Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
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
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
Geomorphology and urban/landscape morphology constitute the main subject of the course. The crossing of the elements of the urban composition (plot, block, habitat, housing, etc.) with the components of landscape writings (garden, park, woods, large area, etc.) will be the basis of a historical journey retracing the main phases of development of European cities and territories. The material is structured as follows:
DESCRIPTION of the TERRITORY
COMPACT CITY in LANDSCAPE and LANDSCAPE in CITY.
From the CITY to the METROPOLE
The CITY and the ANTI-URBANISTS
PLANNED URBAN EXTENSIONS
MODERNISM and its relation to LANDSCAPE
The POST-MODERN LANDSCAPE
THE OPEN BLOCKS: experiments
THE PERIPHERY as URBAN CONDITION and LANDSCAPE
The LANDSCAPE URBANISM
More specifically, the course will give orientation keys concerning:
- the "return to nature" for the creation of new urban models;
- the 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, hybrid learning)
Recommended or required readings
The exam consists of writing work on a subject chosen by the student and agreed with the teacher.