MLA Landscape Architecture at Kingston University

The Landscape Architecture MLA course from Kingston University is accredited by the Landscape Institute (LI). As such, it can form part of your Professional Pathway to Chartership, a development programme that provides the knowledge required for a chartered practice.

Faculty: Kingston School of Art  |  Duration: 2 years full time / 4 years part time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

All design projects are developed as part of a personal portfolio that can be immediately used to target employment. Projects reflect critical challenges and opportunities of contemporary landscape practice including green and blue infrastructures, resilient and adaptive strategies, detailed design of places for people, planting, biodiversity, transformation and change through time. Modules - core modules: Ecology, Design and Making, Landscape Architecture Thesis Project, Landscape Architecture: Portfolio, Landscape Architecture: Primer, Landscape Architecture: Reading, Research and Narrative, Professional Practice Seminars, Theory and Discourse in Landscape Urbanism.

Career pathways

Examples of recent graduate destinations for this and similar courses include: ; senior landscape architect, ARUP Environmental ; landscape architect, Churchman Landscape Architects London ; landscape architect, Gustafson Porter London and Seattle ; landscape architect, Grant Associates Bath ; associate director/landscape architect, AECOM ; landscape architect, HTA Design London ; director, Spacehub London You will be encouraged to engage closely with the diverse businesses that make London one of the most important centres for the creative industries. Students on this course have had the opportunity to work on collaborations with industry partners on both a national and international scale.

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