The Institute of Urbanism and Landscape offers a two-year Master of Landscape Architecture, with a
particular focus on landscape urbanism. In the past decades, landscape urbanism has been brought to
the fore as a saviour of the professions of the built environment.
Today, the pressing challenges of climate change, resource and food security, landscape toxicity and
water scarcity, demand design research thinking combined with the passionate involvement of a multi-
plicity of stakeholders. The landscape architect has for too long been absent from the power and respon-
sibility arenas dealing with issues of the territory. At AHO, the focus is on the development of operative
strategies, which reinstate the resistive capacity of landscape projects across scales and in relation to
the ever-globalizing homogenization of territories. The program is premised upon a reengagement with
landscape from the perspective of the social and cultural transformation of territories and the innovative
means to strategically reformulate reality. Students work to develop means to shape possible futures for
parks, neighbourhoods, city districts and the larger stewardship of the landscape. Fieldwork is as impor-
tant as design work, and the latent qualities of existing sites are carefully, interpretively mapped as a
part of the creative design process.
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