Course detail

Landscape Architecture

FA-ZAA-TEAcad. year: 2021/2022

The course builds on core urban design courses dealing with functional, operational, and spatial relations. In the lectures students are introduced to the development of landscape and garden art, the current concepts of the discipline and its relation to urban design and architecture. The lectures and seminars are also focused on comprehensive design of urban environment, i.e. on paved surfaces, street furniture, water features and works of art. The emphasis is on the use of plants in urban design and the principles and rules of using greenery in design. In the lectures and seminars students are acquainted with inspirational realisations of city and landscape environment.
In the study programmes “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the theoretical courses.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Denisa Hrubanová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Urban Design (UU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Based on the theoretical knowledge, students will develop a design for a selected area in urban or landscape environment. They will apply the principles of designing a renovation of public spaces containing greenery, paved surfaces and street furniture. The final design should revitalise, modernise, or completely change the use of the existing space.

Course curriculum

Course syllabus:
  1. The development of landscape architecture and garden art I (gardens of antiquity, medieval gardens, modern gardens)
  2. The development of landscape architecture and garden art II (gardens of the 19th century – formal garden, collection and introduction of new plant species, city park)
  3. The development of landscape architecture and garden art III (organic and modernist gardens, outdoor room, gardens designed to be viewed from above, gardens in the natural environment, structural gardens)
  4. Application of natural elements in human settlements and their meaning for sustainable development
  5. Detail in the present-day landscape design
  6. Land art in landscape design
  7. Work on design assignment

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Not applicable.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BLAKE Jimi and Noel KINGSBURY. A beautiful obsession: Jimi Blake´s world of plants at Hunting Brook Gardens. Bath: Filbert Press, 2019. 240 p. ISBN 978-1999734527. (EN)
DUNNETT Nigel and James HITCHMOUGH. The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting. London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2004. 336 p. ISBN 978-0415438100. (EN)
DUNNETT Nigel and Noel KINGSBURY. Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls. Portland: Timber Press, 2008. 256 p. ISBN 978-0881929119. (EN)
DUNNETT Nigel. Naturalistic Planting Design: The Essential Guide. Bath: Filbert Press, 2019. 240 p. ISBN 9780993389269. (EN)
HOLDEN, Robert. New landscape design today. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003. 192 s. ISBN 1 85669 290 6. Holden, Robert. New landscape design today. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003. 192 s. ISBN 1 85669 290 6. (EN)
JELLICOE, Geoffrey Alan and Susan JELLICOE. The landscape of man: shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day. 3. vyd. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. 408 s. ISBN 0-500-27819-9. (EN)
LYNCH, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960. ISBN 9780262620017 (EN)
MOSTAEDI, Adrian. Landscape design today. Barcelona: Carles Broto & Josep Maria Minguet, 175 s. ISBN 84-89861-97-8. (EN)
Piet OUDOLF. Planting the natural garden. Portland: Timber Press, 2019. 288 p. ISBN 978-1604699739 (EN)
SPENS, Michael. Modern landscape. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. 239 s. ISBN 0 7148 4155 2. (EN)
WALLINGTON Jack. Wild about Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants. Laurence King Publishing, 2019. 176 p. ISBN 978-1786275301 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme ARCHURB Master's

    branch ARCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BX_A+U Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme NX_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme ARCHURB Bachelor's

    branch ARCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme ARCHURB Master's

    branch ARCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme ARCHURB Bachelor's

    branch ARCH , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Denisa Hrubanová, Ph.D.