Teaching and research in landscape architecture at the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, is rooted in the rich cultural heritage of the Canton Region and the vast water born landscape of the Pearl River Delta. Here Chinese landscape design continually met influences from abroad, yet adopted the art and craft of design to the regions typical natural processes that are related to climate, abundance of water and challenging topography. Extensive growth in urban population has provided additional challenges to landscape architects.
The Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, SCUT-LA, was found in Jan. 2014, but the university has a long history in the education, research and practice of landscape architecture. In 1949, Course of Garden Design was offered by the Department of Architecture. Since then, our professors dedicated to research of Lingnan Garden in the Pearl River Delta, and Chinese landscape building, hard landscape, and so on.
Now, the SCUT-LA have the whole the programs in the landscape architecture education. We can provide the degrees and programs such as: 4 years Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) Program, 2.5-3 years Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) Program, 4 years Doctor of Philosophy in Landscape Architecture Program (Ph.D.LA), and 2 years Postdoctoral Program in Landscape Architecture (PPLA).
There are about 20 standing faculties in the SCUT-LA. The department has a broad international academic background, with many instructors holding educational qualifications from prestigious overseas institutions such as Harvard University and Cornell University in the United States; RMIT University in Australia; the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and theÉcole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-la Villette in France; Kyushu University and Kobe Design University in Japan. Some faculty members have visiting scholar experience at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and Texas A&M University in the United States; Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands; the University of Göttingen and the Technical University of Munich in Germany; University College London, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom; Politecnico di Torino in Italy; the National University of Singapore; and the University of Hong Kong. The college is fully equipped with the essential conditions for cultivating international students.
We believe that landscape research plays an important role in landscape architecture discipline. A wide range of research areas are:1) Landscape History, Culture and Conservation, 2) Landscape Planning, Design and Theory, 3) Landscape Science and Technology, 4) Architecture as Landscape.
Department of Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture
South China University of Technology
No.381, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 510641, P. R. China
Contact: Guangsi Lin
Email: arlgs@scut.edu.cn
