Content (Syllabus outline)

Historical overview of landscape design. Prehistoric cult landscapes as the beginning of human transformation of land. Socio-cultural definition of landscape architecture. Egypt and Antiquity. The world of Islam. Naturalistic and symbolic garden structures of China and Japan. Landscape movement in 18th century England. Geometrical orders of western civilization, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque. Eclecticism of the 19th century. Modern, post-modern and contemporary landscapes. Landart. Brief overview of historic parks and gardens in Slovenia.

Prerequisites

a) regular admission
b) completed and positively graded seminar works