ArchiNews - Special Edition 2011 - ARQUITECTURA PAISAGISTA E ECOLOGIA URBANA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN ECOLOGY

The LINK Landscape Architecture and Ecology Doctoral Degree Program, a partnership between three universities (Lisbon’s Técnica and the universities of Oporto and Coimbra), was launched in 2009 with Lisbon hosting its first year before Coimbra took over in 2010 under the direction of Helena Freitas with Oporto running the 2011-2012 academic year supervised by Teresa Andresen.Sixteen doctorate holding professors form the program’s educational core combining to ensure the highest standards in landscape  architecture and urban ecology research. The international scope of the LINK teaching program and its staff reflects our intention to endow the program with a global reach, with English as the common language, while nurturing its roots in Southern Europe. As from 2008, the contribution made by by Professor Carl Steinitz, a researcher and  Professor at Harvard University throughout four decades, towards launching and running the program has underpinned the doctoral program’s approach to theoretical and practical teaching in the fieldsof landscape planning and design.