BS Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

On the basis of scientific, social scientific and artistic methods, students of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning gain the skills required to undertake the spatial planning development of urban and rural areas. Key content includes the creative exploration and changing of living environments in line with contemporary challenges in the national and global context. Students are trained to recognise, communicate, preserve and create qualities in the delicate balance between urban and rural areas. The field of work ranges from the spatial transformation of urban open spaces and urban planning to the development of large-scale landscape and nature conservation concepts in rural areas. Applicants should have a fundamental commitment to urban and rural areas, the area of conflict between nature and culture, explorative curiosity of places and the humans, animals and plants they accommodate, an interest in spatial change, and the willingness to communicate this interest to the public visually, verbally and in writing. The programme centres around practice-oriented projects which, in combination with seminars, lectures and field trips, enable students to acquire the foundations required on their path towards becoming a landscape architect and environmental planner. It is a broadly based programme, covering ecological, social, technical, historical, political and creative elements of the professional field at all scales.