International Master’s Degree

The proposal "Towards New Terrestrial Landscapes" brings together the experiences of the most advanced levels of landscape architecture education at the Cagliari School of Architecture: the Graduate Thesis Laboratory: Productive Landscapes - FORMA TERRAE within the Master's Degree Program in Architecture, and the II level International Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture, promoted by DICAAR and the Municipality of Carbonia, focusing on the multiple themes of contemporary landscape and environment.

These programs are part of the complex and extensive research that the Cagliari School of Architecture has undertaken and continues to pursue on landscape, along with other activities such as theoretical and design courses, workshops, and international summer schools, seminars, and conferences that have hosted leading figures in Italian and international landscape architecture. Recently, these two advanced landscape design programs have been brought together by the topic of the return to terrestrial landscape, both as a manifestation of a workable, material, and productive reality and as a field of experimental research on the themes of ecology, the environment, and the use of natural resources.

Forma Terrae has explored the themes of excavating, cultivating, and extracting the soil for new forms of production modeling and ecology of public space. All the projects presented stood out for their excellent thematic framework and significant depth at various scales, as well as for their interpretation, ranging from the scale of the city and its landscape to the morphologies and ecological structures of specific places. In some cases, there was also notable technical and architectural development.

Now in its third edition, the Second-Level International Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture programme fosters advanced technical, cultural, and design skills in the field of landscape architecture, with a strong focus on sustainability and territorial regeneration. Teaching is structured around real-world challenges and on complex and fragile territories, producing experimental design strategies aligned with the Paris 2030 Agenda and the European Landscape Convention. It prepares participants for professional roles in landscape architecture, urban and territorial planning, and environmental design, equipping them to operate in interdisciplinary and international contexts.