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MLA: Master’s in Landscape Architecture

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Program brief

For over 30 years, the Landscape Program at CEPT University has shaped how landscape is taught and practised in India — moving beyond garden making to address environmental, social, and urban challenges. Through experimenting with learning approaches, the program creates quality professionals who work with leading landscape architecture and design firms in India and abroad, establish their own practices, or pursue teaching and research.

We empower our students to become environmental stewards, equipping them to restore degraded landscapes and create resilient new environments. By transcending traditional boundaries, we prepare future professionals to navigate and shape the evolving environmental and cultural challenges of practice in India. Our strategy for the program is about creating a structured approach for students to acquire essential skills through each semester. The approach is meant to be cumulative, with students building on their competencies as they progress through each semester.

By the end of our program, students develop a thorough understanding of landscapes, including their dynamics and the various factors that shape them. You shall leave with skills in landscape planning, design, and management, and be able to create new landscapes or conserve existing ones. You should also be equipped to identify and assess landscapes, develop physical and programmatic outcomes that are appropriate for the context, and create policies and designs that protect, manage, and plan landscapes while also involving stakeholders in the process.

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Chandrani Chakrabarti Program Chair - Master’s in Landscape Architecture
Faculty of Architecture

Program Structure

Degree Title: M.Arch.
M.A.
Major: Landscape Architecture
Duration: Two Years
Total Credits: 80 across two years

Key Features

We offer modules of studios, lectures, and cross-disciplinary elective courses and study tours across summer-winter schools, held in the breaks between semesters. Our studios are exploratory environments for students that synthesise the learning from different courses into a practical design framework. Lectures provide students with the theoretical constructs within which landscape operates, and cross-disciplinary electives allow them to explore landscape from various perspectives.

We begin the program with Foundation Studio, a mandatory first-semester studio for all incoming students. It establishes a shared understanding of landscapes, building the essential concepts, skills, and ways of thinking needed for advanced study in landscape architecture - a discipline distinct from core architecture. Beyond this, each landscape studio aligns with one of three themes: Landscape Process, exploring natural and human-driven systems and their transformations; Natural Resources, emphasising conservation, recovery, and sustainable management; and Socio-cultural Heritage, examining historical and contemporary landscapes that shape identity and community through cultural and social dynamics.