Master in Landscape Architecture

The Master's in Landscape Architecture (MAPA) Program at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is a postgraduate program with both a professional and academic degree. It serves as a key space for theoretical, methodological, and instrumental reflection, fostering new imaginaries in landscape design and research. Its objective is to articulate a territory's ecological, social, and cultural dimensions through precise, contextual interventions.

Students develop design concepts and tools to address complex urban, ecological, and socio-cultural challenges through a multi-scalar approach with strong local roots. The selected projects demonstrate a commitment to locally addressed issues, highlighting the wide range of possibilities offered by the diverse Chilean landscape. This context functions as a dynamic laboratory for implementing landscape strategies aimed at fostering resilience and diversity.

Conceptually, these projects define landscape as a strategic representation of territory, a vital urban infrastructure, and a repository of cultural and ecological memory. These pillars underscore its fundamental contribution to urban resilience against disasters and climate change, as well as its importance in conserving environmental and cultural heritage.

Through a sequence of design workshops, the program integrates project exploration, formalizing theoretical and technical knowledge. The MAPA promotes the discipline of landscape architecture as one capable of synthesizing and relating diverse disciplinary approaches.