Landscape architects work for planning consultancies, for companies in the gardening and landscape industry, for government agencies and for local governments in public works and parks departments, water authorities or and nature conservation bodies.

Their work encompasses a wide range of activities, including the following:

• Landscaping  tasks for urban land use; planning and sectoral planning
• Urban planning and village redevelopment planning
• Project planning and design
• Environmental planning
• Planning and programmes for leisure parks and large-scale landscape remediation
• Green and open space planning as part of urban land use planning
• Planning for national parks, biosphere and nature reserves, as well as landscape protection areas
   

Generic competencies

Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by the UPC are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.

Specific competences

• Ability to undertake professional jobs in the landscape field in which strategic decisions have to be made. In particular, ability to undertake tasks that require a high capacity to analyse and resolve complex landscape and spatial problems.
• Ability to carry out research and knowledge transfer in the professional sector.
• Ability to begin an academic career in the field of research and specifically to begin a doctorate in an international-level landscape programme.

Specific skills

• Ability to design and manage the landscape.
• Ability to advise on plans, projects and policies linked to the field of landscape intervention.