Landscape Heritage

Course guarantor:

Jan Hendrych, Jiří Kupka

Lecturer:

Jan Hendrych, Pavel Holubec, Jiří Kugl, Jiří Kupka

Tutor:

Jan Hendrych, Pavel Holubec, Jiří Kugl, Jiří Kupka

Supervisor:

Department of Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning

Synopsis:

Cultural, historical, and natural processes shape the human environment, our shared cultural landscape heritage. The course will reveal intrinsic values, functions, character, and appropriate conservation techniques and strategies for urban landscape heritage protection and conservation.

Requirements:

Active participation in lectures and excursions.

Syllabus of lectures:

Seminars and especially the relevant field excursions will take three hours weekly (the presence of students is also a part of the course evaluation). Students will independently work on their individually chosen subject of study in the form of a thematic essay that will be consulted during and submitted at the end of the semester.

Thematic areas of seminars and excursions:

1. Urban landscapes

2. Landscape urbanism, Urban park systems

3. Brownfields, rehabilitation, revitalization

4. Post-industrial landscapes, re-naturalization, natural processes

5. Landscape memory, landscape as a palimpsest, landscape narrative

6. Landscape character, assessment

7. Natural and rural landscapes, natural forces

8. Historic cultural landscapes, landscape archaeology

9. Landscape cultivation, care, and protection

10. Landscape aesthetics, perception of landscape structures and spaces

Syllabus of tutorials:

Independent practical research and critical study paper (essay) preparation differ from student to student, but generally, it could involve another two hours weekly.

Thematic areas of field excursions, a selection from localities:

The White Mountain plain and the Royal Game Preserve.

Former brickwork and restored homestead Kotlářka.

Hanspaulka, Šárka valley, Baba colony.

Geology, Biogeography, Hydrology, Landscape character, and Cultural and historical aspects.

Dejvice, Střešovice, Ořechovka - Urban structures and their transformations.

The system of green spaces and public greenery, Tree lines and avenues, Structured systems of linear vegetation.

Brownfield regeneration sites in Prague to be visited individually:

Žižkov freight station, Karlin Barracks - example of temporary use, exhibition, summer cinema, café, gallery

Pragovka - example of temporary use (already well-developed and about the most considerable area known), cafes, shows

Corso Karlín - a former boiler room, today a noble administrative building by Bofill

Machine House - former power station, today offices, studios, accessible courtyard

Forum Karlín - former CKD Dukla, an administrative and cultural center today, the courtyard and the café are accessible, the hall would be possible on agreement

DOX Gallery - a former machine factory, a successful gallery today

Study Objective:

Ability to understand - read cultural landscapes in the urban framework and to evaluate their character, cultural, historical, and aesthetic quality, and importance in the current time, to articulate proper conservation strategies.

Study materials:

Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Genius loci. Rizzoli, 1991.

Free PDF: genius-loci-towards-a-phenomenology-of-architecture-d86177309.html

ICOMOS-IFLA PRINCIPLES CONCERNING RURAL LANDSCAPES AS HERITAGE: https://www.icomos.org/images/DOCUMENTS/Charters/GA2017_6-3-1_RuralLandscapesPrinciples_EN_adopted-15122017.pdf

Goodchild Peter: Landscape Heritage, Biosphere Change, Climate Change, and Conservation. Heritage at Risk 2006/2007: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/heritage/article/view/19888

Cultural landscapes: https://whc.unesco.org/en/series/26

Council of Europe, The European Landscape Convention.

Florence, 20 October 2000:

www.coe.int/europeanlandscapeconvention

www.coe.int/conventioneuropeenedupaysage

Newton, T. Norman. Design on the Land. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1972.

Jellicoe, Geofrey, Susan. Landscape of Man, shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day. Thames and Hudson, London, 1975.

Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. Random House, New York, 1996.

Jan Gehl: Cities for People.

Philipp Oswalt, Klaus Overmeyer, and Philipp Misselwitz: Urban Catalyst.

Note:

Landscape Heritage

Further information:

https://uzemi.eu/pro-studenty/english-lessons/

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri	roomTH:A-835 10:35–13:05 (parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (budova FSv)

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri	roomTH:A-836 11:30–14:00 (parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (budova FSv)

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• N-PRI-CP prezenční navazující studium od 21/22 Financial Management (compulsory elective course)
• N-PRI-CP prezenční navazující studium od 21/22 Regional Studies (compulsory elective course)
• N-PRI-CP prezenční navazující studium od 21/22 Process Management (compulsory elective course)
• N-PRI-CP prezenční navazující studium od 21/22 Project Management (compulsory elective course)
• Process Management, prezenční - 22/23 (compulsory elective course)
• Financial management, AR 22/23, prezenční forma (compulsory elective course)
• Regional Studies, prezenční forma, AR 22/23 (compulsory elective course)
• Project management, prezenční forma, AR 2022/2023 (compulsory elective course)