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Landscape Architecture
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
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Course Objectives
Qualifying educational goals will tend to implement students' judgment, forcing them to make cultural choices in full harmony with their abilities and interests. This path will enable them to center an intellectual autonomy within a level scientific community such as the university.
The specific goals are to equip students with the ability to observe urban space, the empty space of the landscape and the objects that populate it. To understand how to represent space and ideas for urban landscape projects. To equip them with both theoretical and practical training tools related to landscape architecture and thus to landscape design.
Course Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of drawing and territorial representation is required.
For prerequisites, please refer to Art. 19 of the Academic Regulations.
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Teaching Methods
The students are expected to design an urban park, with the 80% of the area dedicated to reforestation and 20% dedicated to facilities – sports, recreational areas, cultural events. Required
- Model of study;
- Analysis of the site;
- Site plan;
- Systems drawings;
- N. 2 sections in 1:50 scale;
- Perspective and/or axonometric drawings.
Students will gain an understanding of the state of the discipline of landscape design through direct examples and by deepening complex reasoning across disciplines. Knowledge and understanding skills;
From this knowledge they will have to construct plausible scenarios for new ways of inhabiting the urban environment and its ecological, cultural and resilience needs;
Students will be expected to independently produce ideas that will be collectively analyzed and then methodologically addressed to build the tools needed to think about complex projects;
Each student should communicate his or her progress by adapting graphic representations with specific and timely references and citations;
By the end of the course, students should have completed a course of instruction that leads them to construct ideas in relation to their cultural choices and personal interests, so that they can elaborate an active, agile and modern knowledge path.
Assessment Methods
Pre-examination verification on the project envisaged by the course, through the elaboration of specific layouts representing the project.
(cf. art.14 teaching regulations/attendance requirement)
Mode of conducting the examination: Theory/Practice
Texts
2020. Morabito V., The City of Imagination, ORO Edition, USA.
2020. Morabito V., Drawings vs. Photos in the representation of landscape architecture. In Ri-Vista n. 02.2020, University of Florence Press. Florence, Italy.
Hunt J. D., Sette lezioni sul Paesaggio. Liberia.
2019. Corner J., Taking measures across American Landscape. Yale University Press.
1968. McHarg I., Design with Nature.
2014. D’Angelo P., Filosofia del Paesaggio. Quodlibet
2005. Panzini F., Progettare la natura. Architettura del paesaggio e dei giardini dalle origini all’epoca contemporanea. Zanichelli
Contents
Landscape design is a course that falls within the broader field of landscape architecture. In the landscape design course, we will address urgent and widely shared issues such as climate change, ecology, resilience, social policies, and cultural inclusion, considering the landscape not only from a scientific perspective but also as a generator of spatial and human relationships. The study will concern both consolidated and non-consolidated urban areas, urban fringes, phenomena of territorial dispersion, urban agriculture, and marginal agriculture.
Students will also be introduced to the origins of the discipline and to its history and evolution, eventually analyzing several contemporary case studies in landscape architecture.
Starting from an understanding of the discipline of landscape architecture, the course aims to create the cultural and methodological conditions necessary to build connections with architecture, ecology, and art.
Throughout the semester, students will be stimulated through open discussions on modern and contemporary architectural and landscape architectural projects, where the creative and imaginative matrix is clearly expressed. We will explore how some of these projects—such as New York’s Central Park—were precursors of the increasingly urgent need to integrate design and ecology, and to connect design with resilience to climate change and its consequences. We will also examine how art has always played a prominent role in the culture of urban systems, in food production, and in the creation of places.
Students are expected to be highly active in presenting projects, using freehand drawings, precise reflections, and constructive reasoning.
Students will work on a trekking route known as Tracciolino. Along this path, they will be required to design landscape architecture elements capable of integrating with the surrounding environment and giving the route a new identity.