Landscape Architecture in the Bachelor of Environments
Landscape Architecture practice ranges across all scales of design, from largescale public projects such as the Olympic Parks in Sydney and Beijing, to suburban development, to smaller urban spaces and gardens.
Providing a unique bridge between the design professions and the environmental sciences, Landscape Architecture offers creative opportunities to engage in core ecological, cultural, and social issues faced today. There is currently a worldwide shortage of landscape architects.
Students of Landscape Architecture are attracted to its creativity and diversity, its challenges and demands. This major explores the practice, theory, history, and long-standing ecological sensibilities of the discipline.
Careers and Graduate Study Opportunities
By the end of the three-year Bachelor of Environments degree with a Landscape Architecture major, you will have developed a strong base of design knowledge and technical skills across the landscape architecture discipline. You will be prepared for the two-year Master of Landscape Architecture program to become an accredited landscape architect.
Master of Landscape Architecture
The Master of Landscape Architecture is a two-year professional degree that teaches design and practice, underpinned by strengths in theory and technology and a focus on sustainability. It provides graduates with:
- design knowledge that will contribute to the improvement of our built and natural environments
- the ability to use resources, materials and technologies to develop responsible and sustainable design solutions
- a foundation in landscape architectural history and theory, and their related technologies.
Master of Landscape Architecture - Career Outcomes
Landscape architects are in demand at all levels of government, in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, and in landscape architectural, planning, engineering and multidisciplinary consultancy firms. Graduates also find employment with groups such as conservation agencies and land development companies, while others run their own landscape architectural practices.
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Sample Course Plan – NB. Subjects DO NOT have to be taken in this order 1
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |||
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| Natural Environments 880-101 | Reshaping Environments 880-102 | Landscape Studio 1: Explorations 3 | Landscape Studio 2: Site Planning and Design 3 | Landscape Studio 3: Urban Open Space | Landscape Studio 4: Designed Ecologies (capstone) |
| Mapping Environments (Recommended) | Virtual Environments | Designing with Plants | Site Tectonics | Ecology of Urban Landscapes | Case Studies in Landscape Architecture |
| Designing Environments (recommended) | Urban Environments (recommended) | Environments Elective | Environments Elective | Environments Elective | History of Designed Landscapes 4 |
| Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 | Breadth 2 |
| Major subjects | 1 This example is provided as a guide only. Subject availability will vary from year to year and there is no guarantee that the listed subject will be available in future years. 2 Breadth examples: Subjects from another faculty, e.g. Music, Education, Law or Arts (Languages), or subjects from a contrasting stream within the Bachelor of Environments (see Breadth Study). 3 2nd Year Landscape Studios: You must complete Landscape Studio 1 + Landscape Studio 2 OR one Landscape Studio + one Architecture Design Studio or one Urban Design Studio. 4 History of Designed Landscapes can be taken in 2nd or 3rd Year. |
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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