Landscape Architecture - Introduction

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Department of Urban Design

Synopsis:

This course is about obtaining knowledge through sharing and developing ideas regarding the history of garden art and landscape architecture and contemporary trends of landscape architecture worldwide. Students write essays, make site research in Prague (historical gardens, parks, public spaces) and make PowerPoint presentation concerning landscape architecture in their country.

Requirements:

Your interest about landscape architecture and ability to cooperate with your colleagues during site research and preparing powerpoint presentation. „Sharing“ is our motto.

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Excersises are managed as site research in Prague gardens, parks and public places. The result is powerpoint presentation or essey.

Study Objective:

When architects and landscape architects cooperate the results are usually better. For good cooperation understanding is important. So we try to open your mind and eyes for understanding what is landscape architecture about and for contemporary topics of landscape architecture.

Study materials:

Norberg - Schultz, Christian: Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Rizzoli, New York, 1980, 1984.

Geoffrey Jellicoe The Landscape of Man (1975)

...or any other book related to the history of garden art and landscape architecture, especially one focusing on your own country

Christopher Alexander The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life

Publication Date: 2002, Publisher: Center for Environmental Structure, ISBN: 0-9726529-1-4, Official Information: Available on Wikipedia The Nature of Order

https://www.iflaworld.com, www.TOPOS.de, www.asla.org, https://www.csla-aapc.ca, https://www.f-f-p.org

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

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