The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture is an intensive two-year studio-based program that develops professional and creative abilities in a context of contemporary theory and practice. 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. There is an opportunity for undertaking Honours. The program combines a global outlook with extensive use of case studies of Australian work. Teaching is by a combination of University staff and visiting practising professionals.

Students may choose to take a period of practical experience during the program. They may also take part of the program at an approved overseas university. The academic program culminates in a major design project which permits students to demonstrate their acquired knowledge in the design and description of a project of significant complexity and scale.

Honours 

Students may also apply for entry to the course Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture II that can be taken as an overload in the final year. The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture with Honours is awarded on the basis of performance in this course and other final year courses.

The program contains no course options, but allows students some choice in addressing aspects of landscape architectural practice in their work. Subject to satisfactory academic achievement, students may apply during the second year of the program to undertake additional study towards a Master of Landscape Architecture program.

Alternatively, some students may wish to undertake the combined Bachelor of Architecture / Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program. This double-degree is an intensive three-year studio-based program that develops professional and creative abilities in a context of contemporary theory and practice in architecture and landscape architecture.

The B.L.Arch. is recognised by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) as a program that satisfies the academic requirements for corporate membership to the AILA. A total of two years' practical experience after graduation and an examination by the AILA are also prerequisites for practice as a landscape architect. Career prospects are currently good in Australia and the South East Asian region, but architects, landscape architects and urban designers should be prepared to travel to develop their careers.

Knowledge

• Acquired knowledge and skills sufficient for exploration of creative process and ideas
• Acquired knowledge and skills sufficient for early stages of directed activity in an existing landscape architectural practice, including ability to design and document projects
• Developed intellectual and creative approaches and adaptability to form a basis 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: the practice of comprehending 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.
• Surveying: the principles of land surveying.
• Communication: the communication and documentation of designs for presentation to clients and other stakeholders and for construction,;the preparation of professional reports.
• Managing: the management and operation 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 recognition of situations where a landscape architect can contribute, the formulation of appropriate strategies, and appropriate pre-design, design, documentation, project management and post construction services; proposals in conformity with codes and other requirements; processes in developing designs, including the development of a brief, and the outline, assessment and detailed design of. The organisation, management and documentation associated with construction and the administration of contracts;
• The marketing of landscape architectural services.

School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Undergraduate Program Rules

• Architecture Program Information Leaflet
• School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
• Undergraduate Scholarships
• University Contact Centre enquiry form
• Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)