Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Summary

Learn the latest landscape design concepts to solve urban and rural problems, work on real world projects and connect with practitioners. You'll graduate as a professional landscape architect ready to make real change.

Build a firm foundation in all the aspects of modern-day landscape architecture. Then specialise in landscape ecology, resilient and sustainable community design, as well as design and planning of urban and rural landscapes.

You’ll expand your knowledge working on real projects and connect with seasoned practitioners. Plus if you achieve the required grades in your third and fourth courses, you graduate with Honours.

This degree is accredited by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA). Graduates are eligible to become registered professionals and are highly sought-after in public and private sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and further afield.

How you’ll grow

• By working alongside world-leading practitioners on a broad mix of design, ecology, field tours and real-world challenges.
• Enjoy studying in a dedicated on-campus environment that combines light-filled studios with areas to lay out equipment, display your designs and build models.
• Network and study with other focused professionals, and develop a strong professional vision and ethos.
• Graduate ready to stake out a future and make an immediate difference through your degree and knowledge.

Career opportunities

Lincoln’s Bachelor of Landscape Architecture has an enviable international reputation. As a graduate, you’ll be able to explore opportunities at home or abroad because of your strength in design, planning and your ability to apply the real-world experience gained during your study to a wide range of projects.

Practical work requirements

During your study, you’re expected to complete:

• No less than six weeks in an approved office-based professional practice
• No less than three weeks in an approved aspect of landscape implementation
• Three weeks applied practice in LASC393 – Practicum: applied landscape practice

For more information on the practical aspects of study, or request a copy of the Practical Work Handbook, contact the Practical Work Coordinator at practicalwork@lincoln.ac.nz or phone +64 3 423 0061.

This degree has already opened up heaps of opportunities for me because sustainable design is something that everybody is talking about and wanting to see in our city and rural environments.

Corey Annandale

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Graduate Attributes

Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.

Knowledge

• Explain how environmental, cultural and socio-economic systems and processes including landscape planning, conservation and management shape landscapes such as urban, rural, riparian and montane landscapes at various scales.
• Describe the landscape dimensions of sustainability, human health and well-being.
• Describe how different types and historical examples of designed landscape have been created, and of the cultural meanings they express.
• Describe their design process and evaluate frameworks for landscape assessment and design through an awareness of place.
• Discuss Māori and Indigenous concepts and applied approaches to design.
• Identify and describe a range of plant materials, their environmental requirements and tolerances, and common plant production techniques.
• Discuss theoretical, professional and ethical concepts, methods and policies underlying the practice of landscape architecture.

Skills

• Apply methods of inventory and analysis, design, assessment, and landscape planning.
• Express critical thinking through design.
• Locate, evaluate, synthesise and use information from a range of sources to enable evidence-based design.
• Apply a range of business and managerial skills required in landscape practice, including efficient and effective personal time management and project management skills.

Values

• Express familiarity with the diversity of the practice of landscape architecture including the need to commit to professional ethics, codes of conduct, protocols and procedures, in the context of the nature of professional behaviour.
• Be open and sensitive to people from a wide range of backgrounds and communities.
• Express a commitment to landscape sustainability.
• Recognise Māori cultural values and related design practice.