Landscape Architecture History

Code:

AP321

Acronym:

AP321

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Landscape Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L:AP	28	Planos de estudos a partir 2009	3	-	2,5	28	67,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To know and identify the different phases on the History of Landscape Architecture, main figures and paradigmatic works. To recognise the formal typologies of landscape art, built along the centuries, and relate them to the geographic, artistic, cultural, social, and economic different contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

To know and identify the different phases on the History of Landscape Architecture, main figures and paradigmatic works. To recognise the formal typologies of landscape art, built along the centuries, and relate them to the geographic, artistic, cultural, social, and economic different contexts.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Landscape Architecture as Art and Profession. Analysis and interpretation of the relationship between Man and Nature through the centuries and in different geographic and cultural contexts. The origins of the Garden and the first artistic expressions in the landscape. Landscape art in Mesopotamia The Persian Garden and the Islamic garden. Expansion to West and East: from the Moorish gardens to the Mogul India. Landscape and Garden art in Ancient Egypt Classical Antiquity: Greece and Rome. Philosophy and knowledge, relation with «natural» landscape, public space and the domestic garden. The Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula: starting the building of the «Portuguese» landscape. The Mediaeval times. Social and cultural context and implications to the landscape. The Portuguese case Typologies of the lay gardens. Christianity, religious orders and monastery enclosures - production, meditation and recreation. The Modern Age and the renaissance of the humanistic ideals. Scientific advancements and a new cosmological conception. Discoveries and the contact with non European people and landscapes. Plant collections and botanical gardens. The Italian villas - renaissance gardens and evolution to Baroque. Renaissance outside Italy (in particular, in Portugal, France and England) The seventeenth century in France. Absolutism, rationalism, materialism and the application of the scientific thoughts to Nature - conceptual and formal paradigms and their application to Garden making. Influences in other European countries. The reaction to the formal, baroque garden - the revolution in appreciation and in the relation with Nature. The emergence and the development of the English School of Landscape Garden. Influences in European countries. The nineteenth century in Europe. Industrial revolution and technical developments. The era of the horticulturist/gardener. From the Picturesque to Gardenesque and to the ecletic garden and the appreciation of the formal models of former times. The public garden. Olmsted and the parkway system. Paris and the system of of romantic parks, squares and boulevards.

Mandatory literature

Andresen, Teresa; Portela Marques, Teresa; Jardins Históricos do Porto, Inapa, 2001
Gothein, Marie-Luise ; History of Garden Art, 1928
Newton, Norman T. ; Design on the Land - the Development of Landscape Architecture, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971
Araújo Ilídio Alves de; Arte paisagista e arte dos jardins em Portugal
Jellicoe Geoffrey; The landscape of man. ISBN: 978-0-500-27819-2
Turner Tom; European Gardens History, Philosophy and Design, Routedge Taylor and Francis, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-415-49684-1

Complementary Bibliography

Pinto Coelho, Clara; Castel-Branco, Cristina ; Os Quatro Rios do Paraíso, Ed. D. Quixote, 1995
Carita, Helder; Cardoso, Homem ; Tratado da Grandeza dos Jardins em Portugal, Ed. Autores, 1987
Araújo, Ilídio Alves de; Quintas de recreio: breve introdução ao seu estudo, com especial consideração das que em Portugal foram ordenadas durante o século XVIII, in ‘A Arte em Portugal no Século XVIII. Congresso Internacional de Estudos em Homenagem a André Soares, Sep. Bracara Augusta, Vol. 27, Fasc. 63 (75), Braga: Câmara Municipal, 1974, 15 p., 1974
Araújo, Ilídio Alves de; Jardins, Parques e Quintas de Recreio no aro do Porto, Comunicação no colóquio ‘O Porto na época moderna’, Sep. Revista de História, Vol. II, Porto: FLUP, 1979, 17 p.
Hobhouse, Penelope; Plants in Garden History, Pavilion Books Ltd., 1992
El Faïz, M., Anuarbe, M. Gomez, Marques, T. Portela; Jardins du Maroc, d’ Espagne et du Portugal - Un art de vivre partagé’, Malika Ediciones, 2003
Ribeiro Orlando; Portugal, o mediterrâneo e o Atlântico. ISBN: 972-9230-39-0
Cabral Francisco Caldeira; Fundamentos da arquitectura paisagista. ISBN: 978-972-8083-12-0
Goode Patrick 340; The Oxford companion to gardens. ISBN: 978-0-19-860440-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

theoretical classes

keywords

Humanities > History > Art History
Humanities > History
Humanities > Arts > Fine arts

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	80,00
Prova oral	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	0,00
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Compulsory attendance of 75% of the classes

Calculation formula of final grade

Final mark = 0,2 group work presentation + 0,8 exam (individual written paper)