The Master of Landscape Architecture is an intensive five-semester length studio-based program that develops professional and creative abilities in the context of contemporary theory and practice of landscape architecture.

Projects are used as the basis for learning, discussion and review. Some projects lead students through technical, administrative, planning or other specific aspects of practice, while others promote innovative approaches to design with a more open agenda. The programs combine a global outlook with extensive use of case studies of Australian work. Teaching is by a combination of University staff and visiting practising professionals.

Knowledge

• Advanced acquired knowledge and skills for exploration of creative process and ideas
• Advanced acquired knowledge and skills sufficient for various stages of activities in a landscape architectural practice
• Highly developed intellectual and creative approaches, and adaptability for continued learning and development throughout professional life.

Intellectual and Social Capabilities

• Designing:
  The practice of landscape architectural design, emphasising the pervasion of design from planning to detailing and the interrelationship of aesthetic, economic, environmental, legal, societal and individual reactions, and technical factors, and the nature of design as a group activity.
• Site Planning:
  Understanding and taking advantage of variables relevant to site planning including flora, fauna, soils, water systems, energy systems, building materials, human activities and desires, heritage conservation and the poetics of space, site and structure assembly and arrangement.
• The principles of land surveying.
• Communication:
  The communication and documentation of designs as a part of the individual and group processes and for clients, construction, public presentation and statutory authorities.
• The preparation of professional reports.
• Managing:
  The management and operation of a landscape architectural practice and the activities of a landscape architectural practice.

Attitudes and Values

The profession of landscape architecture:

• Ethics:
  Environmental sustainability; cultural, social, economic and legal responsibilities of the profession of landscape architecture.
• Landscape architectural services:
  The understanding of situations where a landscape architect can contribute, the formulation of appropriate strategies, and appropriate pre-design, design, project management and post construction services;
  Processes in developing designs, including the development of a brief, and the outline, assessment, detailed design and costing of proposals in conformity with codes and other requirements.
  The organisation, management and documentation associated with construction and the administration of contracts; the marketing of landscape architectural services.
• The technology of landscape architecture:
  Site planning, construction, vegetation and habitat provision, water systems and hydrology, structures and services as they relate to new buildings, alterations, and site planning and design interventions.
• The landscape architect in relation to other professions, organisations and the building industry:
  The relationship of landscape architects to builders, structural and building services engineers, architects, interior designers, urban designers, planners, and others included in the creation of the built environment and human-dominated and shaped landscapes. The relationship of the profession of landscape architecture to statutory authorities and to the design industry.
• Landscape Architecture and Architecture:
  The demonstration of the synergies between landscape architecture and architecture, urban design and master planning.

The M.L.Arch. has approval from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects as a program that satisfies the academic requirements for corporate membership to the AILA.

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