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| ARCH0454-1 | Theory of landscape project
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Rita Occhiuto |
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| French language |
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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| The course explores the region based on the concept of 'space', a generic term used to explore the evolution of spatial typologies, subjects and thoughts which make up a 'grammar of the landscape' providing us with the codes for reading spaces, interstices, and non-places which characterise the organisation of new contemporary living contexts (town and country). The concept of 'space' (abstract space) is opposed to the concept of a 'void' (material space), in the sense of strength or tension which interacts between different subjects which comprise living spaces. This conceptual shift in meaning enables project methodologies, from the premise of landscape-object to landscape-relation, to be critically re-read closer to hybrid regional realities, 'acted upon' by the landscape forces which are multiple in terms of nature and temporality. Critical reflections developed around these concepts enable us to discover the potential present in the European Landscape Convention and to study innovations or updates of recurring landscape themes which underlie the development of post-modern towns and regions. The landscape reasons which today form the methodologies which orient projects towards greater interaction between architecture, town planning and regional development.
The course presents the composition of parks, gardens and green spaces as the basic components which have always governed regional recomposition. These typologies are presented as regional 'generators' (old and new). What enables us to construct approaches to landscape which go beyond the concept of the 'enclave' or the 'island and the ribbon' (R. Koolhaas) in order to propose networked spaces constituting new systems.
The course opens up a critical line of questioning on the future of non-built spaces and also revisits experiments such as those of land art (R. Serra, R. Smithson, etc.) and the latest generation of landscape projects (Emscherpark, the deltas, etc.). |
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| Written or oral exam. |
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