City and landscape

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Rita Occhiuto

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Located at the end of the bachelor cycle, the course presents the general aspects of the history of urban and landscape architecture, necessary to understand the "built and unbuilt" report that the man continues to evolve to adapt initially and then to develop and reaffirm his mastery of natural environments inhabited. These contents complement the architectural culture of undergraduate and open to extensive knowledge specific Master program, which offer the opportunity to question the notion of sustainability through knowledge theory of landscape, urban design and landscape architecture . These interactions provide a new useful potential architectural project becoming a tool to rethink the contexts inhabited put in relation with the landscape resources places continuously changing. The course presents the urban forms as architectural experimentation that made moult configurations of our landscapes. Always dialectical existing between "natural" and mineral materials are highlighted. Readings changes traces recorded on the ground by human action and the natural action joint, allow to understand the existing complementarities and challenges that each change operation environments has. The city, analyzed as an artifact of nature and culture, the result of dialectical transformation / domestication of existing landscapes or "already there", can: - Reintegrate architecture in the production cycle of the common space; - Comply with the principles of the European Landscape Convention; - Find items that meet the UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscapes. "City and Landscape" deals with the continuous interaction between built and unbuilt, and documents the many phases of "return to nature" which, in times of crisis, were key recurring times. Step necessary to reconsider existing forms of equilibrium in order to redirect the interdependent forces between architecture and nature. The course leads the student to look at the architectural and landscape space from the vacuum gap, public space and the different types of cutting ground. Geomorphology and logical formation / transformation to understanding the most basic forms of drawing ground and proved to be useful in understanding the forms of intelligence operations of the soil resource in the construction of urban ensembles of more more complex. And the city appears as a configuration consisting of minerals and plant expressing a tight dialectic between natural and human forces, and yet still being modified. The urban history also acquires the form of a story that traces a journey taming of nature and a progressive detachment of natural constraints "always already there." Reconsideration of landscape reasons underlying changes architectural configurations (densification, deconstruction, diffusion) can find the basic elements that make the city legible again and reconsider and, also, as a landscape. Found this regard extends the thinking towards contemporary forms of land use and natural resources in the presence of the urban phenomenon, to consider sustainability as the degree zero of the city, namely, the integration of Nature and strength of transformation (climate change, seasons, water balances, etc..).

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Aspects of geomorphology and morphology of landscapes and buildings. Notions of landscape geography. Detailed study of typological readings. Study of cities. Main urban projects and landscape reading. Evolution of urban form. Influence of the theme of "return to nature" for the creation of new urban models. Habitats and architectural and urban experimentation: housing and modernity, the contemporary city, the city above ground, historicism, the three ages, ultramodern visions ....

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Written or oral exam

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

For the examination of the August-September 2020 session, the subject still concerns the history and evolution of urban forms.

Assessment methods

The evaluation will relate to a written work of 2 or 3 A4 pp. maximum.
This will take the form of a dissertation developed on a subject to be chosen by the student among the themes of history and evolution of the urban (plots, blocks and fabrics) and associated landscapes.
The evaluation will focus on the clarity of the written expression and the ability to critically appropriate the subject.

Contacts

Work submission address in pdf format with Surname and First name:
r.occhiuto@uliege.be

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