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051-0626-06L 2 Credits

Exercises in Landscape Architecture

Wahrnehmung in der Landschaftsarchitektur

Lecturers & Examiners: Prof. em. Christophe Girot

VVZ CR n/a

Last Updated: 2026-02-05 15:10:39

Abstract

Video is used as an instrument to educate the subjective perception. The analysis of visual conventions are the basis for a precise visualization of landscape architectural design. The produced videos reflect these conventions and their influence on design work.

Objective

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Content

During this course we will be testing the possibilities of video in representing contemporary perceptions, images and projections of urban and rural spaces. We will be particularly interested in involving spatial/temporal, aesthetic and social contexts in the process of making a video of the site. The given territory is a fragment of suburban landscape that presents characteristical landscape structures. It is an area within and around the Hard-Forest - a forest on a small hill - where motorway, aeroplanes, trains, industry, agriculture, living space and service industry are all interwoven. Surrounded by “Glatt-City” the forest takes on different meanings. We see the site as a test field to be investigated in a bigger frame of reference, as it reacts to its human adoption and the changes of the times. On this site we will conduct 3 weekly exercises looking at perception of the space and landscape and achieve tools to represent them. 2 additional inputs including the basics of editing will lead to the topics for the elective course's final video, a small video essay about the site which will be elaborated during the summer break.

Resources

Lecture Notes

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