Learning objectives
• Improving the knowledge of landscape reading and interpretation;
• Approaching to the work of the main landscape architects of the last century;
• Getting the tools for planning an ecological network on an urban scale;
• Getting the tools for designing an open space at the district scale;
Course unit content
The aim of the course is giving the students the right tools for reading, interpreting and understanding the landscape at different scales, in a strong consequentiality between the analytical and design phases. it is a course of landscape architecture that combines the contents of the urban planning courses.
Full programme
The main lessons will cover:
• What is "Landscape";
• Main methodologies for reading and interpreting the landscape at various scales;
• Ecological netwotks;
• The design of open spaces in the urban context;
• Urban comfort;
Bibliography
CULLEN GORDON, Townscape, The Architectural press, Londra 1961.
ID., The concise Townscape, The Architectural Press, Londra 1971.
TURRI EUGENIO, La conoscenza del territorio, Marsilio, Venezia, 2002.
NORBERG-SCHULTZ CHRISTIAN, Genius Loci, Electa, Milano 1979.
LYNCH KEVIN, The image of the city, MIT, Boston, 1960.
SCAZZOSI LIONELLA (a cura di), Leggere il Paesaggio, Gangemi 2002.
GEHL JAN, Cities for people, Island Press, Wahington, 2010.
Assessment methods and criteria
In the first part of the course each student will face the critical reading of a text in the bibliography, knowledge of which will be verified. Throughout the course, individual or group exercises will be assigned which will be gradually verified. At the end of the course, each working group will develop a specific project on an open space, which will flow into the boards common to the other courses.
