Advanced Landscape Design

The Bartlett’s MLA and MA programmes are committed to an agenda of climate-focused landscape design and environmental stewardship, preparing students to address sustainability and deal with real-world challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and ecological crises. The core priority of the MLA and MA programme is to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to innovatively respond to ecological, urban, and social challenges through their work with natural and built environments.  

The programmes are design-led and Design Studios form a core component, giving students the opportunity to work to develop their own approach to landscape architecture. Within the Studios, tutors present unique, rigorous, challenging, and even radical intellectual positions, providing a strong identity for students working individually and in groups and exploring real-world environments during field and site study trips.  

Design teaching is complemented with history and theory lectures, seminars, and readings, examining the interdependence of thought, action, and form in history, society, culture, and geography. Students refine their communication skills through seminar presentations, written work, design reviews, and exhibitions. A series of workshops and classes are available to help students gain integral skills, from planting and horticulture to digital skills and GIS. An open lecture series and film nights, amongst other extra-curricular activities, enable students to engage with the broader relationships that surround their studies.