LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The course is part of the educational activities of the Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities program, which trains developing skills and critical capacity in the design and management of cultural heritage, activities, and institutions. The course aims to provide reading tools useful to interpret the theories and practices of a discipline such as landscape architecture that, from the eighteenth century and up to contemporary developments, has allowed to experiment with innovative design forms and has determined a new perception of the landscape. The focus of objects, themes, and issues will concern a wide context, within which the historical, symbolic, constructive, aesthetic, and ecological reasons for the landscape architecture project will be critically considered.

1. Knowledge and understanding: know specific terminology related to the subject matter; know the major steps in the telling of a history of landscape architecture.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: ability to examine with ownership of method and language an example of landscape architecture in its cultural, architectural, and landscape context.
3. Ability to make judgments: to know how to argue the critical reading of a case study based on a specific bibliography.
4. Communication skills: know how to expound with clarity and critical capacity the results of a thematic research.
5. Learning skills: know how to consult and critically use the bibliography provided during the course.

It is advisable to have some basic knowledge of art history and architectural history.

The course is intended as an introduction to the subject of landscape and as a history of approaches to the idea of landscape. A description of the origins of the concept of landscape and its emergence as a cultural concept, in relation also to the development of a specific genre of painting and the context of precise aesthetic theories, will be followed by an in-depth analysis of a series of case studies, from the Early Modern period to the contemporary, to reconstruct the history of the discipline termed landscape architecture.

What is Landscape?
Landscape and Painting; Nature and Culture; The Aesthetic of the Sublime; The Picturesque; Landscape as Literature; Landscape and Time; Landscape and Ecology; The Fourth Nature of the Contemporary City

Is Landscape Architecture?
Humphry Repton's Revolution; The Landscape Practice Olmsted's Generation; Nineteenth-Century Paris Laboratory; Le Corbusier's Ville Verte; Scandinavian Minimalism: Carl Theodor Sørensen; Alvar Aalto: the Forest Landscape; Roberto Burle Marx: a Modern Tropical Landscape; Brasilia Cidade Parque; Lawrence Halprin: City and Wilderness; Carlo Scarpa's Landscape; On the Future for the Landscape Architecture.

Basic Bibliography

P. D'Angelo, Filosofia del paesaggio, Quodlibet, Macerata 2010.
Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim (eds.), Is Landscape...? Essays on the Identity of Landscape, Routledge, New York 2016.
Jean-Marc Besse, Paesaggio ambiente. Natura, territorio, percezione, DeriveApprodi, Roma 2020.

A specific bibliography related to the topics of the lessons will be provided at the beginning of the course.

The final evaluation will be based on an oral individual exam which will be intended to verify the student’s knowledge and critical understanding of the subjects of the lectures.
It is also required the elaboration of a thematic research to be delivered before the exam.

Lectures.
Some study visits will be scheduled at the beginning of the course.

Italian

Ca’ Foscari follows the Italian law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) for the support and accommodation services available to students with disabilities or specific learning disabilities. If you have either a motor, visual, hearing or another disability (Law 17/1999), or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and you require support (classroom assistance, technological aids for carrying out exams or personalized exams, accessible format material, note retrieval, specialist tutoring as study support, interpreters or other), please contact the Disability and DSA office disabiita@unive.it.

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Natural capital and environmental quality" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development