Landscape Urbanism

Recommended Prerequisites

General knowledge in architecture, urban design, landscape and open-air public space design.

Teaching Methods

Illustrated presentation, discussion, evaluation of visual material, critical review of literature. A short version of all lectures is going to be filmed, transcribed and uploaded to the platform along its relevant syllabus and bibliography. The full version of the lecture is going to be presented and discussed face to face in the classroom and is going to be followed by a critical review of literature. Additionally on-site teaching in archaeological sites will take place by different technicians and institutions responsible for each space under study.

Learning Outcomes

a) Appreciation of, and ability to apply, theories concerning the analysis of ‘cultural landscape’ as a total monumental entity, associating natural qualities of landscape importance with historic elements.

b) Correlation of the notion of ‘cultural landscape’ with ‘landscape urbanism’, analyzing urban landscape as the general condition of space, where human culture and man-made or natural substratum are merged.

c) Analysis of the common conceptual field, associating the notions of ‘cultural land-scape’, ‘landscape urbanism’, ‘social or cultural ecology’ and ‘cultural or political sustainability’; the latter associated with the preservation of urban history and its political significance.

d) Implementation of the above described notions in cases studies concerning the three countries involved.

e) Appreciation of, and ability to apply, methods of design intervention concerning ‘landscape urbanism’.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

a) To provide students with the necessary theoretical knowledge and technical skills for analysing, documenting and interpreting urban landscape, considered as the general landscape field in which archaeological sites belong; or in the reverse sence to analyse archeological sites in their correlation to their surrounding built and natural urban environment.

b) To familiarize teh students with ‘landscape urbanism’ interventions.

c) To familiarize them with the urban landscape of Athens, as a built envi-ronment of manmade elements, contemporary or historical, associated to their natural context. In this sense natural landscape substratum could be regerded as an important ‘stractural’ part of the city history, while urban landscape interventions could be associated with natural environmenetal sustainability, as well as with the cultural ‘sustainability’ of the city, the preservation of its historical past.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Short essay: 100.0%

Bibliography

 

Almy D., Benedikt M. ed. (2007): “On Landscape Urbanism”, in Center 14. Austin: CAAD Pub-lications.

Connolly P. (2004): “Embracing Openness: Making Landscape Urbanism” – “Landscape Ar-chitectural: Part 2”, in The Mesh Book: Landscape/Infrastructure, Raxworthy J., Blood J. ed. Melbourne: RMIT University Press, pp. 200-219.

Corner J. (1999): Recovering Landscape - Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Goethe W. G. (2003): Faust, Part II. Los Angeles: Poetry in Translation.

Kapelos G. (1994). Interpretations of Nature: Contemporary Canadian Architecture, Land-scape and Urbanism. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

Kerb 15 - Landscape Urbanism (2007). Melbourne: RMIT Press.

Moran E. F. (2011): People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Mostafavi M., Najle C. ed. (2003): Landscape Urbanism - A Manual for the Machinic Land-scape. London: Architectural Association.