Landscape Architecture History

Code:

AP3001

Acronym:

AP3001

Level:

300

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

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	16	Official Study Plan	3	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This unit intends to present and debate de development of landscape design and the most important periods of landscape architecture as art and profession and relate them to  different historical periods and geographical and cultural contexts. Apart from its value to understanding the history of the profession, this unit constitutes a basic instrument for the development of skills for landscape critic and the production of conservation plans for gardens and parks and other historic landscapes. 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that students will be able to know and identify the different periods of the history of Landscape Architecture, main figures and paradigmatic works; to recognize the diversity of formal typologies in landscape design; to identify the geographical, social, economic, artistic and cultural contexts that underlie and motivate those forms, acknowledging the influences that they may have received from previous periods as well as the ones that they generated afterwards.

Working method

Presencial

Program

- Landscape architecture as art and profession. Relation between Man and Nature through time and in different geographies and civilizations.
- First human artistic expressions in the landscape. Landscape art in Mesopotamia,  from origins to the Persian garden.
- Islamic garden - from West to Mughal India. Gardens and landscape in Egypt.
- Classical Antiquity: natural landscape, public space and domestic garden.
- Secular garden and monastic enclosures in mediaeval times.
- Modern Age, the renaissance of humanistic ideals, scientific advances and a new cosmology. Geometry, harmony and proportion - botanical collections and gardens.
- The French 17^th c. and the application of scientific principles to the design of baroque landscapes.
- The reaction to formal gardens and the assertion of the 18^th c. English landscape garden.
- 19^th c. in Europe. From Picturesque to the eclectic garden and the re-appreciation of formal past designs. From Public Walks to Public Gardens. Landscapa Architecture as profession.

Mandatory literature

Jellicoe Geoffrey; The landscape of man. ISBN: 978-0-500-27819-2
Araújo Ilídio Alves de; Arte paisagista e arte dos jardins em Portugal
Cabral Francisco Caldeira; Fundamentos da arquitectura paisagista. ISBN: 978-972-775-123-5

Complementary Bibliography

Pinto Coelho, Clara; Castel-Branco, Cristina ; Os Quatro Rios do Paraíso, Ed. D. Quixote, 1995
Hobhouse, Penelope; Plants in Garden History, Pavilion Books Ltd., 1992
Goode Patrick 340; The Oxford companion to gardens. ISBN: 978-0-19-860440-2
Gothein Marie Luise 1863-1931; A history of garden art. ISBN: 9781108076142 v. 1
Newton, Norman T. ; Design on the Land - the Development of Landscape Architecture, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971
Pregill Philip 1944-; Landscapes in history. ISBN: 978-0-471-29328-6
Hunt John Dixon; A world of gardens. ISBN: 9781861898807
Turner Tom; European Gardens History, Philosophy and Design, Routedge Taylor and Francis, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-415-49684-1
Ribeiro Orlando; Portugal, o mediterrâneo e o Atlântico. ISBN: 972-9230-39-0
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
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.
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
Andresen Teresa; Jardins históricos do Porto. ISBN: 978-972-8387-95-2
Carita, Helder; Cardoso, Homem ; Tratado da Grandeza dos Jardins em Portugal, Ed. Autores, 1987

Teaching methods and learning activities

In this unit, learning is facilitated through lectures, with the help of a large set of pictures using audiovisual means, although field trips may occur. Students are asked to actively participate in the debate of ideas and forms.

In the practical classes students are invited to prepare a portfolio, a compilation of students' own drawings and texts, that illustrate the main ideas and design paradigms through time.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Prova oral	35,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

It is mandatory to comply simultaneously:
- Attendance of 75% of the classes
- Delivery of the practical works on the fixed dates
- Participation in the fieldtrips

Calculation formula of final grade

Final mark = practical work x 0,60 + oral examination x 0,35 + participation in classes x 0,05

Note: Minimum score required to pass all the assessment components: 9.5.

Classification improvement

It will not be considered the possibility of grade improvement in the component 'Practical work', only in the component 'oral examination'.