Landscape Architecture

Harmonisation Master's programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

The Master's Programme in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences (AUBS) will be renewed in the academic year 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. The aim of this renewal is to make the various master tracks more similar in composition and structure, resulting in more elective space and a graduation project that takes three quarters for all students.

• Do you start your first year of this master track Landscape Architecture in academic year 2024-2025?
  Please check the updated programme here.

• Are you currently studying in your first or second year of this master track?
  In principle, this harmonisation does not affect you. You finish your master track following the current track programme which you can find below on this page.
  
  In which situations does the harmonisation affect you?
  
  You do not take all courses of the second semester (MSc2) this academic year 
  If so, you will complete the second semester next academic year 2024-2025 in the new structure, with new or replacement courses. Please check the study guide for more information.
  
  You plan to interrupt your studies for (more than) a year.
  If so, it is best to do this after completing the entire first year. You will then continue your studies in September 2025 in the new structure of the second year, with an inter- or transdisciplinary Q5 elective (15 EC) and graduation in three quarters. More information on the Q5 electives and the graduation project will be available in april 2025.

Track programme Landschape Architecture 2023-2024

The master track Landscape Architecture provides a two-year programme. The programme’s first year 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 the completion of the graduation project.

The programme is visualised in the scheme below, courses highlighted in yellow indicate that students need to make a choice.

The first three quarters (Q1, Q2 and Q3) of the programme are compulsory and introduce you to the fundamental domains and approaches in 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 of the first year, students are free to choose electives offered by Landscape Architecture or one of the other Master AUBS tracks, or by another university master's programme, as long as the 15 EC of electives are obtained while enrolled as a master track Landscape Architecture student at TU Delft.

See the study guide for an overview of optional courses offered by the Landscape Architecture track (from academic year 2024-2025 these are called (intra)disciplinary electives). These electives are taught by Landscape Architecture staff, or in collaboration with staff from other Master AUBS tracks.

Registration of electives

To include electives offered by our faculty or other TU Delft programmes in your Study Progress Overview in Osiris, you have to submit the Master Electives list form. You can do this in advance, if you want to be sure that your courses will be accepted, or after completion.

If no request is submitted, the results will be registered as “other” in Osiris. This means that they will not be part of your required study programme and will not be listed on your diploma supplement.

For elective courses (to be) completed at other universities you must use the Certificate of incorporation to submit your request for approval by the Board of Examiners to include them in your study programme. 
 

The second year is dedicated to the preparation, elaboration and finalisation of an individual graduation project. The core of the graduation year (MSc3/4) is the Flowscapes Graduation Studio (AR3LA031; 20 EC + AR4LA010; 30 EC) supported by two related courses: Research Methodology in Landscape Architecture (AR3LA020; 5 EC), and Analysis and Visualisation (AR3LA011; 5 EC).

The Flowscapes Graduation Studio relates to the projects and activities within our research portfolio Landscape Systems and Compositions. A variety of so-called ‘graduation labs’ enable students - working in small groups - to contribute to a specific research theme or topic. In the first semester of the second year (MSc 3), students develop a study plan and a research proposal including a methodology for the graduation thesis. In the second semester (MSc 4), the project becomes a fulltime effort. Students receive periodical feedback from the first (the lab coordinator) and second mentor (from an adjacent section or department).

More detailed information about the graduation studio Flowscapes graduation can be found on the TU Delft website. Practical information about graduation in general can be found here and in the Graduation Manual.