Landscape Architecture & Design

Design spaces to bring people closer to nature. You'll reimagine cities and tackle our planet's environmental challenges on this landscape architecture degree.

From city parks and green streets to rural spaces, waterfronts, and urban places, landscape architecture shapes the way we experience and interact with the world outside. If you want a course where creativity meets purpose, this is it.

On this Landscape Architecture & Design degree, you'll be based in creative city-centre studios and dedicated landscape facilities. This is where your ideas become places that matter. You'll design for real people, real environments, and real challenges. The climate crisis. Biodiversity. Urban life. Wellbeing. Our changing countryside.

As part of this landscape architecture course, you'll:

• Explore how nature, people, and cities connect

• Develop creative, technical, and digital design skills by sketching, modelling, planting, and testing your ideas

• Dive into modules covering the theory, history, and design principles that underpin landscape architecture

• Design with sustainability, ecology, and climate-positive thinking at the core

• Tackle social and environmental challenges through studio projects and live briefs

• Build your confidence and refine your own design identity

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Design the future
Landscape architecture looks beyond the visual. It's also about how spaces function. You'll explore how outdoor environments can improve lives, support nature, and respond to a changing planet. On this course, you'll learn to use design as a tool for positive impact.

Get ready to make an impact
By the time you graduate, you'll know the change your ideas can create, and where they could take you next. This course is accredited by the Landscape Institute, giving you a recognised route into the profession and a strong foundation for a career as a landscape architect.

Bring the outdoors to life
On this landscape architecture course, you'll dig into what makes places come alive. You'll create experiences, not just designs, and discover how smart ideas can tackle social, climate, and environmental challenges head on.

Learn by doing
You'll spend your time in our dynamic studios. Making. Testing. Refining. Through a combination of drawing, model-making, and digital tools, you'll bring ideas to life. You'll also use our dedicated Landscape Resource Centre to gain hands-on experience with plants, habitats, and ecological design - something many landscape design courses don't offer.

Collaborate like a professional
At Leeds School of Architecture, collaboration with your peers is key. You'll work alongside future architects, interior designers, and urban thinkers, just like professionals do in practice. Guest speakers, site visits, live projects, and exhibitions will provide insight into the industry and the chance to showcase your work.

Why study the BA Landscape Architecture & Design course at Leeds Beckett University?

• 90% of graduates in work or further study 15 months after graduation* *

• A strong legacy in landscape education - Leeds School of Architecture has nearly 60 years of experience inspiring and shaping future landscape professionals

• Learn by doing - our hands-on studio culture and dedicated Landscape Resource Centre enable you to gain specialist landscape skills

• Collaborative studio culture - learn and collaborate with architecture and interior architecture students to mirror real-world design practices

• Stay connected with industry - you'll learn from practising landscape architects, take part in live projects, and showcase your work to potential employers

*Percentage of respondents from this course, HESA Graduate Outcomes 23-24

Course Modules

Year 1 Core Modules:

• Design Projects 1

• Histories & Theories 1

• Materials & Ecologies 1

• Design Projects 2

• Histories & Theories 2

• Materials & Ecologies 2

Year 2 Core Modules:

• Landscape Studio: Resilient Rural Landscapes

• Landscape Studio: Landscape Studio: Impact of Design

• Landscape Technology: Material, Management & Sustainability

• Landscape Studio: City Landscapes: Nature Based Solutions

• Landscape Studio: Creating Distinctive Places

• Landscape Context: Landscape: Culture & Theory

Year 3 Core Modules:

• Landscape Studio: Design & Community 1: Engagement & Vision

• Landscape Studio: Design & Community 2: Resolution & Detail

• Landscape Context: Project Research

• Landscape Studio: Landscape Futures: Placemaking

• Professional Context: Professional profile

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