At The Bartlett the Design Studio is the basis of design teaching and learning. Landscape Architecture design teaching is delivered by Design Studios each taught by two or more design professionals who are part-time academics. Each studio presents an individual design programme that reflects their studio pedagogy and approach to innovative Landscape Architecture.

You will attend introductory lectures, seminars, individual and group tutorials and crits (where you will present you work in an open forum, for comment and discussion). Site visits to natural areas and constructed sites introduce site analysis and understanding of a range of design outcomes.

As the year progresses you will undertake a series of projects that increase in scale and complexity. Design projects are informed by and developed alongside the Landscape Inhabitation and Environmental Systems (BARC0115) module for which students are required to produce a Design Project Review.

Landscape Design 3 – the third and major design studio-based module builds on the work undertaken in the Landscape Design 1 & 2, particularly studies of site and the aims, ambitions and processes of design strategies.

You will envisage and develop a landscape design for a specific site of an increased scale as well as multiple design scales, drawing and modelling it in ways appropriate to the chosen proposal, and indicating modes of inhabitation for the site. The module explores many landscape architecture dimensions in depth to reach high-level design inspiration, strategic thinking and technical resolution.

This and the concurrent Landscape, Inhabitation, and Environmental Systems module are the culmination of the first (preparatory) year of the two-year MLA programme.

Landscape Design 3 

The aims are to:

· develop processes of landscape appraisal, evaluation and precedent research

· synthesise professional, technical and environmental issues in a detailed design using iterative and reflexive design processes within the framework of a final design project

· demonstrate design skills that develop through experimentation and speculative research in an original approach to urban design

· develop and refine landscape representation and interpretation techniques

You will gain:

• understanding of Landscape Architecture concepts and techniques

• skill in the manipulation of these concepts to create a novel design proposal with the aim of transforming a given context

• critical and creative skill in communication and presentation techniques in a seminar/crit setting and in portfolio preparation