Landscape Urbanism

Entry requirements

LANDSCAPE URBANISM MSC – Bachelor’s degree (minimum second class honours) in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, geography, engineering or a related discipline from a United Kingdom university or a degree of equivalent standard from a recognised university or higher education institution from outside the UK.

LANDSCAPE URBANISM MARCH – Five-year professional architectural degree (BArch/Diploma equivalent) in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, urban planning, geography, engineering or other relevant discipline from a United Kingdom university or a BArch degree plus diploma of equivalent professional standard from a recognised university or higher education institution from outside the UK.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The Landscape Urbanism (LU) programme explores design within and beyond normative aesthetic and performative proposals, as we confront the processes, landscapes and territories of planetary urbanisation and the environmental, racial, socioeconomic and health-related crises they have triggered. Contemporary planetary urbanisation is structured by policies that respond to the dominant capitalist system governing our societies, economies and ecologies. Beyond the design of single buildings, LU develops spatial policies that directly impact urban and rural landscapes: design strategies and models, innovative regulatory plans and visual decision-making tools that integrate design within world-ecology frameworks. To do so, we have built collaboration agreements with public bodies in UK, think tank organisations, design practices and farms. The programme methodology weaves critical thinking with cartographic technologies (remote sensing, GIS, coding, simulations, interactive mapping), tools (drones, microscopes) and visualisation engines (Blender, Lumion). Our graduates are sought after by both large multidisciplinary firms like ARUP and independent research offices as well as public organisations and policy think tanks.

The programme investigates how progressive policies can be implemented to target the ecological emergency within the Capitalocene. To do so, LU works with projects and movements such as the People’s Green New Deal, the Degrowth Scholarship, and Decolonisation and Reparations, as well as with progressive economic think tanks such as Common Wealth, Abundance, the John Muir Trust, Land Workers Alliance, Shared Assets and Real Trust Farming. Our collaborations aid the development of design research projects.

Information for international students

Taught Postgraduate students may apply for a Bursary to support the duration of their studies in their programme.

Further infomration can be found here.

Fees and funding

The MSc programme in Landscape Urbanism is a 16-month programme of full-time study, and the tuition fee is £30,840.

The MArch in Landscape Urbanism is a 16-month programme of full-time study. The tuition fee for the programme is £42,816, which is paid in the first year of study.