Course Description
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 2510
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students who complete the course will have the ability to: Define a set of concepts, principles, techniques, and physical features that constitutes a basic vocabulary for environmental planning and design. 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. Describe, analyze, and compare various historic styles and periods of environmental planning and design. Identify and describe the environmental, social, cultural, and economic conditions that shaped various historic styles and periods of environmental planning and design. Analyze and critique the visual and spatial qualities of exemplary works of environmental design through writing and simple diagramming. Infer and interpret how human history and cultural traditions shape present-day built environments and contemporary environmental design practices.
Topical Outline
•Introduction. •Landscapes of Prehistoric and Ancient Peoples. •Landscape Design in the Classical World: Ancient Greece and Rome. •Environmental Design in the Islamic World. •Urban Form and Gardens in Medieval Christian Europe. •Renaissance Landscape and Urban Design in Italy and France. •Baroque Landscape and Urban Design in France and Beyond. •Environmental Design Traditions in China and Japan. •Pre-Columbian Environmental Design in the Americas. •The Development of the English Landscape Garden. •Landscape Planning and Design in Colonial North America. •19th-century Urban Landscapes and the Development of Landscape Architecture: Cemeteries, Suburbs, Parks, and Parkways. •Early 20th-century Environmental Design: The City Beautiful Movement, National Parks, the “Prairie Style,” and Estate Gardens. •Modernism and City Planning: Garden Cities Movement, Le Corbusier, Regional Planning Association of America. •Modernist Garden Design in Europe and America. •Post-modern Landscape Design.
General Education Core
CORE IV: Humanities and the ArtsSyllabus