Duration
96h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 8 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
"Landscape architecture" is a project and research field which is rapidly developing, generating a sea change within contemporary societies. Already described by H. Repton as an inherent part of landscape gardening in the 18th century, this sector has long been kept apart from official approaches to land management. It is now re-emerging through a new "green revolution" which puts into question the different ways (through ecology, the environment, sustainability, and balance between systems, material and human beings) in which our ways of acting and thinking relate to living spaces and to architecture. Landscape architecture, as a subject which is both independent of and integrated into town planning, has its own theories, methods and techniques. These are subject to discussion, exercises and experimentation on site, with the aim of raising architects' awareness of temporalities and materials affecting the design of component systems which are not organised into a hierarchy. Changes to contemporary landscapes lead to manufactured landscapes characterised by fragmentation and dislocation, which are difficult to grasp in an overarching manner. When it is based on a systemic approach, landscape architecture is an integrated process offering methodological and theoretical ways to respond to questions posed by a new typology of nature (urban and infrastructural landscape, interstitial space, urban countryside, wasteland and brown field sites, urban forestation systems, and/or water and landscape, etc.). Specific modules prepare students for the landscape project:
A. natural components - earth, plant cover, water and air - through on-site visits, drawings, 3D models or scale models to study relief and other components;
B. ways of reading the landscape: observation drawings and diagrams; reading through photos and video cameras; texts as publicity or the history and/or voice of the sites under study.
C. the theory of the landscape project reinforced through meetings with those on the ground. The theory part is complemented by experimentation through short projects relating to contemporary questions about the land.
It is proposed that 2M students look more deeply at the project alongside the architectural project themes.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
This workshop is based on the knowledge acquired especially during the classes on "Means of Expression", history and theory of the town and landscape, philosophy, etc., as well as on the experience of students working on their "architecture project".
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Visits, meetings, and outings with sketch books will alternate with work in the workshop around projects whose theme will be introduced at the start of the year.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face: regular participation in the workshop is essential.
Recommended or required readings
Documentation comprised of notes and reference works will be available during the workshops.
Assessment methods and criteria
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Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Rita Occhuito, Bénédicte Henry
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Communication via e-mail of documents and texts
Meetings by videoconference for follow-up the work
Assessment subjects
Filing of a graphic work of interpretation and summary text
Assessment methods
Analysis of the relationships developed between texts and graphic interpretations. Qualities of critical redings and transposition of texts into images and signs.
Contacts
Rita Occhiuto
Bénédicte Henry