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60 302 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: 
2017 Autumn
Assessment semester: 
2017 Autumn
Language of instruction: 
Norwegian / English
Maximum number of students: 
20
Required prerequisite knowledge

This course is mandatory for 1st year Master of Landscape Architecture students, open to other students at master's 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 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 more and more important due to increasing problems in the world. Landscape architecture has the tools to solve many of these problems. The students will follow landscape architecture2discourse 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: 22.8. Rainer Stange: «Water is the logic of the landscape»-  and visit Bjerkedalen park
  • Lecture 2: 29.8 Jeppe Aalgaard Andersen: «City Paving»  
  • Lecture 3: 5.9. Luis Callejas: «Images of many natures»
  • Lecture 4: 12.9. Rainer Stange: «Urban Trees» and visit Dronning Eufemias gate and Kong Håkon den 5.s gate
  • Lecture 5: 19.9 Jeppe Aalgaard Andersen: «It’s all about Water»
  • Lecture 6: 25.9 26.9 Alf Haukeland: «St. Olavs Hospital»
  • Lecture 7: 3.10 Rainer Stange:  «Rails»

3 lectures Thursday evenings 18:00-20:00 in October and November with theme: Scandinavian landscape architecture

  • Lecture 8: 12.10. Axel Sømme, CUBUS, «Works” Bergen
  • Lecture 9: 26.10. Mattias Gustafsson, urbio: «The red-green-blue cityscape». Stockholm
  • Lecture 10: 9.11. Marianne Levinsen, København: «Det man ikke ser».

Assignment

The assignment for the course includes the INDIVIDUAL student production of a single A4 after every lecture (of both ‘in-house’ lectures and those of guests). The A4 page needs to contain an image + caption (The image needs to be self-produced from the fieldwork/ lecture (sketch/ photograph, collage/ manipulation of image – but NOTHING FROM THE INTERNET). After last lecture the 10 assignments should be produced as one documents and handed in.

Seminar 6th – 12th  November = intensive week for elective course (and end of course) by Giambattista Zaccariotto.

Curriculum

Mandatory Reading

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

 

Suggested Reading:

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

During the individual coaching sessions each student will be given texts and or litterature related to the topic of their assignment

Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)-Pass / fail The assignment for the course includes the INDIVIDUAL student production of a single A4 after every lecture (of both ‘in-house’ lectures and those of guests). The A4 page needs to contain an image + caption (The image needs to be self-produced from the fieldwork/ lecture (sketch/ photograph, collage/ manipulation of image – but NOTHING FROM THE INTERNET). After last lecture the 10 assignments should be produced as one documents and handed in on Friday 23th of November.
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:-
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment: The assignment for the course includes the INDIVIDUAL student production of a single A4 after every lecture (of both ‘in-house’ lectures and those of guests). The A4 page needs to contain an image + caption (The image needs to be self-produced from the fieldwork/ lecture (sketch/ photograph, collage/ manipulation of image – but NOTHING FROM THE INTERNET). After last lecture the 10 assignments should be produced as one documents and handed in on Friday 23th of November.