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60 302 Themes and Concepts in Landscape Architecture
The course is mandatory for master students in Landscape Architecture, and open for students in Architecture.
The course will study a selection of landscape architecture projects from the late 19th century and onwards.
We will discuss the spatial qualities of these projects and the link between spatial qualities, and the intellectual context in which projects are developed. By redrawing, 3D-modelling, reading, and writing, we will investigate them in order to understand how they have been created through design choices and the evolution of design techniques. This explorative work will allow us to also determine how they relate to and learn from past work and contribute to renew traditions, as well as how projects in themselves are a form of knowledge and derive into principles.
The projects will be placed in a historical and theoretical context. We will also explore the role they play in the dynamic interplay between design and theoretical and historical interpretation, aiming to derive landscape design positions for the present.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of the spatial qualities of a representative selection of landscape architecture projects designed since the late 19th century until today.
- Knowledge of the dominant design history and theory that influenced and frames the development of a selection of projects from the 19th century until today.
- Knowledge on the design principles and techniques that were employed at the time the selected study projects were designed and built.
- Knowledge about cases in which certain projects derive into principles and design theories.
Skills:
- Capacity to read and synthesize texts related to the landscape and architecture disciplines and use it as part of precedent study research.
- Capacity to reconstruct and model the main spatial qualities of a landscape architecture precedent.
- Capacity to express the spatial qualities of landscape architecture projects through conventional representaton methods.
- Capacity to conduct historical research through designer’s methods, such as drawing iteration and diagramming.
General competence:
The history of landscape architecture through the study of precedents.
The course will alternate between sessions where projects are discussed and sessions where projects are re-drawn and re-modelled. The discussions will be accompanied of lectures and reading workshops.
Re-drawing and re- modelling will be partially done during the elective time and independent work. The work includes visual representations and text.
Students are expected to be at class every Tuesday.
There might be some outdoor teaching activities, always within the vicinity of Oslo.
Course literature will be available in Leganto.
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe) | - | Pass / fail | Each student works with study precedents during the whole semester individually or in couples. The projects will be assigned at the start of the course. Assessment folder: The student will make an assessment folder for each project that will be delivered following several stages during the semester. The elements included in the folder will be stated at the start of the course. Presentation: Oral and/or visual presentation of the work carried out during the semester. |