Course detail

Landscape Architecture

FA-ZAA-TEAcad. year: 2025/2026

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

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Denisa Hrubanová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Urban Design (UU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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.

Aims

Not applicable.

Study aids

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)

Type of course unit

Seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Denisa Hrubanová, Ph.D.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Landscape Architecture

Type of course unit