Landscape architecture is a design discipline that works across a range of creative ideas, living systems, physical materials and future possibilities. It is about envisioning, investigating and proposing better ways of living in a complex and rapidly changing world.

RMIT offers a distinguished professional education consisting of a Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design degree (3 years) and an accredited Master of Landscape Architecture degree (2 years). Our degrees are recognised as a world-class facility which fosters design knowledge, critical thinking, and design advocacy through innovative teaching and research. 

How you will learn

Your studies will centre around design studios which provide a unique way of exploring ideas and creative practice

Design studio typically makes up half the degree each semester and is taught in small groups. You will focus on a particular design theme and project each semester. After the first semester, you’ll select from a range of studio offerings and learn specific design techniques to develop ideas and outcomes in relation to a project brief. Studios are vertically integrated, i.e. grouped with students from various year levels.

Design studios are supported by core subjects to develop specialised skills and knowledge in the following three areas:

Communications
Learn how to link design thinking, physical prototyping and digital experimentation to represent landscape in two, three and four dimensions.

Environments
Develop skills in analysing and constructing landscapes through mapping, modelling and fabrication.

Theoretical Frameworks

Interrogate design ideas in history and theory through creative and critical thinking and drawing. 

International opportunities

International exchange options are available to Universities in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the USA and across Asia.

A range of design studios also offer travelling opportunities overseas to engage in field work, workshops and design projects. Previous locations include Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, France, Spain and Uganda.

International Internships

Internship placements are offered to selected students in both the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees each year, allowing students to gain work experiences at acclaimed and award-winning practices overseas. Current internship partners include Stoss LU in Boston and EMF in Spain.

Career Outcomes

The Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design is a stand-alone award that provides employment options for those who seek to work in landscape design, or design more generally, in roles that do not require professional registration. To be eligible to become accredited as a landscape architect you must complete the Master of Landscape Architecture.

Landscape architects work in fields such as site design, urban design, park and recreational design, regional planning, ecological design and restoration.

Professional recognition and accreditation

To be eligible for accreditation as a Landscape Architect you must continue your studies and complete the Master of Landscape Architecture degree (MC172). MC172 satisfies the academic requirement to apply for registration as a practising Landscape Architect with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) (Landscape Architecture’s professional accrediting body).