LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

OBJECTIVES

The Master’s in Landscape Architecture intends to transmit know-how in landscape design, planning and management specifically aimed at urban spaces including both cultural and natural terrains, rural spaces and landscape restoration.

These skills are acquired through learning about the natural and human processes continually impacting the formation of the landscape and directed at sustainable intervention in the environment. To this end, thorough methodological and practical knowledge is brought together with the development of the creative process and set upon the foundation of specific understanding of the humanities and applied sciences as well as on technical know how.

STRUCTURE

The Master consists of:

• a Specialization course, corresponding to an organized set of curricular units, which corresponds to 78 ECTS credits. It confers a Specialization in Architecture Landscape;
• A Dissertation of scientific nature or a Project, especially made for this purpose, or a Professional Internship with a final report, corresponding to 42 of the total of 120 credits, whose public defense may award the Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture.

STUDY PLAN

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

•  Holder of a first degree in Landscape Architecture or a degree in related fields as long as the CV of the candidate demonstrates an adequate scientific and artistic basic preparation;
• Holder of a foreign higher academic degree in one of the areas described in the previous paragraph;
•   Holder of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that the scientific committee of the course recognizes as sufficient to attest the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Candidates who have a Bachelor’s degree in the area of ​​the study cycle, according to the criteria defined by the Scientific Committee of the Master, will be placed first.

Placing will be done according to the following criteria and subcriteria:

• Academic curriculum (area of ​​training and average obtained) (50%)
  • Sub-criterion 1: training area (20%)
    • Degree in Landscape Architecture – 100
    • Points Degree in related areas – 50 Points
    • Other relevant degrees (for Graduates in related areas) – (0 to 30 Points)

• • Sub-criterion 2: grade average and adequacy (30%)

• Scientific curriculum and professional experience (50%)
  • Sub-criterion 1: Portfolio (25%)
  • Sub-criterion 2: Professional experience (15%)
  • Sub-criterion 3: publications (5%)
  • Sub-criterion 4: participation in research projects, artistic projects or participation in undergraduate courses in the cycle of studies (5%)

Criterion of tie-breaking candidates: Interview

Candidates who do not yet hold a bachelor’s degree and/or have a school, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting to the ability to carry out this cycle of studies by the statutory scientific body, will be serialized according to the criteria and sub-criteria indicated above, but replacing the final grade point average by the weighted average of the curricular units performed.

An interview may be held for candidates who did not attend the 1st cycle in Landscape Architecture of the FCUP in case any information in the Portfolio and in the Curriculum Vitae raise any doubt or need for clarification.