Explorations (Landscape Studio 1)

This subject is not offered in 2013.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject introduces fundamental approaches for thinking about and exploration of landscape architecture. This studio explores ideas of presentation, design processes, and key theoretical concepts relating to contemporary landscape architectural design.

At the end of this subject students will be able to:

• Apply techniques for documenting, representing and analysing sites as cultural and physical space
• Discuss the scope and characteristics of contemporary landscape architecture;
• Understand design as a process; and
• Understand the connection between representation and design generation.

Assessment will be based on two design projects, including a seminar presentation, and the submission of a portfolio; to the equivalent of 5,000 words.

James Corner (1999). Recovering landscapes: essays in contemporary landscape architecture. Princeton Architectural Press.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Student will be expected to have:

• critical and spatial thinking;
• graphic representation;
• visual and oral presentation skills;
• understanding design processes.