Landscape Architecture History
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Landscape Architecture |
Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S ![Requerida a integração com o Moodle Ícone do Moodle](/fcup/pt/imagens/MoodleIcon)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
L:AP |
31 |
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 design, landscape critic and the production of conservation plans for gardens and parks and other types of 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
ORIGINS
- 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 and garden origins.
THE CENTRAL CIVILIZATIONS
- Landscape art in Mesopotamia: Sumer, Assyria and Persia. Islam: origins and expansion to West and East, to Mughal India.
THE WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS
- Ancient History. Gardens and landscape in Egypt. Classical Antiquity: Greece and Rome. Natural landscape, public space and domestic garden.
- Post-classical History (European Middle Ages). Secular garden and monastic enclosures in mediaeval times.
- Early Modern History. The renaissance of humanistic ideals. Scientific advances and a new cosmology. Botanical collections and gardens. Italian villae and the Renaissance and Mannerist garden. From Renaissance to Baroque. The French 17th century and the application of scientific and mathematical principles to the design of baroque landscapes.
- Transition to Late Modern History. The reaction to formal gardens and the assertion of the 18th century English landscape garden. 19th c. in Europe. From Picturesque to the eclectic garden and the re-appreciation of formal past designs. From Public Walks to Public Gardens. Landscape Architecture as profession and social art.
Mandatory literature
Araújo Ilídio Alves de;
Arte paisagista e arte dos jardins em Portugal
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
Jellicoe Geoffrey;
The landscape of man. ISBN: 978-0-500-27819-2
Newton, Norman T. ; Design on the Land - the Development of Landscape Architecture, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971
Pinto Coelho, Clara; Castel-Branco, Cristina ; Os Quatro Rios do Paraíso, Ed. D. Quixote, 1995
Tate, Alan; Great City Parks, Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 9780415538053
Thompson, Ian; Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford University Press , 2014. ISBN: 9780199681204
Treib, Marc (ed.); The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN: 0812236238
Turner, Tom; Twenty four Historic Styles of Garden Design, Garden visit.com, 2008. ISBN: 0954230639
Turner Tom; European Gardens History, Philosophy and Design, Routedge Taylor and Francis, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-415-49684-1
John Dixon Hunt;
The genius of the place. ISBN: 9780262580922
Hobhouse, Penelope; Plants in Garden History, Pavilion Books Ltd., 1992
Complementary Bibliography
Pregill Philip 1944-;
Landscapes in history. ISBN: 978-0-471-29328-6
Hunt John Dixon;
A world of gardens. ISBN: 9781861898807
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
Helder Carita;
Tratado da grandeza dos jardins em Portugal ou da originalidade e desaires desta arte
Thierry Mariage;
The world of André Le Nôtre. ISBN: 9780812234688
Charles E. Beveridge;
Frederick Law Olmsted. ISBN: 978-0-8478-1842-6
Cabral Francisco Caldeira;
Fundamentos da arquitectura paisagista. ISBN: 978-972-775-123-5
Teresa Dulce Portela Marques;
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal. ISBN: 978-972-9147-98-2
Filippo Pizzoni;
The^garden. ISBN: 978-1-85410-655-1
Comments from the literature
Other texts considered as fundamental reading, including scientific articles and excerpts from monographs, will be made available throughout the semester by the course professors.
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. Students are asked to actively participate in the debate of ideas and forms.
In the practical classes students are invited to produce a practical work.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
designation |
Weight (%) |
Exame |
70,00 |
Trabalho prático ou de projeto |
30,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
designation |
Time (hours) |
Estudo autónomo |
106,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
56,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
The student must assure: (1) compulsory attendance in 75% of the classes; (2) participation in eventual field classes; (3) minimum grade of 9,5/20 in the practical work
Calculation formula of final grade
Final Exam (70%) + Practical work (30%)
Minimum grade for course approving of 9.5/20 in all evaluation elements.
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
Students covered by any special status should meet with the course professors to discuss the evaluation system in the begining of the term.
Classification improvement
It will not be considered the possibility of grade improvement in the component 'Practical work'.