Landscape architecture: History, theory and practice

About this programme

The aim of the course is to provide deep understanding of different landscape architecture and design theories and viewpoints through history and their relation to landscape architecture practice. Knowledge equivalent to 150 credits of which 90 credits in Landscape Architecture, and/or Architecture, and/or Urban Planning and/or Human Geography and/or Community Planning, and English 6, or admitted to the Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanisation – Master´s programme. A very warm welcome to LK0313, Landscape Architecture: History, Theory and Practice! The course runs from 31 August to 1 November 2026 at the Ultuna campus in Uppsala, and is taught in English. We are looking forward to spending the autumn thinking, reading, walking, mapping, writing and discussing with you. The aim of the course is to give you a deep understanding of different theories and viewpoints in landscape architecture and design through history, and of how they relate to landscape architecture practice. The course is organised along five themes: contemporary debates and current topics, site explorations, place, subjectivity, and reflecting on history. Within these themes, history, theory and practice are intertwined as perspectives on landscape architecture as a profession, a field of research, and an object of study. The course combines lectures and guest lectures, literature seminars in smaller groups, essay workshops, a mapping and transect-walk workshop (in Stockholm region), excursions and study visits (including an excursion in Gränby, Uppsala, and a visit to ArkDes in Stockholm), as