The past 20 years Landscape Architecture has received a renewed interest and the subject has grown into an important support for urbanism. Students will be introduced to ecological challenges related to the (urban) landscape. Topics addressed will range from microclimatological facts to what if-studies regarding raising tides.

Students attending this cours will have gained insight in the urban landscape's ecological vocabulary, methods and challenges.

The course offers both lectures and seminars.

Lectures will focus on ecological challenges for the contemporary urban landscape.

The seminars will focus on discussing the ongoing assignment.

Students will be given an assignment where they are asked to investigate a particular case-study of their own choice. Students are encouraged to examine examples within contemporary urban landscape arvhitecture and relate these to the ecological challenge. The students will be asked to present their research work as 45 minutes PPI presentation. An external jury will be present at this presentation. The presentation will count for 45 % of the course grade.

The course is assessed as Pass - Fail, subject to the Regulations for Master's degree programs at AHO, § 6-14

Mandatory reading

Text on landscape ecology will be handed out in connection with the given lectures.

Waldheim, C. (2006). The Landscape urbanism reader. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Recommended reading

A bibliography containing titles of essays, books and articles concerning contemporary landscape architecture will be handed during the seminars.

Almy, D. (2007). On landscape urbanisme. Austin, Tex.: Center for American Architecture and Design.

Bava, H., Hoessler, M., Philippe, O., & Diedrich, L. (2009). Territories: from landscape to city. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Corner, J. (1999). Recovering landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Cosgrove, D. (1999). Mappings. London: Reaktion Books.

Daily, G. C., & Ellison, K. (2002). The new economy of nature: the quest to make conservation profitable. Washington: Island Press.

Desvigne, M., Tiberghien, G. A., Basdevant, M., & Costedoat, D. (2009). Intermediate natures: the landscapes of Michel Desvigne. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Lassus, B. (1998). The landscape approach. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Latour, B. (2004). Politics of nature: how to bring the sciences into democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press.

Margolis, L., & Robinson, A. (2007). Living systems: innovative materials and technologies for landscape architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser.

McHarg, I. L. (1992). Design with nature. New York: J. Wiley.

Schama, S. (1995). Landscape and memory. London: HarperCollins.

Spirn, A. W. (1984). The granite garden: urban nature and human design. New York: Basic Books.

Swaffield, S. (2002). Theory in landscape architecture: a reader. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Weiss, A. S. (1998). Unnatural horizons: paradox and contradiction in landscape architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Tidsskrifter:

Archis

Conditions

Daidalos

JoLA (Journal of Landscape Architecture)

JoLA (E-tidsskrift)

New geographics

´scape: the Inernational Magazine for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

Topos

Topos (E-tidsskrift)

Nettsider:

LE:NOTRE

LE:NOTRE°Mundus (Le Notres non-european partners network)

ECLAS (The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools)

ELASA (European Landscape Architecture Students Association)

NLA (Norwegian Landscape Arhitects Association)

IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects)

European Urban Landscape Partnership