Master in Landscape Architecture

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. Landscape architects are partly dependent on soil science, ecology, hydrology and geography for their design material. Moreover, they are explicitly aware of the importance of the time factor on the quality of the environment. They know how to create the right basic conditions to allow time – as expressed in growth, development, use and decline – to do its work in order to achieve a high-quality outdoor environment. Landscape architecture is a discipline with a broad orientation that targets the sustainable transformation of the environment in which we live our lives. That is one of the reasons why landscape architects have been given an increasingly important role in the process of environmental planning and the organisation of the public domain in recent years. The course in Landscape Architecture is aimed at the acquisition of knowledge, insight and skills that make it possible to come up with design solutions in order to reconcile new artefacts – water, infrastructure, buildings or vegetation – with the existing qualities and potential of the natural and historical environment.

Application and admission
Study Guide

Study load
240 EC

Study length
4 years, part-time

Language of instruction
Dutch

CROHO code
44337 (M Landscape Architecture)

Title
Master of Landscape Architecture