Postgraduate Course: Design: strategy and intervention (ARCH11172)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) | 
Availability | Available to all students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 40 | 
ECTS Credits | 20 | 
 
 
| Summary | A strategic design project made in response to a given brief in a European urban context which involves a short study tour. | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to Landscape Architecture. | 
 
| Additional Costs |  Field trip | 
 
 
Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None | 
 
		| High Demand Course? | 
		Yes | 
     
 
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Explore the creative potential of different fieldwork and analytical techniques demonstrating how the results of this process informs your inidivual conceptual thinking.
 - Demonstrate an advanced ability to communicate your design proposals through verbal, graphic, written and three dimensional techniques.
 - Develop complex and appropriate landscape framework proposals utilising spatial and compositional aspects, programmatic aspects and time based strategies.
 - Develop imaginative proposals in response to a set brief, for the rejuvenation of large and complex sites at a range of scales from landscape strategy to focused design intervention.
 
     
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Reading List 
Bunschoten R (2001) Urban Flotsum: stirring the city. 010, Rotterdam. 
Corner J (1999) Recovering Landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture. Princeton Arch. Press.  
Koolhaas R (1997) S, M, L, XL: small, medium, large, extra-large. Benedict Taschen. 
Koolhaas R (1994) Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan. Monacelli Press.  
Lynch K ( 1984) Good City Form. MIT Press. 
Lynch K (1960) The Image of the City. MIT Press. 
Waldheim, C (2006) The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princetown Architectural Press.  
 
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
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| Keywords | Not entered | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Ms Lisa MacKenzie 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5797 
Email: l.mackenzie@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mrs Anne Davis 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735 
Email: Anne.Davis@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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