Landscape architecture from ancient times to the present.
Emphasizes the relationship between landscape architecture and
culture, aesthetics, and the environment.
Athena Title
History of Built Environment I
Non-Traditional Format
Students attend three hours of lecture each week and take
exams, plus one additional hour of discussion each week dealing
with advanced readings in the field.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will identify movements and persons prominent in the development of design of the built environment and their major contributions to the development of the profession of landscape architecture.
Students will identify significant works of contributors within specified time frames.
Students will describe and compare various styles or historic periods of design activity and the guiding concepts or design principles that characterized them.
Students will identify the physical resource conditions and the social, cultural and economic conditions that shaped the designs.
Students will define various concepts, principles, techniques or features constituting an introductory vocabulary for design.
Topical Outline
Introduction
Ancient Period - Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman gardens
Medieval Period - Christian European monastic and castle gardens, urban spaces
Islamic Spanish and Middle Eastern gardens
Italian Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque gardens
French Renaissance chateaux gardens
French Baroque chateaux gardens and urban forms
English Tudor and Jacobean gardens
Romantic estate gardens and parks, urban spaces and parks
American Colonial - towns and gardens
American National - 19th-century town planning, civic design, public works, institutions, estate gardens
The creation of "Landscape Architecture"
Twentieth-century American Modernism in Landscape Architecture
Post-Modern landscape architecture
Institutional Competencies
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
