Course detail
Landscape Architecture
FA-ZAA-TEAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course builds on core urban design courses dealing with functional, operational, and spatial relations. In the lectures students are introduced to the development of landscape and garden art, the current concepts of the discipline and its relation to urban design and architecture. The lectures and seminars are also focused on comprehensive design of urban environment, i.e. on paved surfaces, street furniture, water features and works of art. The emphasis is on the use of plants in urban design and the principles and rules of using greenery in design. In the lectures and seminars students are acquainted with inspirational realisations of city and landscape environment.
In the study programmes “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the theoretical courses.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Offered to foreign students
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Aims
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
DUNNETT Nigel and James HITCHMOUGH. The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting. London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2004. 336 p. ISBN 978-0415438100. (EN)
DUNNETT Nigel and Noel KINGSBURY. Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls. Portland: Timber Press, 2008. 256 p. ISBN 978-0881929119. (EN)
DUNNETT Nigel. Naturalistic Planting Design: The Essential Guide. Bath: Filbert Press, 2019. 240 p. ISBN 9780993389269. (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)
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)
LYNCH, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960. ISBN 9780262620017 (EN)
MOSTAEDI, Adrian. Landscape design today. Barcelona: Carles Broto & Josep Maria Minguet, 175 s. ISBN 84-89861-97-8. (EN)
Piet OUDOLF. Planting the natural garden. Portland: Timber Press, 2019. 288 p. ISBN 978-1604699739 (EN)
SPENS, Michael. Modern landscape. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. 239 s. ISBN 0 7148 4155 2. (EN)
WALLINGTON Jack. Wild about Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants. Laurence King Publishing, 2019. 176 p. ISBN 978-1786275301 (EN)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme NE_A+U Master's
specialization --- (till 2022) , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme BX_A+U Bachelor's
branch ARCH , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N_A+U Master's
specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (do 2022) , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme B_A+U Bachelor's
specialization --- (do 2022) , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme ARCHURB Bachelor's
branch ARCH , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme NE_A+U Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (till 2022) , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme B_A+U Bachelor's
specialization --- (do 2022) , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
4 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. The development of landscape architecture and garden art II (gardens of the 19th century – formal garden, collection and introduction of new plant species, city park)
3. The development of landscape architecture and garden art III (organic and modernist gardens, outdoor room, gardens designed to be viewed from above, gardens in the natural environment, structural gardens)
4. Application of natural elements in human settlements and their meaning for sustainable development
5. Detail in the present-day landscape design
6. Land art in landscape design
7. Work on design assignment