Architecture- Landscape and Urban Design

This Architecture- Landscape and Urban Design Master's degree at University of Portsmouth is the ideal step to furthering your postgraduate study and understanding how landscape and urbanism relate to architecture, nature, and the scientific and human dimensions of our built and unbuilt environments.

Besides examining the theoretical and practical frameworks for engaging with landscapes at the territorial, urban, and architectural scales, you'll also be able to take part in current debates involving landscape, architecture, urban design, climate change, and sustainability.

Learn how to preserve and/or transform landscapes based on their geographical, geological, and morphological components, and how to design proposals that interact with both natural and artificial environments to create ecosystems. In your design, you'll explore and use notions like sustainability, green infrastructure, renaturing cities, biodiversity, environmental design, and ecosystem services.

With this Architecture- Landscape and Urban Design Master's degree provided by University of Portsmouth , you’ll gain a deep understanding of the tangible and intangible values of landscape, including its natural, historical, cultural, and social dimensions. You'll graduate with valuable insight into, and experience of, sustainable landscape architecture and urban design, enabling you to reshape societies for the better in your future career.

Career development

When you graduate with a Landscape and Urban Design Master’s degree, you can choose a career in organisations, including design practices, architectural firms, and multi-sector institutions.

The design and cultural skills, professional competencies, and expansive learning environment from this course will lead you to landscape and urban design jobs in:

• Sustainable design
• Consultancy
• Non-government organisations (NGOs)
• Environmental organisations
• Regeneration projects
• Heritage and Landscape Management bodies (such as National Trust and Historic England)

Some landscape and urban designers freelance and open up their own practices, consultancies, or companies. The careers and employment support you’ll receive during your studies can prepare you for starting your own business should you choose that career path.

Courses include

• Integration of Transdisciplinary Experiences

• Landscape and Urbanism: Territories and Systems

• Landscape and Urbanism: Sites and Systems

• Spatial Practices: Situated Ecologies

• Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making

• Work-based Learning Opportunity