Situated within TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, you learn to see the landscape as a contextual underlay for understanding, ordering and acting in spatial transformations. The track focuses on landscape architecture as a fully complementary design discipline next to architecture and urbanism. All aspects of the discipline are covered: from planning to design practice, from theoretical considerations to practical exercises, and from research to intuition.
The track offers a two-year educational trajectory of analysis, conceptualisation, elaboration, and verification.
Students become experts in spatial composition of natural and artificial materials in outdoor spaces, emphasising the continuity and transformation of landscape systems, the interchange between natural processes and ongoing human interventions over time.
Programme
The first year of the Landscape Architecture programme focuses on the development of core knowledge on landscape architecture theory, techniques and repertoire and the active practicing of design skills on various levels of complexity and scale. The second year is dedicated to interdisciplinary electives followed by the graduation project.
Year 1
The first three quarters of the programme are complementary and introduce you to the fundamental domains of Landscape Architecture.
In addition to developing your design skills, you acquire knowledge of plants and vegetation types, soils, hydrology, ecology, sociology, landscape history and theory of landscape architecture. Integrated in the landscape design projects several architectural aspects and different urban contexts are addressed. Field trips complement lecturing and studio work.
In the fourth quarter (Q4) you join one of the intradisciplinary courses in which you are challenged to work together with students from other tracks within the Master Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences on overarching themes.
Check the Study Guide for a full overview of the intradisciplinary electives available to Landscape Architecture track students.
Year 2
Interdisciplinary electives Q5
The fifth quarter (Q5) allows you to choose electives offered by or in collaboration with other TU Delft faculties, or with public or private partners. These interdisciplinary electives Q5 offer students the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience from collaborating in projects with other disciplines or challenges found outside the walls of our own faculty. More information electives Q5.
Graduation
The Landscape Architecture Graduation Studio (45 EC) is scheduled in Q6, Q7 and Q8. It is structured around a variety of so-called graduation labs that link to our research portfolio called Landscape Systems and Compositions. Students are invited to choose one of these labs. In Q6 you select a topic and site, develop a study plan and start a research proposal that eventually leads to your graduation thesis. In Q6 we will also organize a series of methodology workshops in which we provide the foundation for your research and design activities. In Q7 and Q8 the focus lies on landscape design and editing your graduation thesis.
An important objective during graduation is the development of a critical position in relation to the discipline, society and the built environment.
Additional information
For more information on all courses, please visit the study guide.
