The architect is a spatial artist who is able to elevate assignments above the pragmatic limiting conditions to produce buildings that have significance in how they are experienced and seen. When an architect designs a building, he finds himself in a field of tension between specific limiting conditions and his own artistic interpretation of the commission. He is both an engineer and a conceptual thinker.
The landscape architect designs to solve spatial problems and visualises new topographical situations. The role of the landscape architect can be described as sketching in the topography. This takes place at different scale levels, from garden to region. As a design discipline, landscape architecture is closely related to architecture, urbanism, environmental engineering and civil engineering.
Urbanism is a discipline with a strong public objective. The discipline has developed from civil engineering and architecture to become one which plays a crucial role in environmental planning. There are points of close contact with such disciplines as economics, social sciences, traffic studies and environmental studies, as well as with the other design disciplines.
The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture offers two separate preparatory courses:preparatory course Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (starting in January)preparatory course Architecture (starting in September)
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