Duration
144h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in landscape architect, professional focus | 12 crédits |
Lecturer
Nathanaëlle Baës-Cantillon, Marc Dufrêne, Sébastien Heuss, Julie Martineau
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Project practice in landscape architecture at territorial and metropolitan scale, looking at society dynamics.
Based on actual site, the reflections relate to meaningful topical subjects at short and long term view, to which the students in landscape architecture provide with appropriate answers, integrating agricultural issues and ecosystemic services as fields of thoughts, also climate change, water crisis, energy policies, transports issues etc; in a sustainable way.
The topic is about the interface - with variable thickness boundaries more or less movable -between territories, where and how they're brought face to face, with landscape as a common good and landscape project as a mediator.
Q8 2025-2026 : post-industrial landscape mutation : Charleroi
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Being able to undertake an analysis and interpret the results;
Being able to make its own statement and autonomous critical reflection on a complex situation;
Being able to develop a consistent argument;
Being able to consider working in a cross-disciplinary approach;
Being able to integrate theoretical knowledge into the project of landscape architecture;
Being able to develop a collective work methodology and individual one.
This course aims to help students in building their own consistent approach, starting from a careful reading and a site-specific analysis precise and site-specific analysis (cf. Bernard Lassus, Analyse inventive, in Mouvance, volume 1), and leading to a spatial response, more focused on the time-space process of its production than an aesthetic shape - including territorial, political, social, historic characteristics - than the esthetical form of it.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Good knowledge of landscape architecture tools (mapping, plan, section, transect, model, block diagram, axonometry, etc);
Skills in measuring, in surveying, in multi scaling;
Practice of collective and individual work;
Being able to estimate the right balance between substance and form of the project.
Being able to mobilise skills in support of a critical approach and of an articulated design position.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
That course is based on a continuous process, organised in several parts:
A- Collaborative data pooling:
Consists in collecting data at territorial scale, which boundaries are defined by the nature of the analysis itself, to share.
That part includes a collective work methodology that is identified and explained in a collective written report.
B- Collective work:
Analytic transects about territorial reading.
C- Individual work:
articulated in 4 specific parts:
1- DETERMINED LANDSCAPE READING/INVENTIVE ANALYSIS (cf Bernard Lassus) observation and qualification of studied landscape, in relation with issues raised in the duo analysis.
2- The student makes his/her STATEMENT based on the results of the analysis, developing an autonomous critical approach, to define the landscape design that will guide him/her towards the project.
3- The student defines a consistent EVOLVING SCENARIO.
4- The LANDSCAPE PROJECT DESIGN itself, as a response to the issues identified before in continuity of the 3 previous operations.
Students individually read, summarise, position themselves and communicate about a written document which they present.
An abstract paper describing the issues, objectives and reflexive process is required one week before the final jury.
On side of the studio are planned a 1 day and a 3-day trip > Charleroi
A short workshop (2 to 3 days) is to consider (TBC)
To encourage cross-disciplinarity, students in Landscape Architecture will meet every Fridays with students in Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture of the ULB and share about their respective project issues.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
This course is given in studio.
Compulsory attendance, one day and half per week, face to face with at least 1 teacher.
To encourage the students to make their own statements, this course provide them with several teachers with diverse skills (landscape architecture, ecology, hydrology)
Course materials and recommended or required readings
To be precised during the course
Continuous assessment
Other : Jury
Further information:
> One jury for collective work; 10%
> Several pre-jurys before the final one 10%
> On going work evaluation, looking at motivation, commitment, initiatives, mutualisation, consistency etc. 35%
> One final individual jury (composed of internal and external members) 45%
Appraisal based on:
- consistency of reflective process 20%;
- student's statement consistency, substantial and audacious proposal 20%;
- balance between content and form 20% ;
- knowledge of landscape architect's tools and reflex 20%;
- quality of oral exam 20%
Weighting:
Final jury: 45%
Other jurys : 20%
Work in progress: 35%
Possible 2nd session for marks between 9 and 10 only.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course is taking place:
> Thursdays from 2pm to 5pm : Bâtiment Flagey, 19 - 1050 Bruxelles, local Be1.4
> Fridays from 9.30am to 4.30pm : Bâtiment rue du Lombard, 36 - 1000 Bruxelles, 4th floor to the right
Contacts
Julie Martineau
Faculté d'Architecture de l'ULB
Place Flagey, 19
1050 - Bruxelles
tel: +32 474 69 65 20
julie.martineau@ulb.be