Landscape Architecture History

Code:

AP3001

Acronym:

AP3001

Level:

300

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2022/2023 - 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	31	Official Study Plan	3	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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

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

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, ...)

Classification improvement