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Landscape Architecture's Themes and Concepts
Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:
Tema og konsepter i landskapsarkitekturen
Credits:
6
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 |
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| Not required |
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| 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. |