波士顿建筑学院

The BAC's Master of Landscape Architecture is a professionally accredited program that prepares you to become a licensed landscape architect. Through studio work in urban design, planning, and site design, you gain knowledge over natural and constructed systems that shape sustainable urban spaces. Design concepts are supported by media and technology courses, providing you with representation skills and construction technology expertise.

Our innovative approach to education integrates real-world design practice with traditional classroom learning. At the BAC, you earn credit working in professional firms, conducting community service, or exploring areas of applied research. Because students come to the BAC with a range of experience and education, we work with you to find the quickest path to your goal qualified students can graduate in as few as 2 years.

The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) Degree is a three-year graduate program focused on urban landscapes and ecological infrastructure. Post-professional degree candidates (those with a bachelor's degree in design or architecture-related fields) may accomplish the MLA program with advanced standing.

Foundation

All entering graduate BAC students share their first semester studio and are exposed to extensive principles of design thinking. Fundamental design concepts and a universal spatial language are framed. Courses in history and theory, critical reading and research, design media, including freehand and digital 2D and 3D representation, mark the beginning of the master's program.

Integration

Students are led through a more complex set of spatial problems addressing global, regional, and local aspects of urban landscape architecture and urban design systems thinking. New and revitalized polycentric urban cores and their livable communities are considered via natural and constructed ecologies, and then designed for their optimal spatial and cultural potential. Throughout the program, students explore landscape architecture technologies, including sustainable infrastructure principles and applications, and develop a deeper comprehension of the social significance of spatial history and design. Existing methodologies for sustainable thinking, through both research and applied learning, is a consistent focus of the study.

Synthesis

Students enter an independent phase of thesis research and studio. At this stage, students formulate individual proposals in an area of professional inquiry, and must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding, knowledge and mastery of the applied study of landscape architecture.