MA Architecture du Paysage

This course is designed to increase the student's professional skills in the theoretical and practical aspects of landscape architecture so providing access to a range of employment opportunities including chartership of the Landscape Institute. Subjects are explored through contemporary urban and rural landscape design with a focus on ecological approaches.

MA Postgraduate design courses propose a new emphasis and direction for the Master's degrees based on an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge and understanding. The MA Landscape Architecture follows a sequence of related theory and design projects leading to a grounded and innovative way to comprehend and find meaning in the places we live and work. Students develop advanced theoretical and applied constructs in landscape architecture, garden and environmental design.

As a studio-based design course, Landscape Architecture and Garden Design are taught through core seminars and lectures in landscape theory, landscape ecology, history and advanced design studio. The course promotes thinking in terms of place and identity, physical and phenomenal relationships at scales from the local to the regional. social and ecological systems and informs the design process in terms of function, context, meaning and form. The structure and curriculum benefit from a Professional Advisory Board from leading practitioners and is accredited by the Landscape Institute.

Established in 1893, Writtle University College has been producing leaders in the land-based industries and organizations for more than 120 years. Writtle is one of the oldest specialist institutions in the UK and offers a range of land-based, design, and sports courses at various levels of academic study, including Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Further Education, Short Courses, and Apprenticeships.

We also provide students with the option of being able to study certain courses on a part-time basis. We value students as individuals here at Writtle. We recognize that every one of our students will have different requirements and career ambitions; this is why we ensure they are given the attention needed to achieve their goals.