Master in Landscape Architecture - LI accredited Kingston University

Why choose this course?

This course comprises a conversion year followed by a master's year and includes study visits and opportunities to collaborate on live projects with client and community engagement and working with experienced practitioners on site.

Design is at the heart of this course, with projects reflecting future opportunities for a landscape architect and forming part of your personal portfolio.

Live design projects will be reviewed by clients and may be the subject of community consultation. All design reviews are performed with the participation of leading landscape architects among the critics.

Reasons to choose Kingston University

• The course can form the route to the professional Pathway to Chartership, an online tool measured against the LI Chartership syllabus.
• The University has established local, European and international networks and the location offers opportunities for contemporary design projects.
• You will work closely with architecture students in an art school environment using purpose-designed architecture studios, designed by Stirling Prize-winning architects Haworth Tompkins.

Accreditation

The Landscape Institute

Our course is accredited by the Landscape Institute (LI). Accreditation requires education providers to meet important criteria which ensure high standards are maintained, meaning you can be sure your course meets the standards needed for you to enter the landscape profession.

What you will study

All design projects are developed as part of a personal portfolio that can be immediately used to target employment. Projects reflect critical challenges and opportunities of contemporary landscape practice including green and blue infrastructures, resilient and adaptive strategies, detailed design of places for people, planting, biodiversity, transformation and change through time. Workshops include model making (in the Faculty's 3D workshop), mapping, drawing, digital media, materials and construction.

Our London location established local, European and international networks, and Landscape Interface Studio provide the focus for contemporary landscape design projects that address immediate and long-term landscape solutions for cities and their regions.

Modules

The course begins with a series of intensive workshops with expert practitioners for rapid assimilation and application of key landscape architecture skills, techniques and knowledge.

The course includes study visits and opportunities to collaborate on live projects with clients and community engagement.

Summer work experience and a critical case study engage students with an immediate context of practice and the opportunity for dialogue with practitioners in relation to projects on-site.

Core modules

• Landscape Architecture: Primer
• Landscape Architecture: Portfolio
• Landscape Architecture Professional Practice: Design & Making
• Landscape Architecture: Reading, Research and Narrative
• Landscape Architecture: Thesis Project

Please note

Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.

After you graduate

Examples of recent graduate destinations for this and similar courses include:

• senior landscape architect ARUP Environmental
• landscape architect Churchman Landscape Architects London
• landscape architect Gustafson Porter London and Seattle
• landscape architect Grant Associates Bath
• associate director landscape architect AECOM
• landscape architect HTA Design London
• director Spacehub London