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PostGraduate Diploma Landscape Architecture
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA/MA IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Tutors: Mark Cowell, Kathryn Moore, Robert Camlin, Chris Beardshaw, Jeppe Aagard Andersen, Ruth Morrow This Programme is open to a range of students, forming the final element in the route to professional Landscape Architecture for both students from the ‘Conversion’ route or those with a first undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture. It is also open to overseas students with equivalent qualifications. Within a clearly defined modular structure covering issues such as sustainable landscape planning, professional practice, planting design, landscape materials and construction as well as a comprehensive, student-led, Thesis Design Project which requires students to demonstrate the full range of abilities needed in the professional discipline. It also enables students to begin to define and explore their own ‘position’ and interests in the discipline. Within this framework, the design teaching has a number of notable features: The Design Process Studios Building a keen sense of social responsibility, the design process studios are set within the context of Birmingham’s Big City Plan and key global challenges such as climate change, health, food security and the supply of water. Keen observation of the impact ideas and form have on the people who live, work or visit the places we create informs the interpretation of the initial design inspiration to generate form with knowledge of the culture and traditions of the medium. The skill and confidence to manipulate this spatial, visual and conceptual discourse nourishes and invigorates every stage of the process, to build a critically rigorous, artistic
body of work that deals with the challenges of creating elegant landscapes for everyday life. International Studio: Ideas and Materiality and Critical Design Creating theory to inform design practice, exploring the expression of ideas in detailed design and the potential of new technologies, new styles and aesthetic approaches, the detailed design modules, IDEAS AND MATERIALITY (construction) and CRITICAL DESIGN (planting), are supported by a highly acclaimed international lecture series when a range of expert local,