DE110512C
Higher Diploma in Landscape Architecture
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The programme provides a rich learning experience for students with a passion for the environment and people, who aspire to become landscape architecture profession. It lays a foundation of both design philosophy and technical knowledge for students who intend to pursue the landscape architecture profession, providing the background training in landscape planning and spatial design skills, planting design, landscape architecture theory and history, landscape technology, and visual communication, for the students to practice or to advance to further studies in landscape architecture. It equips students with technical aptitude, professional knowledge and skills together with the necessary legal and managerial knowledge, professional language, leadership qualities, interpersonal and other generic skills, initially at a para-professional level, via the blending of theoretical knowledge and practical application, to enable them to pursue careers in the profession of landscape architecture. It also aims to cultivate a holistic approach to design education that encompasses both conceptual and professional concerns leading to graduates capable of independent decision-making. The programme is designed with an emphasis on generic, language and communication training, whole-person development and workplace experience to better prepare students for further studies and employment after graduation. |
Please refer to General Entrance Requirement
Graduates may be employed as landscape architectural assistants, project assistants and technical officers in landscape architectural firms, contractors, developers, and public sector. Graduates may also work for industries related to built environment design.
Graduates may articulate to the Degree programmes offered by Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi):
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Landscape Architecture
Graduates may also apply for admission to relevant Degree programmes of local universities:
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: BA (Hons) in Design (Environmental Design)
• The University of Hong Kong: BA in Landscape Studies
Students are eligible to apply for student membership of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA) and of the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA). Graduates with relevant Master's Degree and attaining the prescribed amount of relevant work experience can sit for professional examinations for membership in professional organisations and be qualified as Registered Landscape Architects.
1. Students may be required to attend classes on other VTC campuses. VTC reserves the right to cancel any programme, revise programme content or change the offering institute(s) / campus(es) / class venue(s) if circumstances so warrant.
2. This new programme with Chinese (Putonghua) as the medium of instruction (including some modules taught entirely in English) will be offered in the 2025/26 academic year. The accreditation of programme by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications will be conducted in 2025.
3. The revalidation of the programme will be conducted in 2025. The curriculum will be updated if circumstances so warrant.
4. Certain modules within the curriculum are delivered in Chinese. A higher level of Chinese proficiency is required.
The 1st semester Higher Diploma in Architecture, Interior and Landscape Design (Subject Group) common foundation studies curriculum:
• Creative and Design Thinking
• Architectural Visualization: Hand Drawing Technique
• Design Studio: Spatial Definition
• History and Theory of Design: Introduction
• Principles of Building: Structure and Construction
• Expanded Studies: Local Field Trip
• Essential Workplace Communication: Effective Oral Interaction
• Whole Person Development - MindShift: Achieving Personal Growth & Effectiveness
• IT Essentials - Design
Semester 2:
• Cultural Studies
• History and Theory: Contemporary Landscape Design
• Landscape Design Studio: Domestic Landscape
• Landscape Visualization: Hand to Digital
• Principles of Landscape: Plants and Design
• Professional Practice: Portfolio and Career Management
• Expanded Studies: Site Fundamentals
• Vocational Chinese Communication: Putonghua Conversation and Reports
• Essential Workplace Communication: Digital Written Correspondence
• Whole Person Development - Collaboration, Teamwork & Social Engagement (Part 1)
Semester 3:
• Aesthetics and Semiotics
• Landscape Design Studio: Site and City
• Expanded Studies: Community Workshop
• Expanded Studies: Urban Public Spaces
• Professional Workplace Communication: Storytelling and Job Search
• Whole Person Development - Collaboration, Teamwork & Social Engagement (Part 2)
• Enrichment Module B
Semester 4:
• History and Theory: Research Process and Practice
• Landscape Design Studio: Cultural Landscape
• Landscape Visualization: Computer Aided Design 2D + 3D
• Principles of Landscape: Landscape Ecology
• Expanded Studies: Vernacular Landscapes
• Vocational Chinese Communication: Putonghua Presentations and Promotional Text Writing
• Professional Workplace Communication: Proposal and Report Writing
• Enrichment Module A
Semester 5:
• History and Theory: Chinese Landscape Design
• Landscape Visualization: Computer Aided Design 3D + 4D
• Principles of Landscape: Sustainable Landscape Design
• Professional Practice: Landscape Design and Business
• Graduation Project for Landscape Architecture
• Professional Workplace Communication: Pitching and Persuasive Presentation
• Whole Person Development - Enhancing Competencies in the 21st Century Workplace
Modules across semesters:
• Industrial Attachment
Remark: The curriculum includes two Enrichment Modules.