TEORIE E PRATICHE DELLA PROGETTAZIONEModule TEORIA E PROGETTO DEL PAESAGGIO
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: SIMONA CALVAGNAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide the conceptual and operational tools to introduce students to landscape design. The objective is to make students understand its complexity, orienting them towards a design approach aimed at deciphering and controlling the relationships, both material and immaterial, between man and nature in space and time. Students will have to learn how to observe and interpret the characteristics of the landscape, in order to be able to shape new configurations capable of improving the frameworks of life by establishing dialogues between the components, with the freedom to make continuous changes of scale, favouring the integration between the reflections matured at different observation distances.
The skills acquired at the end of the course will be
- ability to critically interpret the main contemporary projects of open spaces, parks and gardens, built on basic knowledge of the historical evolution of landscape architecture;
- ability to read and analyse the landscape system in its material and intangible complexity as well as recognising useful elements for design purposes
- comprehension of the salient aspects of the landscape architecture design, ability to govern its initial phases (analysis, concept, master plan guidelines) and to elaborate unconventional graphic renderings (collage, maquette, etc.) appropriate to the representation techniques proper to the discipline.
Course Structure
The teaching is divided into three parts, conducted in an integrated manner for the two modules. The various activities take place mainly in the classroom, from participation in theoretical lectures to in-depth work and project simulations. To complete the teaching path, outings and guided visits are planned to sites of particular landscape interest as well as the subject of in-depth reflection and/or design.
Specifically, the three parts are:
frontal lessons
guided thematic in-depth studies
Design exercises
The design exercises may also be conducted in the form of workshops, following a timetable to be agreed upon with the students.
Required Prerequisites
A strong knowledge of the history of architecture and having actively attended carrying out the project) the Architecture and Architectural Composition Course and Workshop I is required.
Attendance of Lessons
Class attendance is mandatory. In order to sit the final examination, it is necessary to have attended 70% (50% for working students) of the lecture hours.
Detailed Course Content
The contents of the course, integrated with those of the complementary module of Theories and Practices of the Architectural Project, start from a conceptual framework on the theme of landscape in which the boundaries and overlaps of the disciplines involved are established, to arrive at a definition of the main theoretical and operational references of the landscape project through the reading and critical analysis of exemplary works.
The theoretical lessons unfold along a conceptual path that links the key concepts of "landscape", "garden" and "public park", to finally focus on the monographic theme.
The specific theme of the design exercise will be "The Anthropocene garden".
Textbook Information
ATRIPALDI A. M. (a cura di), Il paesaggio: teoria pratica e progetto. Esperienze francesi contemporanee. Gangemi Editore Roma 2007.
ATRIPALDI A. M., CALVAGNA S. (a cura di), Le forme del paesaggio, dall’Etna agli Iblei. Anabiblo Roma 2012.
CALVAGNA S. , Oltre l’asse. La dimensione paesaggistica del progetto urbano tra la Défense e la Senna. Anabiblo Roma 2012.
CLEMENT G., Breve storia del giardino. Quodlibet Macerata 2012.
CLEMENT G., Manifesto del terzo paesaggio, Quodlibet Macerata 2004.
CORTESI I., Il parco pubblico, paesaggi 1985-2000, Federico Motta Editore Milano 2000.
ROGER A. , Breve trattato sul paesaggio. Sellerio Editore Palermo 2009.
Lotus n. 87 e 150
Lotus Navigator n. 2 e 5
Additional and specific bibliographical references, digital materials and online resources will be provided during the lectures and classroom project work.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The cultural notion of landscape | |
| 2 | Garden | |
| 3 | The public park | |
| 4 | The materials of the landscape architecture project | |
| 5 | Architecture for landscape |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
The cultural notion of landscape, polysemy of the term, difference between landscape, territory and environment, aesthetics vs. ecology
The European Landscape Convention
Landscape Urbanism and urban regeneration through landscape; drosscape
The garden, garden art and the birth of the public park
Landscape design or green design?
The contemporary garden, critical interpretation of the main examples and authors covered in the lectures