Landscape architecture from ancient times to the present.
Emphasizes the relationship between landscape architecture and
culture, aesthetics, and the environment.
Athena Title
History Built Environ I Landsc
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LAND 2510E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to define a set of concepts, principles, techniques, and physical features that constitutes a basic vocabulary for environmental planning and design.
Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to identify significant movements and prominent persons in the history of the built environment and in the development of the professions of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning.
Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to describe, analyze, and compare various historic styles and periods in the history of environmental planning and design, and the guiding principles that characterized them.
Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to identify and describe the environmental, social, cultural, and economic conditions that shaped various historic styles and periods of environmental planning and design.
Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to analyze and critique the visual and spatial qualities of exemplary works of environmental design through writing and simple diagramming.
Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to infer and interpret how human history and cultural traditions shape present-day built environments and contemporary environmental design practice.
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
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture CORE IV: Humanities and the Arts
