Last modified: 20. September 2022
Department of Garden Art and Landscape Design
Head of Department: Dr. Máté SÁROSPATAKI, PhD, associate professor
Three major themes of the academic curriculum are taught at our department. Courses in the history of garden art and heritage protection have a primary and special role in the foundations of the professions of landscape architecture and garden design. The historical periods of garden art – stylistic features, principles of spatial composition, and artists from ancient to contemporary times – are discussed through Hungarian and foreign examples, embedded in the natural, social and economic context of the given period. Our art teachers and landscape architect colleagues guide students in the field of graphic representation techniques, both freehand and digital. Last but not least, the third group of courses has technical and engineering aspects. Formal possibilities and limitations of the used material are highlighted by the engineering aspect. The relationship between form and material is revealed by the technical aspect, which gives a common understanding in landscape architecture and landscape design.
We attach great importance to the formation of a professional approach with an emphasis on the research, renewal, maintenance, management and protection of historical values (gardens, parks, squares, green spaces of historical importance), as well as artistic and technical principles. Our staff at the department combine theoretical foundations with practical teaching. Our teachers take part in all levels of education at the institute, bachelor, master and doctoral alike.
