Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology Theory and Methods Seminar

Recommended Prerequisites

2st cicle.

Teaching Methods

Assessment: This is conducted through a written test that focuses on the subjects taught, the focus on distributed literature. Oral avalição UC is performed through a presentation to the jury assessment and students.

This course has the following jury composition: Program Director, tutor, and one of the coordinators of taught modules; The rating is given in A, B, C, D and F = Very Good, Good, Average, Enough and failed.

Learning Outcomes

The Theory Seminar and Methods in Landscape Architecture (stmap) consists of modules for the key topics of Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology and a module of research methods that introduces participants to techniques and research processes in this area.

At UC stmap has as its primary goal the training of the ability to present an idea on a topic of matter, through the delivery of a structured communication for publication that is also presented as oral communication, based on the materials presented during the semester, and applying the methodology of 6 Step method (Steinitz) in structuring the final outputs The ultimate goal of this seminar is to produce, by the participants, a written and detailed summary of their future dissertation.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The stmap is offered by organized modules in 6 themes that structure the academic and scientific professional field of Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology:

1. Theory and Critique of Landscape

2. Planning

3. Landscape Ecology

4. Gestao landscape

5. Design of Landscape Architecture

6. Landscape Legislation and policies.

A seventh module provides a deepening in research methods in Landscape Architecture and account for this in collaboration with domestic and foreign visiting professors.

Assessment Methods

Evaluation
The rating is given in A, B, C, D and F = Very Good, Good, Average, Enough and failed.: 100.0%

Bibliography

BELL, S., HERLIN, I. S., STILES, R. (Eds.), 2011, Exploring the boundaries of landscape architecture, Routledge CORNER, J. (Ed), 1999, Recovering landscape, Essays in contemporary landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press

DELUE, R.Z.; ELKINS, J. (Ed), 2008, Landscape theory, New York; Routledge

DEMING, M.E., SWAFFIELD, 2011, Landscape architecture research: Inquiry, strategy, design. John Wiley & Sons

GROTH, P., BRESSI, T.W. (Ed), 1997, Understanding ordinary landscapes, Yale University Press

MOORE, K., 2010, Overlooking the visual: Demystifying the art of design, Routledge

MURPHY, M.D., 2005, Landscape architecture theory: An evolving body of thought, Waveland Press, Inc

THOMPSON, I. (ed), 2009, Rethinking landscape: A critical reader, Routledge

STEENBERGEN, C., 2008, Composing Landscapes: Analysis, typology and experiments for design, Birkäuser Verlag AG