This course introduces a design methodology for landscape architecture that emphasizes the design of living systems and dynamic landscape processes in dialogue with the environmental sciences. With a focus on translating and synthesizing scientific information through rigorous drawing and critically engaging with the primary matter of landscapes, this course teaches core tools of the discipline.
Learning objective
This design studio builds on a series of precise exercises that translate and synthesize the scientific information learned in the linked fundamental module courses required by the MScLA program. Through these exercises, students acquire essential analytical and methodological skills to support design in the field of Landscape Architecture.
Content
The Foundation Studio I in the autumn semester 2023 engages with a quarry site in Switzerland. Throughout the semester, students situate the local climatic, geologic, hydrological, pedological and vegetative processes in a larger context, and make proposals that respond to the specific material and ecological potentials of the site.
Course desk crits, pin-ups, site visits and reviews are generally scheduled in the afternoon, and are linked to the content covered in the lectures and other theoretical inputs from the morning fundamental course.
Lecture notes
The reader is handed out during the first week of the semester.
Literature
Relevant literature is included in the reader
Prerequisites / Notice
Final Critique: week of 18.12.2023-22.12.2023
The weekly schedule is published at the beginning of the semester and is included in the reader.
Classes and critiques are held in English.
No course 23th-27th of October 2023 (seminar week).