Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design (MC-LARCHUD) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Knowledge:

• Advanced design knowledge and skills from studio-based courses that contribute to the improvement of our built, social and natural environments.
• Advanced knowledge of design representation and communication medias.
• Knowledge of landscape architectural historical ideas and theory and critical skills to interpret historical ideas, environmental movements and contemporary trends.
• Knowledge of recent developments in the landscape architecture discipline and professional practice.
• Critical engagement with parameters of cross-disciplinary and international contemporary practice.
• Knowledge of landscape materiality, construction and documentation.
• Knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to the practice of landscape architecture.
• Knowledge in urban design and related areas, enabling them to play an integrating role between the built environment disciplines, including architecture, landscape, and planning.
• Understanding of a broad range of urban design theories, and their practical application.
• Knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to urban studies.
• Understanding of recent developments in the field.

Skills:

• Cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex site attributes, information, challenges and opportunities to develop responsible and ecologically sound and novel design solutions.
• The ability to use resources, materials and technologies to develop responsible and ecologically sound and novel design solutions.
• Cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of landscape architecture theoretical knowledge and to reflect critically on scholarship and professional practice.
• Communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret landscape architecture design propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• The ability to develop design and research strategies within interdisciplinary teams supported by excellent communication skills.
• Cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice.
• Communication skills to present projects that contribute to professional practice or scholarship.

Application of knowledge and skills:

• The ability to bridge between the arts and sciences, design and the environment, and engage in core ecological, cultural and social issues in both urban and rural societies.
• The ability to respond with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning.
• The ability to work individually and collaboratively with high level personal autonomy and accountability.
• The ability to think strategically and creatively in addressing key urban design issues.
• The ability to work individually and collaboratively to establish and evaluate requirements and priorities in new project situations and effectively contribute to urban design projects.
• The ability to plan and execute a substantial research-based project, capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship.

Graduates of the Master of Landscape Architecture/Master of Urban Design will demonstrate:

• Effective written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to communicate complex ideas to a range of audiences
• Critical and analytical skills to identify and resolve complex problems
• Ability to learn and use appropriate technologies
• Effective organisational, time management and planning skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and productively in groups