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The history of its origins
In 1955, a Chair of Garden Art, Landscape Design and Engineering Biology was established for the first time at the then TH Dresden. Within the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Werner Bauch's Chair provided comprehensive training for civil engineers and architects.
The TU Dresden has also offered a degree program in landscape architecture since 1970. It emerged from the Department of Garden and Landscape Culture at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at Humboldt University in Berlin. Well-known university lecturers in the young university degree program - which was only established in 1929 - were the garden director of Berlin, Erwin Barth, the garden and landscape architect Georg Bela Pniower and the creator of the IGA Erfurt, Reinhold Lingner.
Since the move to Dresden, the degree program has been affiliated with the Faculty of Architecture (page 025 Faculty of Architecture and Landscape), which makes it easier to organize joint courses for landscape architects and architects.
From 1970 until the fall of communism, Dresden was the only university landscape architecture training center in the GDR, and TU Dresden is still the only university with a degree program in landscape architecture in eastern Germany - with the exception of TU Berlin. The diploma program was reformed in 1995 and replaced by the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in landscape architecture in 2010/11.
The Institute of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture education is primarily the responsibility of the Institute of Landscape Architecture with its five teaching areas of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning, Landscape Construction, Plant Use in Landscape Architecture and History of Landscape Architecture. In addition, the Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydrosciences teaches the basic natural science subjects as well as some artistic and design subjects and the history of architecture at various chairs of architecture.
Profile of the course
The structural characteristic is the cooperation of a manageable core group of Chairs in Landscape Architecture with a wide network of subjects within the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape and with other faculties of TU Dresden. With the five Chairs of Landscape Planning, Landscape Architecture, History of Landscape Architecture/Horticultural Heritage Conservation, Landscape Architecture and Plant Use, the central competencies and areas of responsibility of the profession are represented in the degree program. The integration of other faculty and external Chairs, particularly in Architecture and Environmental and Engineering Sciences, also offers the opportunity to acquire skills in interdisciplinary work during the course.
The traditionally close links between the Architecture and Landscape Architecture degree programs in both research and teaching should be emphasized. Urban planning, building theory, building history, design principles, design theory and construction economics are compulsory modules in the landscape architecture course.
The consecutive Landscape Architecture degree program, consisting of a six-semester Bachelor's degree (180 credit points) and a four-semester Master's degree (120 credit points), is part of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at TU Dresden.
By limiting enrolment numbers to a maximum of 55 first-year students per year in both the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses, individual support and personal exchange between students and lecturers is made possible.