Landscape Design History II

3.0 credits · Graduate

This is an introductory survey of the history and theory of landscape design, broadly defined to include diverse forms of planned human interventions in built and natural environments. We will consider a wide range of planned human interventions in both formal and informal landscapes of the past, including but not limited to aesthetic, functional, and ecological outcomes. Our primary focus will be on landscape design and planning developments from the 17th to late 20th century, placing North American sites and trends in relation to a hemispheric and global context of social, cultural, economic, political, and scientific forces. Critical concepts, sites, and conditions across time, space, and scale are explored through weekly topical lectures, creative exercises, discussions, readings, and essays.