LARC 352 History of Landscape Architecture Autumn Quarter, 2009 Instructor
LARC 352 History of Landscape Architecture Autumn Quarter, 2009
Instructor: Thaïsa Way PhD T.A.: Dan Jost Landscapes Local/ Global COURSE PROSPECTUS
Class Hours: Lectures: Monday/ Wednesday 9:00-10:20, Gould 322
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Thaisa Way office hours: M 10:30-11:30, 348 Gould Hall contact: [email protected]
TEACHING ASSISTANT: Daniel Jost, MLA Candidate office hours: Thursday, 5:45-7:00 pm, Gould Café contact: [email protected]
Charles Wilson Peale, Ar st in his Museum, 1822 Class Website: h ps://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916977
Textbook Wri ng Assignment Deadlines Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (2001) • Assignment 1: October 6 Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History of • Assignment 2: October 27 Landscape Architecture. New York: Harry Abrams. • Assignment 3: December 8 Readings- available online and at • Revisions: December 8 Professional Copy, on Univ. Way • NO FINAL EXAM
Weekly Quizes Best out of 9/10 every week Includes lectures and readings History of Landscape Architecture Why? Shaping of Space Meaning of Place
Wall pain ng of a Taj Mahal, garden, tomb in Agra, India, Thebes, Valley of c. 1631- the Kings c. 1400 1648 BCE (Rogers p. 38) Where do ideas come from?
Central Park, New York, 1858 Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux
High Line, Field Opera ons, Piet Monastery (Abbey of Saint Gall) Oudolf, and Diller, Scofidio, + Renfro, Switzerland, c. 820 2006-2014 Cultural history Cultural history
Versailles, Paris, c. 1668 The Forbidden City, Beijing, Architecture by Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun; Landscape designed by Andre Le Notre China, 1406-1420 Human Behavior: Meaning of Place Through Use of Space
Pétanque in the Jardin du Luxembourg, 2006
Radburn park, New Jersey, M.S. Cautley, 1928 Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672 Gardens as Places in History
Time in History/ Place in the World Mesopotamia: Egypt to Armenia with Anatolia Topography and Place History of the Environment What do we learn?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon Ruins Illustra on of Assyrian le er from (photo credit: Na onal Archives) Ashurbanipal's me Mys cal or A Method of Agricultural? Inquiry
The Black TaJ Mahal?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Semiramis) Nebuchadnezzar II ? 6th C BC? On the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq?
“The approach to the Garden sloped like a hillside and the several parts of the structure rose from one another er on er... On all this, the earth had been piled... and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the beholder... The water machines [raised] the water in great abundance from the river, although no one outside could see it.” Diodorus Siculus
16th-century Dutch ar st Mar n Heemskerck What/ Where/ How?
17th Century depic on 20th Century depic on Gardens of Eden
Ashurbanipal and the Sacred Tree Assyrian Emperor (ruled 668—627 BCE)
Gardens: Geometrical Enclosed Areas of Water, Plants, and Shade
Wall pain ng in Tomb of King Sennufer, Wall pain ng of a garden, tomb in Thebes, Egypt, (Dynasty XVIII, New Thebes, Egypt, c. 1400 BCE (Rogers p. 38) Kingdom), c. 1,450-1,372 BCE TEL-EL-AMARNA Royal Villa, c. 1350 BCE
Karnak, Egypt Temple of Amun-Ra, c.1400 BCE; expanded c.1250 BCE Hatshepsut’s funerary temple at Deir el Bahri, ca. 1450 BCE
Cortez map of Tenoch tlan, 1524 CE Remnants of the lake and chinampas agricultural system of the Aztecs are s ll visible in the park of Xochimilco. Teo huacán, near Mexico City, view from Pyramid of the Moon down Avenue of the Dead. Pyramid of Sun, seen on le , Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D. Axonometric of Avenue of the Dead: Citadel and Temple of Quetzalcoatl at southwest end; Pyramid of the Moon at northeast end
Pliny’s Villas
PLINYS VILLA (Tuscany)
PLINYS VILLA (Laurentum) A Habit of the Mind A Language of Place Plato’s Grove of the Academy, early 4th 3 Yuanming Gardens, Beijing, 1744, century B.C. E. wall pain ng a ributed to Tang Dai Hierophany Archetypes Cosmos Axis mundi • Pairidaeza- walled hun ng park
• Garden- enclosed retreat What do we do with these narra ves?
How do we read designed landscapes? How has the design of landscape reflected ideas about nature and culture throughout history? How has the role of a designer been manifested in the design of landscapes across cultures and history? Machu Picchu, villa complex of Inca Pachacu Yupanqui (1438–1471)