Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
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.).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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
The course material is the same and the supports are always the slides and the different texts deposited in the "Notes online"
Assessment methods
The evaluation will relate to a written work of 2 or 3 pages maximum. This will take the form of a dissertation developed on a subject chosen by the student from the themes of history and evolution of gardens, parks and public spaces, used to explain changes in the relationship between man and nature over time . The evaluation will focus on clarity of 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