About the Department

The Department of Landscape Architecture, located within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, was established in accordance with the decision of the Higher Education Executive Board meeting dated 24.09.2014.

Landscape Architecture is a professional discipline that systematically examines the concepts of planning, design, management, conservation, and rehabilitation of natural, cultural, historical, sociological, and social entities/values, bringing together art, science, engineering, and technology to engage in area design, planning, management, and restoration.

A Landscape Architect is authorized to produce physical plans for the preservation and utilization of all natural and cultural assets in urban and rural plans at national, regional, and local scales, to design structural and vegetative area designs of all open spaces in zoning plans, solving the urban-rural relationship, and to provide landscape architecture services for all active and passive recreational services on open and green spaces according to their formation, professional expertise, and occupation; in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations, and bylaws of the Chamber of Landscape Architects of TMMOB, fulfilling their obligations to maintain their membership status and title, and are unrestricted freelance, public officials, or salaried employees.

Purpose of the Department

Landscape Architecture is defined as a combination of environment, design, art, and science. Everything in urban and rural outdoor spaces, all interactions between human and natural systems, are within Landscape Architecture and concern a wide area. The Department of Landscape Architecture aims to train human resources capable of working on the planning, arrangement, conservation, and development of the environment, which has deteriorated as a result of rapid urbanization, in accordance with economic, functional, ecological, and aesthetic measures in line with human needs, and on urban and rural green space and recreation planning.

Fields of Study

Landscape architects provide services in a wide perspective, from developing large-scale landscape plans to preparing management plans, from making national park plans to designing city squares and parks, from urban and suburban open green spaces, building gardens, mass housing environments, parks, children's playgrounds, sports complexes, conservation areas (national parks, biotopes, etc.), restoration of problematic areas (mines, landfill sites, etc.), preparing landscape restoration plans, contributing to ecosystem assessment reports, re-evaluating natural sites, to arranging recreation areas, botanical gardens, and touristic and historical sites.

Landscape architects operate with a broad vision on a global scale. In recent years, the influence of Landscape Architects has increased in globally important topics such as climate change, creating sustainable societies, water, housing policies, and combating hunger.

Tuition Fee

International student fee: Annual: 26,468.00 ₺ Per Semester: 13,234.00 TL ₺

Fee for Turkish Republic citizen students (those extending their study period or with a second university): Annual: 1,677.00 ₺ Per Semester: 838.50 ₺

Education and Training Model

The Landscape Architecture Bachelor's program is Regular Education (first education) and the education-training plan consists of 240 ECTS. The language of instruction is Turkish. The program meets the First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) qualifications defined in the Overarching Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area (QF-EHEA), the Sixth Level (Bachelor's Education) Qualifications defined in the Turkish Higher Education Qualifications Framework (TYYÇ), and the Sixth Level qualifications defined in the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL). Students who successfully complete the program are awarded a Bachelor's Degree in Landscape Architecture.

Landscape Architecture is a professional discipline that systematically examines the concepts of planning, design, management, conservation, and rehabilitation of natural, cultural, historical, sociological, and social entities/values, bringing together art, science, engineering, and technology to engage in area design, planning, management, and restoration.

A Landscape Architect is authorized to produce physical plans for the preservation and utilization of all natural and cultural assets in urban and rural plans at national, regional, and local scales, to design structural and vegetative area designs of all open spaces in zoning plans, solving the urban-rural relationship, and to provide landscape architecture services for all active and passive recreational services on open and green spaces according to their formation, professional expertise, and occupation; in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations, and bylaws of the Chamber of Landscape Architects of TMMOB, fulfilling their obligations to maintain their membership status and title, and are unrestricted freelance, public officials, or salaried employees.

Our department started undergraduate education in the 2016-2017 academic year. Education, training, and research activities are carried out with its young, dynamic, hardworking, and knowledgeable academic staff. In our department, there are a total of 7 (seven) faculty members and 2 (two) research assistants in 3 (three) main branches of science:

-Landscape Planning Main Branch of Science: 1 Prof. Dr., 1 Assoc. Prof. Dr., 1 Res. Asst.

-Plant Material Main Branch of Science: 1 Prof. Dr., 1 Dr. Lecturer

-Landscape Design Main Branch of Science: 1 Assoc. Prof. Dr., 2 Dr. Lecturers, 1 Res. Asst 

When looking at the graduate education opportunities in our department; since 2015, there are 2 (two) master's and 2 (two) doctoral programs in two main branches of science, one of which is interdisciplinary:

-Landscape Architecture ABD Thesis Master's and Doctoral Programs

-Spatial Planning and Design ABD Interdisciplinary Thesis Master's and Doctoral Programs

Why MAKÜ Landscape Architecture Department?

Young, dynamic, hardworking, and internationally knowledgeable and experienced academic staff,

-Consultancy services for students' educational activities and also for their professional development,

-Educational opportunities suitable for interdisciplinary work,

-Educational approach in classrooms along with studio and computer laboratories,

-24/7 library access and study opportunity,

-Minor program opportunity (Architecture Department),

-Opportunity to benefit from ERASMUS, MEVLANA, and FARABI exchange programs and to do internships abroad,

-Opportunity to benefit from social and sports facilities throughout the year,

-Opportunity to participate in many student clubs within the university,

-Widespread job opportunities in a professional sense after graduation,

-Opportunity to register with the Chamber of Landscape Architects (PMO) during undergraduate education (PMO-Genç) and afterwards,

-With its infrastructure ready for accreditation,

etc. for these reasons, MAKÜ Landscape Architecture Department…

Our Fields of Work

The areas in which our constantly developing and growing academic staff work:

-Land and Water Resources Management and Planning

-Plant Design

-Geographic Information Systems

-Ecology, Sustainability, and Energy

-History of Landscape Architecture

-Landscape Engineering and Landscape Restoration

-Landscape Planning

-Use of Computer Technologies in Planning and Design

-Landscape Design

-Landscape Management

Our Core Department Courses

-Drawing and Graphics

-Basic Design

-Plant Material

-Perspective

-Landscape Ecology

-Landscape Construction

-Landscape Engineering

-Studio Courses

-Landscape Planning

-Computer-Aided Design Courses

-Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

-Professional Practice Knowledge

-Internship Application and Professional Experience

Our department's education-training plan is arranged to ensure the success of our students in their professional lives after graduation and to enhance their knowledge base, and it is revised according to accreditation criteria when deemed necessary in line with current conditions.

Our Laboratory Facilities

-Computer-Aided Design Laboratory

-Plant Material Application Areas Workshop

-Landscape Planning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory

-Design Studios

-Basic Design and Drawing Workshop

In addition to the theoretical and practical courses they have taken, students are provided with the opportunity to conduct presentation and modeling studies using computer programs. For detailed information about our laboratories, click here.

Internship

Landscape Architecture Department students are required to complete a total of 30 working days of compulsory summer internships at the end of their 3rd year in any of the public institutions and organizations, private sector, or plant production facilities such as nurseries, greenhouses, etc. There are various opportunities for students who will do internships abroad with programs like ERASMUS.

Graduate Work Areas

Landscape architects provide services in a wide perspective, from developing large-scale landscape plans to preparing management plans, from making national park plans to designing city squares and parks, from urban and suburban open green spaces, building gardens, mass housing environments, parks, children's playgrounds, sports complexes, conservation areas (national parks, biotopes, etc.), restoration of problematic areas (mines, landfill sites, etc.), preparing landscape restoration plans, contributing to ecosystem assessment reports, re-evaluating natural sites, to arranging recreation areas, botanical gardens, and touristic and historical sites.

Landscape architects operate with a broad vision on a global scale. In recent years, the influence of Landscape Architects has increased in globally important topics such as climate change, creating sustainable societies, water, housing policies, and combating hunger.

Graduate Profile

The knowledge, skills, and competencies we aim to impart to our graduates who complete their undergraduate education:

1-To have the knowledge and notion to gain and reflect current information to conduct planning, design, management activities, and research within the scope of social and environmental sustainability principles,

2-To have information on healthy living, resilience, climate change management, rural-urban development, and technology use in sustainable planning and design approaches,

3-To have knowledge and legislation about universal, theoretical, and professional ethical values in the field of Landscape Architecture,

4-To have knowledge about national and international agreements, professional principles, laws, regulations, and standards in the field of Landscape Architecture,

5-To have the ability to use the necessary materials and methods for the holistic perception, planning, design, and creation of management models of processes within the landscape in the context of spatial and temporal scales in the pressures and changes affecting the geography in which they are located,

6-To have the ability to develop alternative setups and solutions in accordance with theories and methods in planning and design processes specific to the field of Landscape Architecture,

7-To have the ability to act independently and take initiative, to determine goals collaboratively and inclusively by taking responsibility within a multidisciplinary team, to plan tasks, and to work participatively,

8-To have the ability to discuss ideas, express oneself, and develop oneself on topics specific to the field of Landscape Architecture,

9-To adopt the importance of lifelong learning and self-development, to follow national and international developments in the field of Landscape Architecture, and to use at least one foreign language and information-communication technologies to communicate,

10-To have the competence to make decisions with a fair and participatory consciousness by showing the necessary sensitivity in the protection of environmental, social, and cultural rights, natural environment, and cultural values,

11-To have the competence to prepare, implement, manage, and monitor projects related to the field of Landscape Architecture by considering their knowledge in landscape management, open and green space planning, green and blue infrastructure, restoration, management, conservation, and interpretation of cultural and natural landscapes,

12-To have the competence to produce projects within interdisciplinary collaborations in landscape planning, design, and material by integrating their knowledge of material and construction techniques with information technologies in landscape planning and design projects at different scales, with nursery, application, and office internship experience. 

Student Clubs

Student clubs operating at our university organize activities that contribute to the social and personal development of our students. Additionally, our department students can also become members of the TMMOB Chamber of Landscape Architects Student Club (PMO-Genç) and participate in the activities of the relevant chamber.

Location of the Higher Education Program's Affiliated Unit

The Department of Landscape Architecture conducts its educational activities at the İstiklal campus of Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University.

Address: Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture İstiklal Campus, 15200 BURDUR

Phone: +90 248 213 27 14

Fax: +90 248 213 27 04

Email: peyzajmimarligi@mehmetakif.edu.tr

Where Education and Training Will Be Conducted

The areas where the theoretical and practical courses in the Landscape Architecture Department's curriculum are conducted are listed in the table below.

Program Accreditations

Efforts are ongoing for the accreditation of undergraduate and graduate programs in our department.

Dormitory and Accommodation Facilities

Dormitories

In our province, accommodation services are provided to a total of 10,896 students in student dormitories located in the center and districts by the General Directorate of Credit and Dormitories, and to 1,196 students by Private Student Dormitories.

İstiklal Campus and City Center

Within our university's İstiklal Campus, there are 2 high-standard female student dormitories (Safahat Female Student Dormitory and Salda Female Student Dormitory) with a total capacity of 3,288 people and 2 male student dormitories (Asımın Nesli Male Student Dormitory and Fereli Sinan Efendi Male Student Dormitory) with a total capacity of 2,182 people affiliated with the General Directorate of Credit and Dormitories. 

Additionally, a female student dormitory (Burdur Female Student Dormitory) with a capacity of 1,608 people located in the city center of Burdur provides accommodation services to our students. Apart from the General Directorate of Credit and Dormitories in Burdur City Center, there are 7 Private Student Dormitories providing accommodation services to our students with a total capacity of 731 people.