Our department was established in 2010 within the Faculty of Architecture and Design and began its education and teaching activities by accepting its first undergraduate students in the 2018-2019 academic year. Scientific research and education-training activities are carried out by an academic staff of 6, consisting of 1 Professor, 1 Associate Professor, 3 Assistant Professors, and 1 Research Assistant.
The Department of Landscape Architecture prioritizes aesthetics and functionality in establishing balance between nature and humans. Our department adopts an approach sensitive to public health and local needs, analyzing and designing natural, cultural, and social environments from a holistic perspective. In this context, while pioneering work in the fields of sustainable environmental design and cultural heritage preservation at the national and international levels, it also makes significant contributions to global, national, regional, and local developments. In this way, it contributes to shaping the living spaces of the future in a more livable, sustainable, and community-oriented manner.
Our graduates have the opportunity to work in planning offices, municipalities, private landscape design firms, environmental consulting companies, public institutions, non-governmental organizations, and nurseries. Thus, our graduates are trained not only as professionals but also as individuals who contribute to society and the environment.
During the four-year education program of the Landscape Architecture Department;
-Courses related to planning, design, repair, conservation, management, and implementation,
-Courses related to the introduction and use of structural and plant materials,
-Courses related to landscape techniques,
-Courses based on natural and social sciences,
-Complementary courses, cultural courses, and elective courses are included.
At the end of the education process, Landscape Architecture students will have acquired the following:
- The ability to develop functional and aesthetic solutions based on creative talent and logical thinking in landscape planning and design work at all scales involving interaction between humans and nature,
- Possessing efficient, analytical, technical, communication (speaking, writing, explaining through graphics and drawings), and consulting skills,
- Demonstrating the ability to work independently and to work as a landscape architect who is compatible and responsible in interdisciplinary design and planning teams,
- Possess the ability to understand ecological, cultural, economic, and land management issues in connection with the diversity of work required in the public and private sectors,
- Possessing sufficient knowledge of current software (Computer-Aided Design, Modeling Programs, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing Technologies) in order to master the technological infrastructure developing in planning and design applications, and having a structure capable of quickly internalizing new developments.
Landscape Architecture Employment Areas
The Turkish Chamber of Engineers and Architects, Landscape Architects Chamber, has defined “Landscape Architecture Services” under the following headings in the Regulation on Freelance Landscape Architecture Consulting Services, Professional Supervision, Office Registration, and Minimum Fees.
Within this scope, landscape architects can be employed in all public institutions and organizations and in the private sector for the following tasks.
Landscape architecture services
ARTICLE 5 – (1) Landscape architecture services are specified below.
a) Landscape planning services;
1) Strategic landscape planning; creating future-oriented landscape development strategies, landscape conservation and use value analysis, and site selection for sectoral plans in terms of landscape conservation and use values for investment requests. Landscape planning scales numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4,
2) Conservation-oriented landscape planning: determining the conservation status of landscapes based on ecological landscape analysis, long-term landscape development plans and management plans for conservation areas, preparation and mapping of rural and urban biotopes, visual landscape analysis, and determining landscape conservation priorities in the environmental planning process. Landscape planning scales numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,
3) Restoration – landscape planning for the purpose of improvement and/or development; wetlands, waterfronts, ponds, dams, closed mines, highways, railways, ports, airports, pipelines, erosive areas, and similar intervened landscapes; monitoring and auditing all landscape plans, designs, projects, and reports related to the restoration, improvement, and development of these areas, as well as the implementation of such plans. Landscape planning scales 3, 4, and 5,
4) Landscape planning for solid waste landfill sites; services involving the creation of site selection alternatives based on landscape ecology principles for these areas, the assessment of the impact of existing landfill sites on the landscape, and the conversion of solid waste landfill sites into open and/or green spaces at the end of their useful life, along with landscape restoration. Landscape planning scales 3 and 4,
5) Transportation route landscape planning; services involving transportation network route selection, landscape conservation and use analysis, design, and project planning. Landscape planning scales 2 and 3,
6) Coastal and wetland landscape planning; landscape planning services based on the ecological mechanisms that shape coastal and wetland landscapes. Landscape planning scales 2, 3, and 4,
7) Landscape planning for tourism and/or recreation areas; landscape conservation and use analysis, design, and project development services based on tourism and/or recreation potential and requirements. Landscape planning scales 3, 4, and 5.
8) Landscape planning; determining landscape development strategies, analyzing and mapping biotopes, developing open and/or green space systems during the zoning plan preparation process, evaluating the visual landscape and aesthetic quality related to living, greenway planning (pedestrian, bicycle, recreational paths, and similar), ecological network planning in terms of dynamic connection with the natural environment, and analysis of landscape natural and cultural resources. Landscape planning scales 3, 4, and 5,
9) Landscape management; services performed to adapt to and guide changes created by natural and cultural processes in terms of the continuity of existing and/or planned landscapes. In this context, these are landscape architecture assessment services related to the management of landscape applications and environmental management tools such as environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA), and ecological impact assessment (EIA). Landscape planning scales numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
b) Landscape design, environmental planning, and project services; landscape design, environmental planning, and landscape project services for all open and/or green areas in the construction process, landscape survey, restoration, and restoration services, open and green area furnishing project services, and indoor plant design services.
c) Landscape architecture implementation and management services; professional supervision and technical implementation responsibility for open and/or green spaces, project management, site management, acceptance and delivery works.
ç) Landscape architecture technical consultancy services; expert witnessing, arbitration, expert assessment, jury membership, reporting in landscape architecture services; landscape project management, feasibility studies, program preparation, special research, work and process monitoring, measurement and discovery, tender file preparation, entitlements, final accounts, specification and contract preparation.
d) Ornamental plant production; coordination and planning of the production of plant material used in landscape design, environmental planning, project planning, and landscape implementation.
e) Maintenance, nature conservation, and restoration work in landscape implementation; services performed in relation to landscape implementation following landscape design, environmental planning, and project planning.
f) Other scientific, technical, and artistic work; services such as models, images, and animations, selection of the location and materials for works of art, and similar services in landscape design, environmental planning, and projects.
Landscape planning, design, environmental planning, project planning, and implementation process
ARTICLE 6 – (1) Landscape planning, design, environmental planning, project development, and implementation stages:
a) Project development services:
1) Feasibility study and preliminary project; These are draft projects or studies that are created based on the area data of the final requirement programs and include the procedures to be carried out, recommendations, and comparisons based on economic and similar factors related to the planning/design/project area. They include diagrams, graphs, explanations, and reports that can be drawn at any scale depending on the nature of the area, as well as plans, sections, and views that can be arranged according to this data to present ideas.
2) Final project; taking into account the size and nature of the planning/design/project area, it is the final solution for the design and construction, which is drawn at any scale in line with the approved preliminary project and whose applicability is determined according to existing legal procedures.
3) Implementation projects include all data necessary for the implementation of the approved final project of the planning/design/project area. They include structural and botanical application characteristics, codes and measurements, all elements of the equipment systems located in the structure and its surroundings that affect the project, analytical information related to the infrastructure, recommendations and references for the production and application of system details, the quality and characteristics of the materials used, and is a set of projects prepared with easily understandable drawing techniques, with the quality and adequacy to be used in all construction and implementation stages in offices and construction sites.
4) Detailed designs; these are all defined, dimensioned, visual representations of information related to construction and production techniques for all types of structural/plant equipment and fixtures required for the implementation of landscape application projects.
b) Tender file preparation services include: preparing the measurement basis for the survey, organizing price analyses for works not included in the unit price analysis, preparing the unit price list, organizing administrative and technical specifications, preparing the survey summary, and preparing the draft contract in accordance with the legislation, if requested by the administration or employer.
c) Landscape architecture professional supervision services; being present at the site handover after the tender related to the landscape application area, supervising all structural and botanical works related to landscape applications, communicating recommendations regarding necessary changes and details during implementation to the landscape architect designer through the administration or employer, attending the provisional acceptance, and submitting a copy of the appropriately scaled “as-built” project to the administration along with the Terms of Reference for Architectural and Engineering Services, which entered into force with the Council of Ministers Decision No. 85/9707 dated 16/7/1985.
ç) Technical implementation responsibility services; these are services that oversee the construction in accordance with professional authority and responsibility in the field of planning/design/project, approved projects and their annexes, applicable laws and regulations, regulations and specifications related to landscape architecture services, and rules of science and art.