Contemporary Landscape Architecture Seminar

This lecture/seminar course explores the recent and contemporary debates in landscape architecture and concentrates on the discourses of urban design since the mid twentieth century and how contemporary urban debates led to current trends in practice. In this course, we will discuss theories, histories and practices that have shaped our understanding of landscape architecture and urban design. We will analyze the values implicit in each of their proposals, stressing the fact that urban design is not only a physical design process but a balancing of political, economic, cultural and physical factors that impact a place and its inhabitants. In this framework, the relationship between urban design, landscape architecture and planning will be discussed and the contemporary debates about the significance of these relationships will be studied further.

Interested in a certificate program? This course is part of the Urban Landscapes Certificate.