Content (Syllabus outline)
Design Studio:
Transformation processes in cultural landscape and their consequences. Adaptation of rural areas to new economic and societal conditions and related possible new models of rural landscape (countryside). Definition of more general cultural landscape models in order to define relevant design practice. Sociological, nature conservation and economical aspects of optimal structure of cultural landscape. Course emphasis is in studio work with highly complex projects (in terms of spatial problems and landscape structures). Large scale concepts and solutions in a filed of renovation of productive landscapes, reclamations of derelict landscapes caused by large infrastructure projects and reconstructions of large rural areas including village renovations and ruined natural areas, etc.
Planning Studio:
Developing different types of planning documents; from strategic to implementation plans. Typology of spatial planning documents, development concept, guidelines for development, land use and management concepts for countryside, protected areas; individual development proposals.
Prerequisites
- General requirements for 2nd year of MLA and completed exams in Theory of Landscape Design.
- Student must have positive grade of submitted studio projects and written paper.
In Design Studio: completed exam in Theory of Landscape Design and all previous design studios.
In Planning Studio: completed exam in Landscape Systems Evaluation, Theory and Methods of Landscape Planning and all previous studios.