Architecture VII: Landscape Architecture

Abstract

Introduction of basic knowledge in garden and landscape history. Development of basic questions and positions in landscape architecture.

Objective

Introduction of basic knowledge in garden and landscape history. Development of basic questions and positions in landscape architecture.

Content

This course presents specific viewpoints in history of gardens and landscape design. It developes basic conditions and contemporary questions and positions in landscape architecture. With respect to an evolving societal relationsship to nature an overview/ a portrait marking the evolution of garden and landscape desing is drawn from antiquity to the present. Different epochs and aspects of landscape architecture are explained through a selection of exemplary works. Lectures: 28.10.2005 Roots. Der Ursprung des Gartens, die hydraulischen Zivilisationen. (Ch. Girot) 04.11.2005 Idylle und Arkadien I. Die Landschaft der Griechen und Römer. (Ch. Girot) 11.11.2005 Orient und Okzident. Gärten des Mittelalters. (A. Bucher) 18.11.2005 Terza Natura. Renaissancegärten in Eurpa. (A. Freytag) 25.11.2005 Die Liebe zur Geometrie. Barockgärten in Europa. (Ch. Girot) 02.12.2005 -Seminarwoche- 09.12.2005 Zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik. Der Landschaftsgarten. (J. Stoffler) 16.12.2005 Parks und Promenaden. Bürgergärten und öffentliches Stadtgrün im 19. Jh.(Ch. Girot) 23.12.2005 Reformideen, Volksparks und Gartenstädte. (A. Bucher) 13.01.2006 Ausblick: Zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur. (Ch. Girot) 20. und 27.01.2006 Entfällt.

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