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Landscape Design Expression
Course Number. LA366 Instructor. Brad Goetz Schedule. Tuesday and Thursday 1:10 pm. - 4:50 pm. Prerequisite. LA 364, Design and Nature. . |
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Course Description. Idea, values, and process of landscape form applied to interactions of natural and cultural systems at the site and community scale; design competitions. Academic Objectives. 1. Research, analysis, and synthesis for natural and cultural landscapes expecting rapid human alteration. 2. Spatial analysis and ideation for visionary growth patterns addressing responsibility/stewardship (native landscapes, ecosystems, and vegetation) and character retention of landscapes. 3. Explore fundamental theories and methods of analytical and artistic decision making for landscape scale and site scale environments. 4. Learn methods for understanding the natural and cultural landscape through defensible, analytical assessment techniques, and technologies. 5. Focus on experiences that result in mastery of the sequential components of landscape analysis, design, and planning. 6. Theory and Representation in the form of writings, drawings and models as tools for validation of idea. Time Commitment of Student. Studio time, lectures, field trips, readings, individual and group projects.
COURSE OUTLINE: LANDSCAPE DESIGN EXPRESSION This course explores the formal theory and practice of landscape analysis, design, planning, and expression. Students focus on the application of drawing methods, photographic simulations, and model making to express and understand the spatial organization of human settlements at landscape and site scales. Students explore creative processes, establish and refine capabilities for the profession, and establish alternative visionary solutions for human dominated environments. I.
Aspects of Analysis, Design, and Planning Required References. Corner and MacLean, 1996. Taking Measures Across the American Landscape. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut. Forman, Olson and Dramstad, 1996. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning. Island Press, Washington DC. Moore, Mitchell and Turnbull, 1988. The Poetics of Gardens. Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Weilacher, Udo, 1999. Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture, Basel, Switzerland. Additional References (strongly suggested). Francis, Mark and Randolph T. Hester, Jr, 1991. The Meaning of Gardens. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. McHarg, Ian. 1971. Design with Nature. Wiley & Sons, New York. Sorkin Michael. 1996. Michael Sorkin Studio: Work in Progress Series. Monacelli Press, Incorporated. Several items to be supplied by the Prof. Web sites: http://home.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/fkl/ada/about/1_2.html http://www.thehighline.org/design/4teams4visions.html Evaluation Letter grades for projects will be granted based on the relative professional quality of the work completed as of the specified due dates. Project grades will reflect an evaluation based on two issues - theory and representation. A Distinctive
professional school quality (90%-100%) Letter
grades will be granted based on the relative professional quality
of the work completed as of the specified due dates. Grades
will be assigned based on the instructor's professional judgment,
which shall be final but may be appealed as described in the
current CSU General Catalog under "Academic Appeals." THE PROJECTS: Special Parks: Analysis and representation Observation: Landscape interpretation Inspiration: Connection as Artifact Method: An approach to landscape expression, a (restated) park for the 21st century. Method (tentative): Minimal [public] landscape. LA366
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