Undergraduate Course: Landscape Architecture Design 1A (ARCH08031)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course introduces MA students to the fundamental principles, skills, conventions, and theories of contemporary landscape architecture. |
| Course description |
Studio-based course introducing beginning MA students to the fundamental principles, skills, conventions, and theories of contemporary landscape architecture practice. Students are exposed to a wide variety of landscape architectural concepts through weekly and bi-weekly projects and reviews, and are supported through group and individual critiques by the instructor and invited reviewers.
Studio-based projects are supported by extended field work, lectures, tutorials, and seminars. These components of the course complement and support the parallel introductory courses ARCH08029 (Landscape Architecture Context 1) and ARCH07001 (Art and Design), and are aimed at helping students to articulate their own areas of concentration at higher levels, and culminating in the Year 4 Research/Design Dissertation.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Field trips (£30 approx.), drawing and modeling media, printing of materials to be presented and handed in |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 50 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30,
Fieldwork Hours 10,
Summative Assessment Hours 12,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
124 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Design Exercises (70%)
Sketchbook reviews (20%)
Oral/written presentations (10%)
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes:
Design Exercises relate to LO 1,2,3
Sketchbook reviews relate to LO 1,2
Oral/written presentations relate to LO1
Each of the three Learning Outcomes has equal weighting (1/3) |
| Feedback |
The first four presentations will be formative (whether in group or individual). During tutorials, students will also be given formative feedback, including a series of action points for subsequent stages.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate fundamental understanding of the principles of spatial design
- develop creative design proposal by demonstrating an essential understanding of design processes and methods involved
- demonstrate a fundamental ability to communicate spatial design and landscape conditions through graphic, verbal and written techniques
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Reading List
C. Dee, To Design Landscape: Art, Nature and Utility (Routledge, 2012)
C. Lanfranco, Site Divine: An Alternate Method of Site Analysis (Montag Press, 2008)
K. Lynch and G. Hack, Site Planning (MIT Press, 1984)
Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study (Houghton Mifflin, 1941/1969)
M. Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: Harper, 1990)
J. Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Wiley, 2009)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Graduates will demonstrate basic understanding of the principles, skills, conventions, history and theory of contemporary landscape architecture practice, and basic proficiency in representing landscape conditions, experience, and change. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Studio days: Mondays (9:00 ¿ 17:00) and Thursdays (9:00 ¿ 17:00). In these days, students are expected to be in the studio conducting independent work and should expect to be seen in either group or individual tutorials (between 30 mins and 1 hours) twice a week. |
| Keywords | landscape architecture design method,landscape architecture theory,landscape architecture history |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Thomas Oles
Tel:
Email: T.Oles@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Margaret Dingsdale
Tel: 0131 651 5803
Email: m.dingsdale@ed.ac.uk |
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