LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The course is part of the educational activities of the Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities program, which trains to develop 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, figurative, constructive, aesthetic and ecological reasons in the project of landscape architecture 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 also on the basis of 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.

To be specified by the assigned adjunct professor.
However, exemplary contents will be along the following lines:
The course is intended as an introduction to the subject of landscape and as an history of approaches to the idea of landscape. The course will combine conceptual reflections with analysis of in-depthe case studies.

To be specified by the assigned adjunct professor.

To be specified by the assigned adjunct professor.
In any case, the final exam will evaluate whether the students have acquired the knowledge provided by the course, the argumentative skills developed by the students, their ability to communicate with critical awareness as well as to apply the main concepts to relevant contexts.

Lectures.
The course might include some study visits to be scheduled at the beginning of the course. More information will be communicated by the assigned adjunct professor.

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.

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