The course offers cultural and technical basis of Landscape Architecture for reading landscapes and developing projects for their transformation and conservation.
Books
Bruel A.S., Delmar C. 2010, The territory as heritage, ICI Interface, Paris
Calcagno Maniglio A. 1983, Architettura del paesaggio. Evoluzione storica, Calderini, Bologna
Ferrara G. 1968-2017, L’Architettura del paesaggio italiano, Marsilio, Venezia
Ferrini F., Fini A., Amico albero. Ruoli e benefici del verde nelle nostre città, ETS, Pisa 2007
Holden R. & Liversedge J. 2014, Landscape Architecture: An Introduction, Laurence King Publishing, London
Lambertini A. 2013, Urban Beauty. Luoghi prossimi e pratiche di resistenza estetica, Editrice Compositori, Bologna
Murphy M. D. 2016, Landscape Architecture Theory. An Ecological Approach, Island Press, Washington
Paolinelli G. 2018, Progettare trasformazioni dei paesaggi nel mondo che cambia - Landscape Design in a Changing World, DIDApress, Firenze
Romani V. 1988, Il paesaggio dell’alto Garda Bresciano. Studio per un piano paesistico, Grafo, Brescia.
Sereni E. 1961-2010, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Bari, Laterza
Steiner F. 2016, Human Ecology. How Nature and Culture shape Our World, Island Press, Washington
Turri E. 1979-2014, Semiologia del paesaggio italiano, Marsilio, Venezia
Handbooks & Guide Lines
Trees&Design Action Group 2012, Trees in the Townscape. A guide for Decision Makers, T&DAG, UK
Trees&Design Action Group 2014, Trees in Hard Landscapes. A Guide for Delivery, T&DAG, UK
Trees&Design Action Group 2014, Tree Species Selection for Green Infrastructure: A Guide for Specifiers, T&DAG, UK
Magazines & Webzines
Architettura del paesaggio - www.aiapp.net - www.edifir.it
Topos - The international review of landscape architecture and urban design - toposmagazine.com
Archivi WEB Webzines
Landezine - landezine.com
WLA - World Landscape Architecture magazine - worldlandscapearchitect.com
Other cultural and technical references
European Landscape Convention - www.coe.int/en/web/landscape - https://rm.coe.int/1680080621
Sustainable Sites Initiative - www.sustainablesitesinitiative.org
Landscape Institute - LI - www.landscapeinstitute.org
Landscape Architecture Foundation - LAF - https://splash.lafoundation.org
International Federation of Landscape Architects - IFLA - www.iflaonline.org
European cluster of IFLA - IFLA Europe - iflaeurope.eu
Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio - AIAPP - membro IFLA - IFLA Europe - www.aiapp.net
Società Scientifica Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio - IASLA - www.iasla.it
Learning Objectives - Part B
The course aims to stimulate and support the student in the critical training of his own culture and technique of the architectural project. Teaching is aimed at acquiring the basis for the identification of landscapes and the degrees of design freedom that they express for the sustainability of their transformations.
Prerequisites - Part B
The course provides disciplinary teaching necessarily basic. Anyway we recommend to deal with this course after the exams of "Analisi del territorio e degli insediamenti" (first year), “Fondamenti di urbanistica” (second year) and of the “Laboratori di progettazione dell’architettura” 1 and 2.
Teaching Methods - Part B
The course uses complementary teaching methods: lectures, classroom workshops, field laboratories, landscape reading and design exercises, classroom reviews to support experiential learning.
The landscape reading and design exercise will consist of an A4 report of no less than 10 and no more than 20 pages and 6 tables A1, of which at least 3 are to read the landscape and the place of study. The low quantity of drawings and texts is aimed at elevating their quality through a reasonable amount of study time to devote to the conception and to the representation and communication. The exercise can be carried out individually or in groups of no more than three students. The theme and the project development requirements will be communicated by the teachers.
Further information - Part B
The student is invited to take care of his graphic abilities to represent the landscape and to elaborate and communicate the landscape project.
Type of Assessment - Part B
The above-mentioned reading and landscape design exercise is required to take the exam. During the exam the theoretical and practical skills achieved by the students will be evaluated. The examination is also individual in case of group exercises.
Course program - Part B
The course offers cultural and technical basis of Landscape Architecture for reading landscapes and developing projects for their transformation and conservation.
Looking at landscapes does not mean seeing landscapes; learning to see landscapes is necessary to inform projects that are designed to transform them and / or preserve them. The concepts of palimpsest, stratification, deep structure emerge and their basic dimensions of space and time take shape.
The deciphering of the palimpsest requires the study of the signs that it presents in its stratifications and the attribution to them of structural and functional meanings, according to a hierarchy that makes it possible to distinguish their belonging to the deep structure.
The signs are visible and legible indications of the materiality of the landscapes. Understanding their meanings requires the study of natural and / or cultural processes of their formations and evolutions. The study of material signs is also significant for the identification of visual relations and scenic connotations of landscapes those are immaterial qualifications. The course does not deal with the reading and design interpretation of other significant intangible identifications of landscapes that depend on peculiar relationships between their past and present cultural and induce a plurality of individual and social perceptions.
The reading of the landscape is poured into continuity in a process of signification aimed at the development of the design concept according to the prerequisites of consistency with the deep structure and with the resistant structures that refer to it. The exercise of continuity between reading and conception is aimed at making empirically understand the relevance of knowing to design and also of designing to know.
The course uses complementary teaching methods: lectures, classroom workshops, field laboratories, landscape reading and design exercises, classroom reviews to support experiential learning. The landscape reading and design exercise will consist of an A4 report of no less than 10 and no more than 20 pages and 6 tables A1, of which at least 3 are to read the landscape and the place of study. The low quantity of drawings and texts is aimed at elevating their quality through a reasonable amount of study time to devote to the conception and to the representation and communication. The exercise can be carried out individually or in groups of no more than three students. The theme and the project development requirements will be communicated by the teachers. The student is invited to take care of his graphic abilities to represent the landscape and to elaborate and communicate the landscape project.The above-mentioned reading and landscape design exercise is required to take the exam. During the exam the theoretical and practical skills achieved by the students will be evaluated. The examination is also individual in case of group exercises. The framework of the classroom and field activities is aimed at generating a parallelism between the teaching / learning process and the processing one. Both theoretical and applied teaching activities include explicit supports for understanding the meanings of the space / time dimensions and the transcalarity / ascalarity of landscapes and projects for their transformations, as well as the instrumental role and the correct use of numerical scales for the graphic representation. Specifically, the course includes the following chronological sequence of development of educational content:
session 1
introduction to the study programme and its exercitation - teaching arrangement and setting-up of the design teams - introduction to the landscape and the Landscape Architecture: space, time and their dimensions (basic frontal teaching)
session 2
landscape knowledge for designing changes - the landscape palimpsest as base for the project looking for sustainability - (basic frontal teaching)
session 3
working about a survey of data preliminary the field survey (classroom laboratory - unique session)
session 4
osservare e rilevare i caratteri del paesaggio (field survey - unique session)
session 5
detect the landscape structure and functioning la struttura e il funzionamento del paesaggio (classroom laboratory - first session)
session 6
detect the landscape structure and functioning la struttura e il funzionamento del paesaggio (classroom laboratory - second session)
session 7
detect the landscape structure and functioning la struttura e il funzionamento del paesaggio (classroom laboratory - third session)
session 8
detect the landscape structure and functioning la struttura e il funzionamento del paesaggio (classroom laboratory - fourth session)
session 9
detect the landscape structure and functioning la struttura e il funzionamento del paesaggio (classroom laboratory - fifth session)
session 10
compare the landscape features with the change demand involves them (classroom laboratory - first session)
session 11
compare the landscape features with the change demand involves them (classroom laboratory - second session)
session 12
develop a masterplan of urban change learning from the international experience (classroom laboratory - first session)
session 13
develop a masterplan of urban change learning from the international experience (classroom laboratory - second session)
session 14
develop a masterplan of urban change learning from the international experience (classroom laboratory - second session)
session 15
develop a masterplan of urban change learning from the international experience (classroom laboratory - second session)
session 16
develop a masterplan of urban change learning from the international experience (classroom laboratory - second session)
session 17
communicate the landscape congruence of the designed urban change - prepare a presentation of the project with simple and clear slides - (classroom laboratory - unique session)
session 18
teaching summary with projects discussion (collective review)