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Tenured Professor of Landscape Architecture (Head of the Chair)
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
+372 7313136
+372 73131365056106
5056106Chair professor Dr Simon Bell is the head of the department. He is British and has a long career in teaching, research, and practice. He has written a number of textbooks found in the libraries of many Landscape Architecture schools, including “Elements of Visual Deign in the Landscape” and he was lead editor of “Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and People.” He teaches on several courses and supervises theses.
Junior Research Fellow of Landscape Architecture
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
Mana Taheri Talesh, MSc, is Iranian and is the programme coordinator who also teaches on the bachelor thesis course and technogenic landscapes. She is studying how Iranian women use public spaces as her research topic.
Senior Lecturer of Landscape Architecture (bioeconomy and nature based solutions)
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
Joanna Storie, PhD, is British and she coordinates the master theses. She is interested in public participation in rural landscape management.
Lecturer of Landscape Architecture (historic sites and monuments)
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
Martti Veldi, PhD, is a landscape archaeologist who teaches on the course of cultural heritage protection and restoration. He is interested in how landscapes tell stories of people over long periods of time.
Lecturer of Landscape Architecture
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
+372 7313139
+372 7313139Peeter Vassiljev, MSc, teaches on the landscape design and construction course. He is interested in the use of virtual reality in landscape architecture, and he manages the department’s Virtual Landscape Theatre.
Chief Specialist in Landscape Architecture
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
+372 7313139
+372 73131395067931
5067931Toomas Muru, MSc, teaches planning and has an interest in forest landscape design.
Chief Specialist in Landscape Architecture
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
+372 7313139
+372 7313139Friedrich Kuhlmann, Dipl. Eng, is German and teaches contemporary landscape theory and supervises master design projects. He has an interest in energy landscapes and in the history of collectivisation during the Soviet era.
Chief Specialist in Landscape Analysis, Landscape Design and Presentation Techniques
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
+372 7313139
+372 7313139Jekaterina Balicka, MSc, is Latvian and teaches on the outdoor recreation planning and design course. She is interested in how people use various public and also abandoned spaces for health and wellbeing.
The Estonian University of Life Sciences has made every effort to maintain tuition fees at the lowest level possible. However, tuition fees may have to be modified periodically.
In 2025/2026, the tuition fee for landscape architecture studies is 3800 EUR per year. This sum covers the cost of courses at the EMU and does not include room and board. The deadlines for payment of the fees for the autumn and spring term are October 15 and March 1 respectively. Students must meet all financial obligations each semester. Students with delinquent accounts may not be permitted to enroll in a succeeding semester or to graduate.
There is 1 targeted scholarship for candidate not with Estonian citizenship and 2 for candidates with Ukrainian citizenship.
Please see more information about scholarships available for English-taught programmes herelink opens in new page.
Curriculum Manager:
Junior Research Fellow of Landscape Architecture
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Chair of Landscape Architecture
Contact for admission requirements: [email protected]