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Master in Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture is sometimes described as ‘drawing in the topography’, but the profession encompasses much more. During the Master’s programme at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, you will acquire the knowledge, insight and skills that make it possible to solve spatial problems through design and to shed light on new topographical situations. This will take place at different scale levels, from garden to region.

You will not only learn to reconcile new elements such as water, infrastructure, buildings or greenery with the existing qualities and possibilities of the natural and historical environment, but also how to set a process in motion which an increasing amount of parties will latch on to. Research is an important part of the work, as genuine understanding and innovation can arise from this. That also means gaining understanding of other factors than the spatial one: the users, the creators and the managers. Above all, the landscape architect is explicitly aware of the influence that the time factor has on the quality of the environment, and can let this do its work. By introducing the right basic conditions, a high-quality outdoor environment is created.

Programme details
Study load240 EC (120 study, 120 practice)
Study length4 years, part-time
Language of instructionEnglish
CROHO-code44337 (M Landscape Architecture)
TitleMaster of Science (MSc)
HeadJoost Emmerik

Course overview Landscape Architecture 22-23

Career perspectives

After the Master’s programme in Landscape Architecture, you will have access to a broad and well-grounded range of design and research tools and you will be able to operate as a landscape architect both nationally and internationally. Moreover, you will be able to effectively collaborate with other disciplines in the design, planning and implementation process as an independent designer within a bureau, or you can begin your own bureau. 

Sustainable transformation of the daily living environment
Landscape Architecture is a discipline with a broad orientation, focused on sustainable transformation of the daily living environment. In part because of this, the landscape architect has been given an increasingly important role within the process of spatial planning and the layout of public space in recent years. As a design-based discipline, landscape architecture is strongly related to architecture, urban planning, agricultural engineering and civil engineering.

EMiLA: European Master in Landscape Architecture

EMiLA (European Master in Landscape Architecture) offers landscape architecture students the opportunity to learn about the profession in the European context and to gain teaching experience abroad. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the major European themes for landscape architecture and learn about the different approaches to the subject. Students learn how political differences within Europe affect the landscape and gain insight into cross-border landscape cooperation.

If you choose the EMiLA programme as a Landscape Architecture student, you will not attend classes at the Academy of Architecture in your second year of study, but two semesters at two schools of your choice instead. In addition to the programme at these participating institutes, you will follow a Summer School programme and an e-learning programme.

EMILA (European master in Landscape Architecture) is a mutual exchange programme for landscape architecture students from five landscape architecture schools in Europe. The five schools are: École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage (Versailles), Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft, Leibniz Universität (Hannover), Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona) and the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. 

 

Each school has determined its own admission requirements appropriate to the study programme. With regard to students of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, they may participate after successfully completing the first year of the Master in Landscape Architecture.

If you choose the EMiLA programme as a Landscape Architecture student, you will not attend classes at the Academy of Architecture in your second year of study, but two semesters at two schools of your choice instead.

You enter the current programme of the schools, and take part in the annual Summer School, which is organised each year by one of the participating schools and in which non-EMILA students can also participate. In addition, you follow an e-learning module, to be completed individually, on the website of EMILA. In this module, an exchange of knowledge and information takes place between all EMILA students under the supervision of the lecturer.

For more information, have a look at the EMiLA website!

Landscape Architecture at our Academy

The Landscape Architecture degree from the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture gives graduates the right to independent professional practice as a Landscape Architect and meets the admission requirements of the various registers that are formulated in the Dutch Academic Titles (Architects) Act. The graduate has direct access to the Dutch Register of Architects. The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture stimulates its students to get the maximum out of their talents. This results in an exceptionally high level and the work of students from the Academy is regularly awarded the Archiprix or other prizes.

Interdisciplinary and international
Architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are independent disciplines, but are inextricably linked with each other at the same time. The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture is the only Dutch design study programme that offers these three spatial disciplines in combination. By focusing on the essence and skills of your profession and, at the same time, partly working in interdisciplinary groups, you will be prepared for an integrated professional practice in the current field of work, where there is an increasing demand for your specific design skills within blurring boundaries. Working within an international context is also becoming increasingly important. The Academy also maintains an active network of foreign study programmes, through which students and lecturers are exchanged on a small scale, and is a member of the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE).

Inspiring environment  
The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture is a small-scale study programme in the centre of the city. All the elements of the urban landscape that are studied and taught here can be recognised in the context that surrounds us. In this way, the city and the surrounding landscape become your laboratory, as a social structure, historical artwork and enduring design assignment. At the same time, the work of the students is also valuable to the environment itself. Through the designs that the Academy places on the agenda and the designs that the students make, we create a parallel reality time and time again, which can hold its own in terms of power of expression.

Image in header: Stadswildernis by alumnus Mark Vergeer.

 

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