| Third Semester
Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
GSD 1211, Core Studio, Fall
with: Scheri Fultineer, Christian Werthmann, Nicholas Pouder,
Carl Steinitz
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions
of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core
studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed on precision
and craft in conceptual, schematic, and design development abilities.
Issues of the physical, socioeconomic, technological, architectural,
and ideological forces underlying the organization and form of
human communities are incorporated into a series of projects.
These range from the complex reading and mapping of the city,
the development and testing of innovative program strategies in
unconventional sites, and the development of design ideas to the
advanced schematic stage. At each stage, students are expected
to reconcile the sometimes conflicting characteristics among land
resources, development pressures, privacy, and commonality. Throughout,
a strong reciprocity between depth of thinking and the act of
making is sought.
Objectives:
- To gain a critical understanding of the issues, influences,
and generative possibilities in landscape design and planning
within the contemporary urban environment.
- To provide a bridge between the concerns of landscape theory
and individual design practices. The need for a theoretical
basis for action within the shifting and complex nature of the
communities we form and inhabit will be explored. Investigations
of the nature, meaning, and social role of public and private
spatial orders are examined.
- To identify concerns for human settlement within the dynamics
of urban ecology. The processes of growth, transformation, and
the complex layering of ownership, density, distribution, and
territoriality are explored.
- To develop and refine both analytical and analogical skills
in the interpretation, representation, and production of landscape
architectural design and planning.
Instructors:
Each studio critic works directly with a small group of students
for the duration of the semester. A combination of faculty, practicing
landscape architects and visiting critics are selected each semester.
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