Landscape Architecture Course and Subjects

The International Federation of Landscape Architects Charter for Landscape Architectural Education explains the Landscape Architectural Education Requirement:

Subjects in Landscape Architectural Education

Landscape architectural education involves the acquisition of knowledge within the following broad areas:

1. History of cultural form and an understanding of design as a social art

2. Cultural and natural systems

3. Plant material and horticultural applications

4. Site engineering including materials, methods, technologies, construction documentation and administration, and applications

5. Theory and methodologies in design and planning

6. Landscape design, management, planning and science at all scales and applications

7. Information technology and computer applications

8. Public policy and regulation

9. Communications and public facilitation

10. Ethics and values related to the profession

Besides, the balanced attainment of knowledge and skills outlined above requires a long period of maturation; the period of studies in landscape architecture should always be not less than (4)four years of full-time (undergraduate) studies in a university or an equivalent institution, plus (2)two years experience in a landscape architectural practice.

First professional degrees in landscape architecture may be offered at the undergraduate or the graduate levels. Entrance into graduate programmes will require an undergraduate university degree in landscape architecture, architecture or other fields accepted by the institution. A graduate degree will normally require a minimum of (2)two years of full time study. Degrees in landscape architecture may also be offered at the PhD level.

Issues related to landscape architecture and the environment will be introduced as part of a general education, because an early awareness of environmental design is important to future landscape architects.

Landscape architectural students need to be critically aware of the political and financial motivations behind clients' needs and regulations in order to foster an ethical framework for decision making within the built environment.

Educational programs will also introduce landscape architectural design which considers the cost of future maintenance, life-cycle costing and project sustainability.

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