Perception in Landscape Architecture

Abstract

The basis of any landscape design is the perception and the understanding of landscape design qualities. Small exercises focus on the specific scales and processes that form a landscape as well as on their perception and representation. Video is used as a tool accompanying different conventions of seeing. Different theoretical approaches in design will be researched and discussed.

Objective

The basis of any landscape design is the perception and the understanding of landscape design qualities. Small exercises focus on the specific scales and processes that form a landscape as well as on their perception and representation. Video is used as a tool accompanying different conventions of seeing. Different theoretical approaches in design will be researched and discussed.

Content

Wintersemester elective course landscape architecture Landscape and Video In the next semester 05/06 we will investigate the urban landscape between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle. The region is stamped by the watch factory’s growth of the 19th century and both cities whose centers lie only 7 km apart, form a small agglomeration. The region’s apparitional oblivion is changing through 2 different influences: it’s candidature for the uno’s world heritage list and secondly and through increasing establishing of modern services and other trades. During 3 exercises we will work on instrumentaries to apprehend and perceive space in this changing landscape. And for the diploma of the course the students will produce a short video essay of the site during sommer break. 21.10.05 15:00-19:00 Final Crit SS05 «Teotihuacan» Gäste: Sylvia Gmür, Architect, Basel Martin Josephy, Architect, Editor, (Barragan Foundation), Basel Luc Schaedler, Filmmaker («Angry Monk», Release Herbst 05), Zürich HIL H Plaza 27.10.05 13:00-14:00 Introduction elective course landscape architectur video - HIL H Plaza 03.11.05 08:00-20:00 jointly daytrip to La Chaux-de-Fonds Introduction in camera and key organisation on train. issuances of exercise 1 on site Prof.Christophe Girot, Susanne Hofer 10.11.05 13:00 – 15:00 Lecture «Walkscapes», Francesco Careri (Archi. Rom, Stalker and Oservatorio Normade) HIL H Plaza 17.11.05 13:00-15:00 MiniCrit, Discussion exercise 1 joint by MAS-Students Prof. Girot, Parish, Stollmann, Hofer – HIL H Plaza issuances of exercise 2 Hofer – HIL Schnittraum 24.11.05 13:00-14:00 Lecture: «Representation» Prof. Ch. Waldheim (Arch., Toronto) HIL H Plaza 14:00-15:00 Introduction into editing (application: Final Cut Pro) Hofer – editing room 01.12.05 ETH Week: Field Trips 08.12.05 13:00-14:00 Lecture: "Traces", Annemarie Bucher (arts historian, Zürich) HIL H Plaza 15.11.05 13:00-15:00 MiniCrit, Discussion exercise 2 joint by MAS-Students Parish, Stollmann, Hofer – HIL H Plaza issuances of exercise 3 12.01.06 13:00-15:00 Lecture “Szenographie”, Prof. Christophe Girot - HIL H Plaza 26.01.06 13:00-17:00 Semester’s Final Crit exercise 3 joint by MAS-Students Parish, Stollmann, Hofer – HIL H Plaza issuances of diploma work 10.02.06 End of Semester 30.03.06 13:00 – 17:00 Final Critique Elective Couse of Diploma Work ca. 15:00

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