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The seminar aims to explore how the physical, material and conceptual understanding
of landscape can enrich current forms of architectural and urban design practice,
and to introduce landscape thinking into student's design vocabularies. Given
that topography and ecology are two discourses that increasingly impinge on
the fields of architecture and urban design today, it may be argued that landscape
in the broadest sense of the term begins to assume a new stature as a design
discipline, both literally and metaphorically. This is particularly apparent
where landform and built form are combined together in infrastructural interventions
at an urban or regional scale.
Class meetings will alternate between two types. One type works with readings
drawn from landscape architecture, ecology, and geography. These sessions will
be punctuated by a series of invited lectures, given by thinkers and practitioners,
in order to provide a survey of contemporary theory and built work.
Seminar 1 Introduction: the landscape idea
Sept 03
Reading:
Angelil and Klingmann, 'Hybrid Morphologies: Infrastructure, Architecture, Landscape'
in Daidalos 73, 1999.
Frampton, K. "Toward an Urban Landscape" Columbia Documents Volume
4
Cosgrove, Dennis. "The Idea of Landscape" Social Formation and Symbolic
Landscape, New Jersey 1985.
Marx, L. 'The American Ideology of Space' in Denatured Visions
Seminar 2 Mapping Terrains
Sept 10 the map as a tool for sharing scientific, spatial, and cultural information.
Reading:
Cosgrove, D. Introduction, 'Mapping Meaning'
Corner, J. Chapter 10, the Agency of Mapping' in Mappings
Burns, C. 'On Site: Architectural Preoccupations'
Reference Projects: Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, McLean &
Corner
Biodiversity and Landscape Planning: Camp Pendelton, Stenintz et al.
Long Range Planning for Harvard University, OMA/AMO
Seminar 3 Landscape and Infrastructure in New York City
Sept 17
Reading:
Rybczynski, W. A Clearing in the Distance: F.L. Olmsted and America in the 19th
Century, 163-186
Caro, R. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, 368-385
Reference Projects: Central Park, Olmsted
Jones Beach, Riverside Park, Moses
Seminar 4 'The Regional Plan'
Sept 24 Thomas Wright and Robert J. Pirani, RPA *Invited Lecture*
Reading:
Yaro R. and Hiss T., 'Region at Risk: The 3rd Regional Plan for the New York
- New Jersey - Connecticut Metropolitan Area' Island Press, 1996.
Seminar 5 'Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Globalization'
Oct 01 Cynthia Rosenzweig and Bill Solecki *Invited Lecture*
Reading:
Rosenzweig and Solecki eds. Climate Change and a Global City: The Potential
Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, New York, Columbia Earth Institute,
2001.
Seminar 6 Current Landscape & Transportation Initiatives
in Europe
Oct 08 Brian Richards *Invited Lecture*
Reading:
Richards, Brian. Future Transport in Cities, Spon, London, 2001.
Seminar 7 'Toxic Beauty'
Oct 15 Julie Bargmann D.I.R.T. *Invited Lecture*
Reading:
to be announced
Seminar 8 Ecological Processes & Brownfield Remediation
Oct 22
Reading:
Smithson, Robert. 'Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape'
Czernak, Julia. 'Challenging the Pictorial: Recent Landscape Practice'
Howett, Catherine 'Ecological Values in 20th Century Landscape Design'
Reference Projects:
Byxbee Park, Guadalupe Riverfront Park, Hargreaves Assoc.
Vintondale Mine, D.I.R.T.
Duisberg Nord, PeterLatz & Partner
Seminar 9 Urban Infrastructure
Oct 29
Reading:
'Hyperrealistic Shock Therapy' Interview w/Adriaan Geuze
Berrizbeitia and Pollak, Inside Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape,
1999. p.152-174
Allen, Stan 'Infrastructural Urbanism' in Scroope 9
Mostafavi, M. 'Urbanism as Landscape' AA FILES 42
Lootsma, Bart. 'West 8 and the Dutch Landscape' in Het Landschap. Four International
Landscape Designers, deSingel exhibition catalogue, 1995.
Projects:
Blue Ridge Parkway
Allegheny Riverfront Park, MVVA
Bievre Valley Rail Line, Andre Chemetoff
TGV landscapes, Desvigne & Dalnoky
Seminar 10 ELECTION DAY NO CLASS
Nov 05
Seminar 11 Urban Transformations
Nov 12 landscape as tool to regenerate the image and identity of the city
Reading:
Girot, Christophe. 'Towards a Landscape Society'
Pollak, L. 'City-Architecture-Landscape'
Reference Projects:
Paris, Lyons, Barcelona, Osaka, Zhuhai Seminar 12 'Urbanism without Architecture'
Nov 19 Bob Somol *Invited Speaker*
Reading: Somol, Robert E. 'Afterword' in Stan Allen/Points + Lines : Diagrams
and Projects for the City, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
Seminar 13 Conclusion
Nov 26 Student Presentations and Discussion w/K. Frampton
Reading
Frampton K. 'Catalytic City'
Frampton, K. “Megaform as Urban Landscape” Lecture 1999
Course Requirements:
Students are expected to do all of the assigned reading, to actively participate
in class discussion,
and to prepare questions for invited speakers. Students will be asked to work
in teams of 2-3 to
present an investigation and critical understanding, to include drawings and
text, of one urban landscape project. Some class time will be dedicated to desk
crits on this exercise. Students will also be asked to prepare a series of brief
issues papers based on reactions to the specific readings and lecturers. All
lectures & schedule subject to change.
Additional readings will be assigned from these texts:
Venturi Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972
McHarg, Ian. Design With Nature, 1969
Wrede, Stuart Adams ed. Dentatured Visions MOMA New York, 1991.
Zapatka, C. The American Landscape, 1995.
Corner, James, ed. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture,
1999.
REFERENCE READINGS
Brunier, Yves. Landscape Architect Paysagiste, Birkhauser 1996.
Cosgrove, Dennis. "The Idea of Landscape" Social Formation and Symbolic
Landscape, New Jersey 1985.
US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, 'Constructed Wetlands for
Wastewater Treatment and Wildlife Habitat,' 17 Case Studies
.
Geuze, Aadrian. 'Accelerating Darwin'
"Hargreaves: Landscape Works," PROCESS: Architecture 128, Tokyo,
Japan, January 1996.
Ho, Cathy Lang. "Waste Not, Want Not: Can Damaged Landscapes Be Salvaged?"
Architecture, v. 89, n. 11, Nov. 2000, p. 80-8, 149 (photos, sketches, site
plans).
Keeney,Gavin. "Post-industrial Chic: Plant and D.I.R.T.," Oculus,
v.63, n. 2, Oct. 2000, p. 16-17 (photos, site plans, drawings).
Kwinter,Sanford. 'Landscapes of Change' , in Assemblage 19, and Architectures
of Time, 2001.
Steinitz, Carl. Biodiversity and Regional Planning, Alternative Futures for
the Region of Camp Pendelton, 1996.
Treib, Marc. Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review, MIT 1993.
Tschumi, B. "Spaces and Events" Questions of Space (London 1990)
The Productive Park: New Waterworks as Neighborhood Resources, The Architectural
League of New York and Princeton Architectural Press, Brown and Morrish, 1994.
Allen, Stan. "Diagrams Matter," in ANY 23: Diagram Work, Fall 1998.
Key texts:
Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi Scott-Brown
Design with Nature, McHarg
Wrede, Stuart Adams ed. Dentatured Visions MOMA New York, 1991.
Corner, James., ed. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture,
1999.
Koolhaas, R. "Urban Operations" Columbia Documents Volume 3
Treib, Marc. 'Form, Reform and American Landscape Architecture' in Het Landschap,
Four International Landscape Designers, deSingel exhibition catalogue, 1995.
Student Presentations
Sea Ranch, CA
Riverside IL (Olmsted)
Bos Park, Amsterdam
Barcelona Redevelopment Plan
The Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia 1932-36
Chandigargh. Le Corbusier
Pittsburgh Waterfront MVVA
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