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Martha Schwartz Professor in Practice Department of Landscape Architecture |
Core Studios
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series of short design exercises explores the principles and conceptual strategies for organizing and articulating landscape spaces, surfaces, elements, and materials. Design proposals are developed and presented with drawings and models. Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design with: Paula Meijerink, Dorothee Imbert, George Hargreaves This course is the second of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, students expand their previous investigations into a more complex site and set of design problems. The studio is arranged into a series of independent but related exercises of increasing scale and varying relationships within the context of a university campus. In this design process, natural, temporal, and cultural phenomena inflect program, spatial configuration, and materials. Particular emphasis is placed on topographic manipulations and the use of vegetation as a tool of design. The studio seeks to relate subject matter and technique with courses in technology, planting design, drawing, and history.
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