Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design (MC-LARCHUD) // Course structure
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Master of Landscape Architecture
Wendy Walls
Master of Urban Design
David Mah
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Course structure
300 point program
All students must complete:
- 287.5 points core subjects in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
- 12.5 points elective
400 point program
All students must complete:
- 375 points core subjects in in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
- 25 points electives
Subject options
Students entering the Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design from a non cognate discipline will undertake the 400 point program
Year 1
First 100 points for students with an undergraduate major or degree in a non cognate discipline:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90107 | Landscape Studio 1: Design Techniques | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| HORT90033 | Plants in the Landscape | Semester 1 (On Campus - Burnley) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90271 | Shaping the Landscape | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90176 | Landscape Studio 2: Site and Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| ABPL90283 | Ecology for Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Plus 12.5 points of Architecture or Landscape Architecture electives:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90017 | Urban Design Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90020 | Measured Drawings & Digital Heritage | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90075 | Urban and Landscape Heritage | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90085 | Construction History | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90086 | Environmental Systems | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90089 | Australian Architecture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90120 | Building Sustainability | No longer available | |
| ABPL90121 | Compositional Analysis | No longer available | |
| ABPL90123 | Advanced Computational Design | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90124 | The Architecture of Wishful Thinking | No longer available | |
| ABPL90146 | Architectural Conservation in Asia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90147 | Design Futures | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90149 | Contemporary Digital Practice | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90152 | Bower Studio - Community Development | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90153 | Complex Building Energy Modelling | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90173 | Advanced Planting Design | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90222 | F_Lab: Bespoke Furnitures |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ABPL90236 | Design Approaches and Methods (PG) | No longer available | |
| ABPL90241 | Representing Heritage | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90268 | Facade Design and Construction | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90272 | Regenerative Sustainability | No longer available | |
| ABPL90282 | Principles of Heritage and Conservation | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90304 | Flexible Urban Modelling | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90305 | Design Research | No longer available | |
| ABPL90310 | Construction Industry and Environment | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90316 | The Shaping of Urban Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90319 | GIS In Planning, Design & Development | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90321 | Building the Brief: People Process Place | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90322 | Human Environments Relations | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90336 | Craft in Traditional Asian Architecture | No longer available | |
| ABPL90340 | Landscape Materialities | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90341 | Urban Environmental Policy and Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90354 | Robin Boyd Studio | No longer available | |
| ABPL90355 | Issues and Techniques in Global Heritage | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90357 | Forms and Politics in Architecture | No longer available | |
| ABPL90361 | Ex_Lab: Experimental Furniture Futures | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90366 | Urban Informatics | No longer available | |
| ABPL90367 | Critical&Curatorial Practices in Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90368 | Architecture and Media | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90369 | Architecture as Spectacle | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90370 | Design Management | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90371 | Design Activism | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90373 | Digital: Craft, Design and Make | No longer available | |
| ABPL90377 | Design for Ageing | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90378 | DF_Lab: Designing Making | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90380 | Designing for Heat in the Public Domain | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90385 | Applied Heritage Conservation Techniques | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90386 | AA Visiting School Graduate | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90388 | Polemic Design in East Asia | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90394 | ZEMCH Sustainable Design Workshop | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90403 | Visions and Agendas in Architecture | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90404 | Place Making for The Built Environment | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90405 | Energy & Carbon in the Built Environment |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ABPL90412 | R_Lab: Made by Robots | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90417 | Environment Behaviour Methods for Design | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90418 | Asian Built Environments Design Legacies | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90419 | Contemporary Architectural Archives | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90420 | Interactive Architecture | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
| ABPL90421 | Design - Philosophy - Architecture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90422 | SI_Lab: Spatial Information | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90429 | Venice Studio | No longer available | |
| ABPL90430 | Design with Country: Resilience Studio | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| EDUC90728 | Innovative Spaces and Pedagogy | No longer available | |
| EVSC90022 | Bushfire Urban Planning | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| EVSC90023 | Building Behaviour in Bushfires | September (Online) |
12.5 |
| LARC90001 | Placemaking : Design for Landscape | No longer available | |
| PLAN90002 | Comparative Urban Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Students entering the Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design from a cognate discipline (Landscape Architecture major) with 100 points of advanced standing (above subjects) will undertake the 300 point program (starting point for students with a Landscape Architecture major)
Year 2
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90078 | Contemporary Landscape Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90061 | Urban Design Studio A |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
| ABPL90170 | Landscape Studio 4 Strategies | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| ABPL90074 | Landscape Detail Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90265 | History of Landscape Architecture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Plus 12.5 points of Urban Design electives:
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2024/courses/mc-urbdes/course-structure
Year 3
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90172 | Landscape Studio 3 Speculations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
| ABPL90263 | Constructed Ecologies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90017 | Urban Design Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90273 | Urban Design Studio B |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
| ABPL90131 | Strategic Plan Making | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90048 | Landscape Practice | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Year 4
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABPL90389 | Urban Design Studio C |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
| ABPL90246 | The Economies of Cities and Regions | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90130 | Planning Law & Statutory Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ABPL90375 | Landscape Architecture Design Thesis |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
| ABPL90376 | Urban Design Thesis |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
Last updated: 16 April 2025