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. |
| Course description |
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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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