2019-2020 / ARCH1953-1

In-depth workshop: landscaping project

Duration

96h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in architecture (120 ECTS)8 crédits 

Lecturer

Benedicte Henry, Rita Occhiuto

Coordinator

Rita Occhiuto

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

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.).

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

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

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Assessment methods and criteria

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 readings and transposition of texts into images and signs.

Contacts

Rita Occhiuto
Bénédicte Henry

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

Assessment subjects

Assessment methods

Contacts