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Program information
Take your passion for design and urban environments to the next level in UBC鈥檚 Design in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism program. Through small studios and intimate seminars, you鈥檒l learn how design impacts society and the environment, and how the shaping of space can effect cultural change.
Program overview
- Campus
- Vancouver
- Program length
- 4 years
- Honours This option has additional requirements compared to those required in a Major specialization. Students must maintain high academic standing and may have to write a graduating thesis.
- Yes
- Co-op Co-op is an optional program where students alternate between academic terms and paid work terms. It’s an opportunity to gain relevant job experience while completing your degree.
- Yes
- Faculty
- School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Degree
- Bachelor of Design in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism
What you'll learn
The Bachelor of Design in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism program explores the connectedness of design across multiple scales 鈥� from the body to the city. The program revolves around a core design studio sequence that begins with foundational skills and culminates in the design of complex spaces. You鈥檒l build a strong foundation in critical thinking and the practical skills necessary to create environments that are socially and ecologically sustainable. Additional courses in history, theory, media, technology, and professional practice contribute to a holistic design curriculum.The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture offers a comprehensive woodworking shop as well as digital fabrication devices.
Experiential learning and research
Build a deep disciplinary foundation and develop essential skills through hands-on practical experience, collaborative work projects, and interdisciplinary learning opportunities that integrate architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. You鈥檒l have the opportunity to enrol in a where you鈥檒l tackle real-world problems, exploring and testing solutions and then executing them. Students in the environmental design program can participate in a mentorship program, lectures, studio reviews, and an annual exhibition of graduating student work.
Campus features
The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture offers a comprehensive woodworking shop as well as digital fabrication devices.
Program advantages
As a student in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism you’ll study with an award-winning faculty of internationally renowned experts, learn in small studios and intimate seminars that allow for low student-to-faculty ratios, and gain practical experience and mentorship in active design-build projects.
Courses
There are many courses you can take within Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism. Here are a few you might like.
Techniques applicable to analytic and technical drawing used in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design with focus primarily on analog drawing techniques.
An investigation of building materials and associated design objectives, environmental conditions, historical context, regulatory controls, and economic constraints.
Vancouver as a laboratory for design at the architectural and urban scale with a focused view into how design is implicated in the social, political, and environmental transformation of the city.
Core business skills, building on students’ design capabilities to pursue ethical and sustainable design-based business goals.
Outcomes
The Bachelor of Design program is distinctive in Canada in the way it integrates architecture and landscape architecture, producing graduates with a unique skill set that is broadly applicable to many career choices, including architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, lighting design, and other allied fields of design.
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Program requirements
Choose application type:
English-language requirements
English is the language of instruction at UBC. All prospective students must demonstrate English-language competency prior to admission. There are numerous ways to meet the聽English Language Admission Standard.
General admission requirements
IB Diploma Programme
- Completed IB Diploma, including at least three Higher Level courses.
IB Certificate Courses
- IB Certificate courses (Standard and Higher Level) may be used in an admissions average if you are graduating from a recognized high school curriculum that can be used as your basis of admission.
- IB Math Applications and Interpretations SL, or IB Math Studies, do not satisfy the math requirement for admission to UBC’s science-based programs, the Faculty of Management, the 51猎奇入口Sauder School of Business, or the Vancouver School of Economics.
Degree-specific requirements: Design in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism
- No specific courses required beyond those needed for general admission
- Video interview
- Creative test
- Resume
Related courses
The following聽subject categories聽are particularly relevant for this degree. Consider taking courses in these areas in your junior year and senior year.
- Language Arts
- Social Studies (Geography and/or History courses in particular)
- Visual and Performing Arts
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Want to learn more?
Visit the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture website to learn more about Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism.
Get a post-graduate work permit for up to three years if you are a full-time 51猎奇入口international student graduating from a bachelor’s degree program and meet all .
Want to learn more?
Visit the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture website to learn more about Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism.