Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design

Candidates are required to have a Bachelor degree in Architecture and to produce a portfolio.

The Master of Science in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design shall respond to the immediate threats of climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation.

The programme is designed for graduates who wish to explore how architecture and landscape can engage with contemporary cultural, political, media, environmental and justice issues.

The programme considers the potential for architecture and landscape to become activators of a sustainable future.
In the title SALd, "sustainable" is a unifying concept, indicating that both architecture and landscape design should adhere to sustainability principles. Both elements are designed to work together in an environmentally responsible way, promoting efficiency, resource conservation, and long-term environmental health.
The SALd programme offers a design research track for the next generation of architects who wish to develop their original research agenda and design practice. It places architecture and landscape in an expanded context, inviting students to critically examine the fields - questioning their definitions, sites, scales, concerns, methods, media and underlying values. Moving beyond the traditional focus on form, the programme explores the planetary processes affecting land and life, emphasising specific sites and situated perspectives.

This broadened approach encourages the integration of knowledge and methodologies from related disciplines while centred on design research to create more liveable futures.

Theories of architecture, city and landscape, History of Achitecture and Landscape in the Contemporary Age, Structures and Technical Environmental System, Architectural Design Studio 1 (Sustainable architecture, Multi-criteria Analysis and Project Appraisal), Sociology of the Environment, Urban and environmental design studio (Design of Public Spaces and Infrastructures, Agronomy and Food Sciences), Urban and landscape Regeneration Studio (Environmental Technology, Landscape as Heritage, General Ecology), Landscape Representation and BIM Applications, Landscape Design Studio (Advanced Landscape Design, Physical Geography and Geo-Morphology), Architectural Design Studio 2 (Advanced Architectural Design, Landscape Aesthetics).
Elective courses
Topography and Cartography, Innovation for Design Management, Creativity and Architecture in the Movies, Italian Territories and Landscape Tradition, Architectural Strategies in Risk Situations.
Final Workshop: Landscape, Architecture Design, Urban Design, Environmental Design.

The programme trains architects with an expertise in sustainable architecture and landscape design, to follow a career in the private and public sector as covered by EU directives in: architecture, urban planning, urban design and landscape architecture.

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