Course detail

Landscape Architecture

FA-ZAAAcad. year: 2020/2021

The optional subject "Landscape architecture" resumes the basic disciplines dealing with the functional, organizational and spatial relationships at the level of the city and its parts. In classes and tutorials the students get acquainted with the past and present of landscape and garden art, with the interpretation of this discipline in its relation to urban design and architecture.
Of great importance for the practice of an architect and urban designer are the properties of the plant material and its use in a landscape design. Emphasis is also put on the principles and rules of planning, making and maintaining green spaces. In classes and tutorials students get acquainted with the best examples of implemented garden architecture, reconstructed gardens and parks and newly established green areas.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Department of Urban Design (UU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Not applicable.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Not applicable.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan and Susan Jellicoe. The landscape of man: shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day. 3. vyd. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. 408 s. ISBN 0-500-27819-9. (EN)
Holden, Robert. New landscape design today. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003. 192 s. ISBN 1 85669 290 6. Holden, Robert. New landscape design today. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003. 192 s. ISBN 1 85669 290 6. (EN)
Lynch, Kevin. Obraz města: The Image of the City. 1. vyd. Praha: Polygon, 2004. 204 s. ISBN 80-7273-094-0. (EN)
Mostaedi, Adrian. Landscape design today. Barcelona: Carles Broto & Josep Maria Minguet, 175 s. ISBN 84-89861-97-8. (EN)
Spens, Michael. Modern landscape. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. 239 s. ISBN 0 7148 4155 2. (EN)

Recommended reading

Gothein, Marie Luise. Geschichte der Gartenkunst, 1. a 2.díl, Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1926. (DE)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme ARCHURB Bachelor's

    branch ARCH , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme ARCHURB Master's

    branch ARCH , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme ARCHURB Master's

    branch ARCH , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer