OVERVIEW

The aim of the course is to develop the skills required for drafting a landscape design: the ability to analyse a context and the sensitivity to find its vocations and latent values, the creativity to bring together skills, knowledge and intuitions in a design and the technical ability to represent it. The course includes a design work with progressive progress checks and lectures that support the work-in-progress.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course, with theoretical lectures, practical exercises and in-depth seminars, provides the tools for reading, interpreting and representing landscape architecture. The aim is to develop the ability to recognise its material and immaterial values, invisible nodes and networks, codes of behaviour, and the underlying rules that guide the evolution of the landscape, as well as the creativity and technical skills necessary to translate them into a design that is both a "device" and a "detonator" of quality.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will acquire the background to deal with the major complexities involved in the lab in the second semester. They will develop methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of the urban landscape, research methodologies aimed at its design, acquire notions of the compositional principles of landscape design, its representation and communication.

TEACHING METHODS

The course consists of theoretical lectures, seminars and site visits to support the design exercise; the latter will be conducted by groups of two or more students and its progress will be evaluated in the form of discussions and reviews with the teachers.

Students who have a valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the teacher and with the Department of Architecture and Design's disability referent (https://architettura.unige.it/commissioni_e_referenti_dipartimento).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The contents of the course are inherent to the peculiarities of the landscape design: deciphering the specificity of a place - the ecological, social, economic processes underway, the underlying rules that have guided its evolution - and with creativity and farsightedness reinterpreting it as possible and unprecedented forms of coexistence between people and nature; giving shape and recognisability to the open spaces between buildings, parks, gardens, streets, squares, all those disused residual areas that, today, the environmental emergency requires us to rethink with natural arrangements. 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Basic bibliography

M. Corrado e A. Lambertini, Atlante delle nature urbane. Centouno voci per i paesaggi quotidiani, Editrice Compositori, 2011.
K. Lynch, L’immagine della città, Marsilio 1964.

C. W. Moore, W. J. Mitchel, W. Turnbull, The poetics of gardens, MIT Press, Cambridge-London 1988, trad. it. La poetica dei giardini, Muzzio Editore 1991.
F. Zagari, Questo è paesaggio – 48 definizioni, Gruppo Mancosu editore 2006.

V. Mcleod, Dettagli di Architettura del Paesaggio, Limond 2008.

- Recommended bibliography

E. Belfiore, Il verde e la città. Idee e progetti dal Settecento ad oggi, Gangemi Editore, 2005.

I. Cortesi, Il progetto del vuoto. Public space in motion 2000-2004, Alinea, 2004. 

I. Cortesi, Il Parco pubblico: paesaggi 1985-2000, Motta architettura, 2000.

G. Clément, Il giardino in movimento, Quodlibet 2011.

G. Donin, Parchi/Parks, Biblioteca del Cenide, 1999.

 J. Czerniak and G. Hargreaves, Large Parks, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.

A. Lambertini, Fare parchi urbani: etiche ed estetiche del progetto contemporaneo in Europa, Firenze University Press, 2006.

F. Manfredi, Linee nel paesaggio, Libria, 2021.

A. Metta, Paesaggi d'autore. Il Novecento in 120 progetti, Alinea 2008.

D. Pandakovic, Dal Sasso A., Saper vedere il paesaggio, Ed. CittàStudi, 2009.

- Recommended magazines​

Lotus Navigator n.2, 2001 “I Nuovi Paesaggi”.

Lotus Navigator n.5, 2002 “Fare l’ambiente”.

"Parque urbano", Paisea 002/2006.

"Parque urbano2", Paisea 017/2011.

"Parque urbano2", Paisea 032/2013.

Specific bibliographies will be provided progressively.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The examination will consist of a discussion of the design drawings. 

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Design drawings in uni A1 format (42.0 cm x 59.4 cm) with the following contents will be evaluated:

1 Context

2 Design references

3 Concept

4 Masterplan 1:1000

5 Plan 1:500

6 Plant Schemes (Abacus of botanical choices / cyclic and evolutionary variations)

7 Sections and profiles

8 Three-dimensional representations