Landscape History and Critique

Code:

AP4020

Acronym:

AP4020

Level:

400

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M:AP	24	Official Study Plan	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To develop the ability to make critique and judgments on the conceptual qualities of the designed landscapes – judgments must be built on the understanding of the kinds of relationship that humans, in the West and through the centuries, have established with nature, the arts, science and technology, revealing changes in his scientific, artistic and cosmologic views.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that students: acquire knowledge essential for evaluation of conceptual approaches, capacities to contextualize interventions; associate interventions to geographical, historical, social and cultural contexts; exercise critique as an essential practice of landscape architecture.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Art History, Landscape Architecture History

Program

The programme will focus on the landscape art from the 18th century to the present time. The program deepens knowledge on history of Landscape Architecture. It focuses on the analysis of the evolution of human thought and relationship with nature, manifested in artistic production, particularly in the conception of amenity landscapes.

Mandatory literature

Brown, Jane; The Modern Garden, Thames & Hudson, 2000
Spens, Michael; Modern Landscape, Phaidon Press Limited, 2003
Church, Thomas; Gardens are for people, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983
Treib Marc 340; Modern landscape architecture. ISBN: 978-0-262-20092-9
Andresen Teresa 070; Do Estádio Nacional ao jardim Gulbenkian. ISBN: 978-972-678-034-2
Marques, Teresa Portela; Jardins Privados do Porto: da viragem do século XX ao Parque de Serralves, Porto, Fundção de Serralves, 2011 (In Jacques Gréber Urbanista e Arquitecto de Jardins/Urbanist And Garden Designer)
Marques, Teresa Portela; Horticultura e Jardinagem-Paisagista e a Construção do Porto do Romantismo, Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2012 ( In Actas do Congresso ‘O Porto Romântico’)
Marques, Teresa Portela; Dos jardineiros paisagistas e horticultores do Porto de Oitocentos ao modernismo na arquitectura paisagista em Portugal, 2009
Andresen Teresa; Paisagens portuguesas nos meados do século XX. Contextos. Conteudos. Contributos para a modernidade, 2004
treib marc; Modern Landscape: Polemics, forms, and politics, 2003
Richardson Tim; Futurescapes., Thames & Hudson , 2011
Thompson, Ian; Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press , 2014. ISBN: 9780199681204
Treib, Marc; Must Landscapes Mean?: Approaches to Significance in Recent Landscape Architecture, Landscape Journal 14(1):46-62 · January , 1995
Berleant, Arnold; The Aesthetics of Art and Nature, in Allen Carlson & Arnold Berleant, Aesthetics of the Natural Environment, Broadview Press, 2004
Maria Teresa Andresen; Para a crítica da paisagem

Complementary Bibliography

Eckbo, Garrett; Landscape for Living , University of Massachusetts Press , 2009
Fernandes, José Manuel; Arquitectura Modernista em Portugal-1890-1940, Gradiva, 1993
Imbert, Dorothée ; Between garden and city: Jean Canneel-Claes and landscape modernism , University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
Imbert, Dorothée ; The Modernist Garden in France, Yale University Press, 1993
Kassler, Elizabeth; Modern Gardens and the Landscape, The Museum of Modern Art, 1964
Tostões, Ana; Arquitectura Moderna Portuguesa, 1920-1970 , Instituto Português do Património arquitectónico, 2004. ISBN: 9728736355
Treib, Marc; The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens: Modern California Masterworks, William K Stout Pub , 2005. ISBN: 0974621412
Zevi, Bruno; História da Arquitectura Moderna, Editora Arcádia, 1973
Treib, Marc; The Architecture of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN: 0812236238
Andresen Teresa; Francisco Caldeira Cabral. ISBN: 978-0-9518377-6-4
Tunnard, Christopher; Gardens in the Modern Landscape, The Architectural Press, 1938
Ogrin Dusan ; The Origin of Form in Landscape Architecture, 1990
Elliot Brent; Victorian Gardens, 1986
Andresen, Teresa e Marques, Teresa P. ; Jardins Históricos do Porto, Ed. INAPA, 2001

Comments from the literature

In classes, texts will be distributed, taken from these or other works, for analysis and critique.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, seminars for analysis and critique of texts, and studio classes. Students are called to participate through the discussion of texts and through the presentation of their work of historical investigation and on the critique of contemporary works of landscape architecture. The debate associated with the assessment of the students works will reinforce their knowledge on the programmatic contents and the practice of objective analysis and critique.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	100,00
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

Terms of frequency:  Absence limite of 25 % and successful completion of the components of assessment.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of the evaluation components (minimum of 8 in each of the components 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students exempt from the verification of attendance conditions must first agree with the teacher, in the first week of classes, aspects related to their participation in the classes and the evaluation mode.

Classification improvement

not applicable