Elements of Landscape Architecture culture and technique are proposed with regard to design of options for sustainability. The applied teaching refers to Landscape Analysis and Diagnosis bases studying factors and processes of landscapes changes.
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European Landscape Convention www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/Conventions/Landscape/default_en.asp
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AIAPP - Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio - membro IFLA - IFLA Europe http://www.aiapp.net
Learning Objectives
The main goal of the course is to introduce students in the study of culture and technique of Landscape Design.
The applied teaching intends to develop skills of design interpretation of relationships between knowledge, choices, technical representation, communication.
Prerequisites
Theoretical and applied teaching is based on all the scientific and technical knowledge that the student has acquired through the teachings of the first year of the degree course.
Teaching Methods
The course uses two complementary teaching methods: lectures, to support the theoretical study, and design reviews, to support the applied study.
Further information
The student has to develop his skills of graphic elaboration of the landscape and of the landscape project. The use of computer technology GIS and CAD is recommended, but not required for the specific didactic purposes.
Type of Assessment
An intermediate theoretical test allows to verify the preparation at the end of the lessons and to orient the study.
The exam includes a theoretical discussion and a design practice to be developed during the study.
The exam is individual. The practice can be processed in groups of three students at most and is supported by periodic reviews in which students are called upon to deal with the teachers on the states of progress of their projects.
Course program
Elements of Landscape Architecture culture and technique are proposed with regard to design of options for sustainability. The applied teaching refers to Landscape Analysis and Diagnosis bases studying factors and processes of landscapes changes.
The knowledge of the thought and works of authors on the international scene is an important base in the study of the culture of the project. So, the central and most conspicuous part of lectures proposes thematic discussions about meaningful experiences in North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal and other European and non-European countries.
The programme tries to develop knowledges about two complementary main qualities of the project: "landscape based" and "sustainable". So an integrated concept of water+soil+plant sensitive design is the main topic of study.
The course uses two complementary teaching methods: lectures, to support the theoretical study, and design reviews, to support the applied study.
The lectures are planned with the following chronological and thematic framework (acronyms T00 point the shared files proposed as basic references of the lectures):
1 Programme presentation (T01)
Cultural and technical bases of the Landscape Architecture project - 1st part (T02)
2 Cultural and technical bases of the Landscape Architecture project - 2nd part (T03)
Presentation of the design practice (T04)
3 Soil and morphology (T05:T13a)
4 Water and hydrology (T05:T13a)
5 Trees and micro-climate conditioning (T05:T13a)
6 Plants and spatial identity (T05:T13a)
7 Accessibility and social inclusion (T05:T13a)
8 Technologies and economy of executing and management (T05:T13b)
9 Intermediate theoretical test preliminary to the final examination (T14)
10 Workshop: starting concepts for the design practices (T15)
The thematic lectures (lec. 3 : lec. 8) have a three parts framework: references to Landscape Architecture works in the world; references to Landscape Design studies from previous years; references to characters and phenomena of the landscape under study in the present year design practices.
In the periodical reviews, students are called upon to deal with the teachers about the progress steps of the projects. In order to foster a study relationship that simulates the normal activities of a project team, the design practices deal with a real situation by a partnership with the DIDA Landscape Design Lab in the context of an agreement with the Municipality of Barberino del Mugello (Tuscany).