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Master of Landscape Architecture
Melbourne City
Landscape Architecture at RMIT is a world-leading program.
Become a leader and innovator in Landscape Architecture with RMIT globally celebrated program.
RMIT’s Landscape Architecture is a world-leading program, having previously won the International Schools Award at the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture held in Barcelona and taking first place ahead of more than 90 universities involved.
The judges declared that the work from RMIT showed our students’ ability to ’respond to modern challenges in society through critical analysis, innovative design and clever use of space’.
The Master of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University will equip you to become a leader and innovator in Landscape Architecture practice.
You will explore landscape as a medium that exists at all scales, from micro to macro, from garden to city, from political to infrastructural, from social to economic; and as a medium specific to site, time, and process.
You will be encouraged to engage profoundly with the discipline of Landscape Architecture as one that can respond to the challenges of a complex rapidly changing world through innovative design at the juncture of the urban and natural environments.
Design research projects undertaken within this program sit at a contemporary and international level. This enables you to understand the roles and responsibilities of a landscape architect at a global level while been able Landscape Architecture in local situations. You will investigate issues and topics that are relevantly related to the urgency of envisioning sustainable environments in urban and natural contexts increasingly affected by climate change, natural disasters and misappropriation of land.
International student visa holders can only study full-time.
Design studios typically make up the majority of this program and are taught in small groups. You will select which design studio you wish to follow from approximately 15 on offer, completing one per semester during the course of your studies. Each design studio focuses on a particular theme and project per semester.
In your final year, you will complete a design thesis of your choice which is referred to as your 'major project'. This project will develop on the research outcomes reached at the conclusion of your landscape architecture studies.
All programs are delivered in English.
You will have access to online resources through the myRMIT student portal.
Acclaimed and award winning international and Australian landscape architects, architects, urban designers and experts in related fields are consistently involved with the teaching and research projects undertaken within this program.
Industry-based projects occur throughout the design studios, such as working with Grand Designs Live and the award winning landscape architecture practice Oculus. Many public lectures are also held throughout the year, led by prominent local and international landscape architects and urban designers.
RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice.
This program will prepare you for the professional practice of landscape architecture. Working independently or as part of a large multidisciplinary team, landscape architects find career opportunities in:
- the public and private sectors
- government organisations at federal, state and municipal level
- the offices of landscape architects, architects, planners, urban designers and engineers throughout Australia.
From urban design projects (plazas and pedestrian precincts) to working with large open spaces (parks and nature reserves), the parameters of projects are broad.
Graduates may also become involved in smaller projects such as private gardens, historic estates and productive landscapes.
Professional recognition and accreditation
Graduates can apply for accreditation with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), the profession's accrediting body.
The landscape program offers a huge range of international exchanges and design studios as well as internship opportunities. In recent years students have participated in design studios in Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, France, Spain, and Africa, been on exchange to universities in Berlin, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the USA, and participated in international internship programs in the USA and the Netherlands.
An internship elective is offered to selected students in both the Bachelor of Design and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees at a range of firms including the Karres en Brands office in the Netherlands and Stoss LU in Boston. Karres en Brands was the appointed landscape architect firm for Melbourne's Federation Square.
RMIT’s Global Mobility Office supports students to undertake an exchange or short-term mobility activity with over 165 partner universities worldwide.
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Melbourne VIC 3000
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Leading innovation in landscape architecture
Through contemporary teaching methods and design studios, RMIT University fosters the next generation of leaders and innovators in landscape architecture practice.