// Faculty
The MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences programme at TU Delft is underpinned by the renowned Dutch experience in architecture, spatial planning and the built environment professions and has an international orientation drawing on the multinational faculty of staff and students. The teaching approach borrows from the Dutch tradition of working in a multi-disciplinary way with students working in groups to create integrated solutions for the built environment. Urbanism has an international reputation for academic research, scholarship and education built on the Delft Approach to Urbanism. This approach is knowledge-based, design-oriented, and multiscale, in which landscape architecture, urban design and planning closely collaborate with engineers, data scientists, sociologists, geographers, and ecologists. Urbanism is seen as an interdisciplinary planning and design activity that focuses on the (re)creation of sustainable urban landscapes aimed toward climate adaptability, circularity, social equity, and ecologically inclusive urbanisation at all scales
// Meet the Dutch Practice
This is the office visit series where students get a first hand experience of the Dutch urbanism and landscape architecture practice. It allows for the students to expose themselves to the projects, design principles and the office atmospheres in the professional setup. This would help them prepare for their career decisions when they graduate. This also includes networking events were students are encouraged to meet with the offices and gather their cards.
// Track Urbanism
The Urbanism track draws on the Dutch tradition of combining urban design, landscape architecture and spatial planning. Students learn to integrate social, cultural, economic and political perspectives with the natural and man-made conditions of the site in order to shape and plan for more sustainable development. Established as a separate department in 1948, Urbanism at TU Delft has a long history of helping guide urban areas and regions.
What you will learn
Students learn to work on several scales, from regional strategic visions to neighbourhood redevelopment projects. Through these projects students respond to local trends such as congestion, mobility, urban renewal, shrinkage and densification and global trends such as globalization, the financial crisis, climate change, demographic trends and the energy transition.
The Urbanism Track aims to provide the prospective urban planner/designer with academic skills to analyse urban environments and urban developments in a critical way and to propose new solutions for an efficient, sustainable and livable organisation and management of the urban environment.
Read more at TU Delft – Urbanism
// Track Landscape Architecture
The Landscape Architecture track deals with design through all scales as an architectonic composition of natural and artificial materials. It is an independent design discipline related to Urbanism and Architecture. The landscape architect is a designer of outdoor space: from architectonic ensembles and urban spaces through to large-scale urban, rural and infrastructural landscapes. The landscape design process is a synthesis of art and technology in which consideration is given to the formal, material and cultural qualities of the site.
What you will learn
Students learn to see landscape as a contextual underlay for understanding, ordering and acting in spatial transformations. We emphasise the historical continuity of landscape as a process of time and flows.
Situated within the faculty of architecture and the built environment, this programme focuses on landscape architecture from the context of architecture and design, urbanism and the building sciences. All aspects of the discipline are covered: from planning to design practice, from theoretical considerations to practical exercises, and from research to policy-making. Developing core design skills on real sites is the centrepiece of the programme.
Read more at TU Delft – Landscape Architecture
// Graduation
For the academic year 2025–2026, significant updates have been made to the graduation process across the entire faculty, including the Urbanism and Landscape Architecture tracks.
Detailed information about these changes will be announced soon on the website.
For previous graduation projects, you can visit our Online Museum.
online museum
The online museum showcases the graduation works from TU Delft’s Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, and Geomatics tracks. These projects reflect the students’ engagement with the complexities of cities and landscapes through research, design, and planning.
Each work represents the culmination of years of learning, creativity, and dedication, demonstrating innovative and integrated approaches to spatial challenges around the world.
Click here to explore inspiring projects that embody the future of urban and landscape design.
// Evaluations
As a study association, POLIS supports the Department of Urbanism and Landscape architecture at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture Urbanism and Building Sciences to evaluate the education program. The aim is to facilitate a better education programme and learn from student experiences. POLIS lets students have a say about the education programs through quarterly reviews.It plays the role of a mediator between students and the department in keeping the level of education balanced and updated while continuously recommending suggestions for upgrades. This implies the level of education, the program, the organization, the schedule, the study-load and the quality of teaching. Besides we stay in contact with the teachers and organizing staff of the department to discuss the evaluation meetings and give feedback where needed.
