After successful completion of the course, students are able to name the main lines of development in the history of landscape architecture based on their characteristics and to consider them as a context for current questions of open space planning. In particular, the view is sharpened for the relationship between phenomena of garden art and the history of landscape, environment and climate.

KIck off: 11.10. 9 Uhr, Seminarraum FOB Landscape

The course is dedicated to the history, structure, typology and use of open spaces in modern garden art. In addition to the phenomenology of the places, the main focus is on the landscape-topographical context of the large garden concepts and their related pictorial programs, in which the respective understanding of nature is also inscribed. While in medieval garden culture there is more of a theologically based relationship in the sense of a depiction function, the humanism of Renaissance culture stylizes itself as a topos of ancient rural life. With the comprehensive paradigm shift from the baroque garden to the natural style of the landscape garden, the iconographic orientation also changes, the ideal of the Golden Age is replaced by that of Arcadia. The pictorial programs of landscape and nature are to be questioned about their major connecting motifs and contextualized with the social and environmental history of the cultural landscape. Historical gardens understood as archives of the cultural landscape also takes into account the transfer and transformation processes.

comparative analysis, discussion, field trip

exam colloquium