THEORY: 3,5 credits
The Man-made Landscape:
Unit 1: Geometry and biomorphism
1.1. Origins of the manmade Landscape
1.2. River cultures
1.3. The Sacred Landscapes
Unit 2: Cities and Patterns: The Mandala
2.1. Rites and Landscape
2.2. Porticos
2.3. Archetypes: Tapestry and Paradises
Unit 3: The Creation of the Villa
3.1. Precedents: Forests and Gods
3.2. The Cities of Hipodamus
3.3. The garden as a piece of art: The Topiary art
Unit 4: The Medieval Landscape
4.1. Magic and Nature
4.2. The “Hortus Conclusus”
4.3. The Muslim paradise: Andalusian Gardens
Unit 5: Architecture and Nature
5.1. The Architectonic Garden: Ideology and Art
5.2. Composition Principles: Models and Canon
5.3. The Italian Graden in Europe
Unit 6: The Geometric Universe:
6.1. Gardens and Perspective
6.2. The French School
6.3. Urban Implications
Unit 7: Oriental Gardens
7.1. Principles
7.2. East vs West
7.3. Japanese gardens Typologies
Unit 8: The Landscape Revolution
8.1. Precedents
8.2. The Picturesque
8.3. The “abstract landscape” concept
Unit 9: Modern Landscape:
9.1. Referents and Principles
9.2. The Landscape in the Modern Movement
9.3. Models: the “Ville Contemporaine”
9.4. The American school
Unit 10: XXth Century Landscapes:
10.1 The Landscape as an architectonical creation
10.2. The Masters: From Luis Barragan to Alvaro Siza
10.3. Iconographic Landscapes
Unit 11: City and Landscape:
11.1 The Big Urban Landscape Projects
11.2. After “La Villette”
11.3. The Japanese School
Unit 12: Landscape and Art:
12.1. Land-art
12.2 Urban art
12.3. Ciber Landscapes
PRACTICE: 3 credits
Major Project: Design of an Open Public Space
Phases:
· Site Visit
· Site Analysis
· Project Development
· Public Presentation
Complementary Lessons:
1. Landscape and Environment: elements and processes
a. The planting material: Introduction, Use principles, Species and use in Landscape Design
b. The non-living materials: Buildings, structures and equipments. The Use of water
2. The Open Urban Space:
a. Historic Precedents. Design Principles
b. Squares and Streets
c. Urban Parks