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60 302 Landscape Architecture's Themes and Concepts
This course is mandatory for 1st year Master of Landscape Architecture students, open to other students at master's level.
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.
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.
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.
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 assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |