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Landscape Architecture's Themes and Concepts

Credits: 
6
Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål: 
Tema og konsepter i landskapsarkitekturen
Course code: 
60 302
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2016 Autumn
Language of instruction: 
Norwegian / English
Required prerequisite knowledge

This course is mandatory for 1st year Master of Landscape Architecture students, open to other students that have passed the foundation level.

Course content

Norwegian Landscape Architecture has lately produced a range of projects with high quality in a growing discipline and profession. With its focus on geography, the history of landscape architecture, paradigm shift, people’s health the subject has grown into an important supporting discipline for urbanism’s latest design practices. Students will be introduced to landscape architecture's broad scope. As well as how its methods and theories the past years have been influencing urbanism’s discourse and design practices, through site and office visits in Oslo.

Learning outcome

After passed course the student shall understand how ecological, infrastructural factors shape the urban landscape, and have broad knowledge of landscape architecture’ s themes and concepts.

Working and learning activities

The course offers both lectures and a seminar. Lectures will focus on decisive moments within the landscape architectural discourse: analysis, project development, design processes, green/ blue infrastructure systems, blue green systems, from road to street

7 lectures Tuesday mornings 9:30-11:00 from August to October:
• Lecture 1: 23.8. Rainer Stange: «Water is the logic of the landscape»- and visit Bjerkedalen park
• Lecture 2: 30.8 Jeppe Aalgaard Andersen: «City Paving»
• Lecture 3: 6.9. Alf Haukeland: «St. Olavs Hospital»
• Lecture 4: 13.9. Rainer Stange: «Urban Trees» and visit Dronning Eufemias gate and Kong Håkon den 5.s gate
• Lecture 5: 20.9 Jeppe Aalgaard Andersen: «It’s all about Water»
• Lecture 6: 26.9 Alf Haukeland: «Tendencies in Landscape Architecture»
• Lecture 7: 4.10 Rainer Stange: «Rails»

3 lectures Thursday evenings 18:00-20:00 in October and November with theme: Scandinavian landscape architecture
• Lecture 8: 15.10. 13.10. Thorbjörn Andersson, Sweco «Works», Sweden
• Lecture 9: 27.10. Rikke Juul Gram, Schønherr, «Works», Denmark
• Lecture 10: 10.11. Inge Dahlman, Landskapsfabrikken, «Works», Norway

Curriculum

Obligatorisk lesning:

Boulevard Book. History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards Allan Jacobs Allan Jacobs. Elizabeth MacDonald, Yodan Rofe. The MIT Press August 2003

The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Waterman, Tim. AVA Publishing, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009

 Digital Landscape Architecture Now. Amoroso, N. & Hargreaves, G.

Thames and Hudson 2012

 

Foreslått lesning:

Great Streets. August 1995 The MIT Press August 1995

Des arbres dans la ville.  Caroline Mollie, Actes Sud & Val'hor, Paris, 2009

Promenades de Paris. Adolphe Alphonse, Paris, 1867-73, 2002

Blågrønn hovedstad. Oslo Elveforum, Oslo, 2010

Design With Nature . McHarg, Ian. 1971,  Garden City: Natural History Press.

The Granite Garden . Spirn, Anne Whiston, New York, Basic Book, Inc., 1984.

CENTER,  Volume 14: On Landscape Urbanism (Paperback) The Center for American Architecture and Design; 1st edition (April 1, 2007)

Landscape Urbanism  - Kerb 15 (Paperback) RMIT Press 2007

The Recovering of Landscape . Corner, ed. 1999. Princeton Architectural Press.

The Landscape Approach . Lassus, Bernard. 1998, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Mappings . Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), 1999, London

Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture . Weiss, Allen S., 1989, New York : Princeton Architectural Press

Theory in Landscape Architecture . Swaffield 2002 University of Pennsylvania Press

The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Charles Waldheim. Princeton Architectural Press; 2006

Territories: From Landscape to City . Agence Ter  and Lisa Diedrich  (Editor). 2008, Birkhäuser Basel

Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne

by E. Kugler  (Translator), James Corner  (Foreword), Gilles A. Tiberghien (Contributor)

2008, Birkhäuser Basel

The New Economy of Nature. Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison, Island Press, 2003

Politics of Nature, Bruno Latour and Catherine Porter. Harvard University Press, 2004

Living Systems. Margolis/ Robinson, 2007. Built examples,

innovative materials and technologies in landscape architecture praxis.

Magazines:
Daidalos

JOLA  (Journal of Landscape Architecture)

New geographies

‘ scape: The International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

Topos: European Landscape Magazine

Also, you might want to check out following thematic websites on the internet:

LE: NOTRE www.le-notre.org

LE:NOTRE°Mundus  Le Notre’s non- European partners network

ECLAS The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools

ELASA - European Landscape Architecture Students Association

NLA- Norwegian Landscape Architects (Students) Association

IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects

European Urban Landscape Partnership: the planning and management of the urban landscape

Presence required
Not required
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Presence required:Not required
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignment--Innlevering
Innlevering av individuelle oppgaver på en stående A4-side fredag etter hver forelesning, både de 7 formiddagsforesningene og de 3 kveldsforelesningene. A4-sida skal inneholde en tegning med en tekst, men ingenting hentet fra internet.
Seminar 14.-18. november = fordypningsuke og avslutning for fordypningskurs ved Giambattista Zaccariotto. 3 utvalgte temaer fra høstens produksjon skal bearbeides og bedømt av en jury fredag den 25. november.
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Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:-
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Comment:Innlevering
Innlevering av individuelle oppgaver på en stående A4-side fredag etter hver forelesning, både de 7 formiddagsforesningene og de 3 kveldsforelesningene. A4-sida skal inneholde en tegning med en tekst, men ingenting hentet fra internet.
Seminar 14.-18. november = fordypningsuke og avslutning for fordypningskurs ved Giambattista Zaccariotto. 3 utvalgte temaer fra høstens produksjon skal bearbeides og bedømt av en jury fredag den 25. november.