HULG9170-1

Duration

36h Th

Number of credits

	Bachelor in landscape architect	3 crédits

Lecturer

Axel Fisher

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The Landscape theory course aims at introducing students to the plurality of landscape theories, to their main formal imaginaries and conceptual repertoires acorss a selection of key historical moments in Western landscape history.

The course is organized in 10 thematic lessons:

1. Landscape: a few definitions - multiple meanings of the "landscape" notion
2. The idea of landscape in geography
3. Rationality and modern sciences: ideal cities, formal gardens and agrarian reforms in Italian Renaissance
4. Picturesque and sublime, of the "naturalisation of agrarian capitallism"
5. Gilles Clément : lessons at the Collège de France
6. The green origins of modern urbanism: parcs, promenades and plantations in [London,] Paris and New York
7. Contemporary tehories: The territories of landscape, between description and project
8. Landscape urbanism for dummies
9. Landscape myths and Nation building
10. The happy home, or why do "Belgians have a brick in their stomach"

The course « Landscape Theory » is also proposed at the ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles' bachelor programme in architecture as part of the teaching unit « Built Heritage and Landscape » (code ARPA-P-3101).

See full syllabus on ULB's website: www.ulb.be/en/programme/arpa-p3101

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

By the completion of this teaching unit, the student will be capable to :

to recognize and situate a landscape thought (a narrative on a landscape, a reading of a landscape, a landscape design layout) within the history of the major landscape ideas ;
to recognize the works and attitudes of contemporary actors within the landscape field ;
to critically identity the consistency or discrepancy between the "narratives" of landscape designers and the "reality" of their works ;
to make use of the specific vocabulary and terminolgy of landscape designers ;
to take a personal and argument-based stand in the face of a landscape issue.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

General prerequisites: The final skills expected at the end of secondary school (in French, geography, history, economical and social sciences, education to philosophy and citizenship) as defined by the Service général de l'Inspection de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (see : http://www.enseignement.be/index.php?page=25189&navi=296 )

Specific prerequisites:

HULG9168-1 Territory and landscape
HULG9174-1 Landscape aesthetics
HULG9186-1 Urbanity and Lanscape
HULG9187-1 History of architecture and art

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

This course consists of conventional lectures during which the teacher introduces activities aimed at dynamizing exchanges among participants, and stimulate learning.

Students unable or unwilling to partake to weekly in-class lectures may rely on the course compendium (available on UV platform) and on podscasts of previous years' lectures.

Weekly in-class lectures

Before every class :

Read one or more texts related to the forthcoming themed lesson (available on UV)
View last year's podcast of the forthcoming themed lesson : https://podcast-ulb-ac-be.ezproxy.ulb.ac.be/ezplayer/?action=view_album_assets&album=ARPA-P-3002-pub&token=ZVIGBOKY

During the in-class lesson (2 hours) :

Conventional lecture by the teacher (±1 hour) + interactive activities (e.g., Wooclap questions / understanding exercizes)
Questions & Anwers session (± 20 minutes)

Pre-recorded model (e.g. for students having other parallel classes at the same time)

View last year's podcasts : https://podcast-ulb-ac-be.ezproxy.ulb.ac.be/ezplayer/?action=view_album_assets&album=ARPA-P-3002-pub&token=ZVIGBOKY
Choose 2 themed lessons: 1 among lessons #2 to #5 + 1 among lessons #6 to #10
Prepare for being examined on the texts available on UV for the 2 chosen lessons + 1 mandatory lesson (see below).

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course

Additional information:

see above

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Calendar of classes and locations:

my.calendar.uliege.be

For the most updated calendar, check ULB's online calendar:
https://cloud.timeedit.net/be_ulb/web/public/ri166XQQ506Z50Qv7406QgZ6y6Y350Y97Y7.html

Contacts

Contacts with the teachers are to take place exclusively through the "FORUM" tool on the UV-Université Virtuelle of ULB:

https://uv.ulb.ac.be/mod/forum/view.php?id=1168325

Landscape theory