that engage with the design, planning and production of cities. The course has an emphasis on landscape architecture and landscape urbanism theory, while aiming to open up interdisciplinary dialogues with other social, ecological and spatial concepts.

The Masters Project is an individually developed design research project that is specifically informed by ideas, theories and techniques developed in all other masters courses undertaken by the student. The Masters Project is the culmination of the student?s achievement and results in an ambitious and critically challenging project that reflects a speculative and experimental approach to the research and design of cities, landscapes and territories.

The Professional and Technical Practice module provides a rigorous foundation in professional landscape architecture practice for the post-graduate programmes accredited by the Landscape Institute. It explores established, historical and future approaches to material trends, emerging technologies, technical detail, professional regulation and project precedent. This course prepares students for realising exceptional landscape architecture projects, contributing to leading professional practices and establishing their own distinct design practice.