Welcome
Architecture and Landscape Architecture are disciplines dedicated to the art of building in its broadest sense. This encompasses the design of buildings, the spaces between them, as well as wider natural and urban environments. This definition implies a wide range of conditions: from the most intimate spaces of a dwelling, to complex public infrastructures and open spaces, to the heterogenous fabric of a city and wider territorial conditions.
This scope brings architecture and landscape architecture into contact with other
disciplines concerned with buildings, cities and open spaces, such as engineering,
construction, urban planning, environmental science, art history, and sociology.
Architecture and Landscape Architecture necessarily engage with all of these neighbouring disciplines, but they are distinctive for their commitment to design as their specialist skill and knowledge base. Design is a mode of thinking and practice that combines historical and environmental knowledges, logical analysis and creativity. The Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), treasures the distinctiveness of design, and seeks to put it to work in critical, responsible, and
creative ways in the diverse conditions of contemporary metropolitan life.
In this work ESALA is nourished and supported by Edinburgh itself, a city widely
acclaimed as one of the most beautiful in the world.
Architecture in Edinburgh Leads in the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise)
