A minimum of a second-class UK degree in landscape architecture or an accredited overseas qualification in Landscape Architecture of an equivalent standard. On occasion, graduates from other degrees who can demonstrate comparable abilities will also be considered. Applicants must have also completed their previous degree and be undertaking a year in a professional practice placement or internship. A design/creative portfolio is also expected. Applicants will be asked to provide a link to a portfolio of their design work once their completed application has been received, and should not send or upload work until it has been requested.
Landscape Architecture MA is an accredited master’s course committed to climate-focused landscape design and environmental stewardship. It equips you with the technical skills and knowledge needed to respond innovatively to ecological, urban and social challenges through your work with natural and built environments. The course will enable you to progress towards a career as a Chartered Landscape Architect.
You will be prepared to address sustainability and respond to current challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change and ecological crises.
Design-led teaching is central to the course, and Design Studios form a core component. This structure gives you the opportunity to develop your own approach to landscape architecture. Within the Studios, tutors present unique, rigorous, challenging, and even radical intellectual positions, providing a strong identity for students working individually and in groups, with field and site study trips giving you the opportunity to explore real-world environments.
On this course, you will gain a highly specialist skill set and the ability to design using a range of techniques and research methods. Developing an in-depth knowledge of the discipline of landscape architecture, you hone your skills in creative problem solving, making decisions and propositions in complex, challenging, ambiguous and open-ended situations.
You will refine your communication skills through seminar presentations, written work, design reviews and exhibitions, while learning to advocate for your ideas and respond to people from a wide range of backgrounds within a professional context.
The Bartlett School of Architecture is recognised as one of the world’s leading schools of architecture and graduates from our master’s courses are highly sought after. Many graduates continue into professional practice with landscape architecture firms in the UK or their home country. A degree in Landscape Architecture can also lead to employment in related fields such as environmental design, landscape management and built environment policy-making as well as other design-related fields. Graduates have gone on to work with companies including Townsend Landscape Architects, Vogt Landscape Limited, and China Architecture Design and Research Group*.
Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts, alumni testimonials, LinkedIn profiles