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, Arst in his Museum, 1822 Class Website: hps://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916977 Textbook Wring 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 painng 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 Operaons, 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 Illustraon of Assyrian leer from (photo credit: Naonal Archives) Ashurbanipal's me Myscal 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 arst Marn Heemskerck What/ Where/ How? 17th Century depicon 20th Century depicon Gardens of Eden Ashurbanipal and the Sacred Tree Assyrian Emperor (ruled 668—627 BCE) Gardens: Geometrical Enclosed Areas of Water, Plants, and Shade Wall painng in Tomb of King Sennufer, Wall painng 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 Tenochtlan, 1524 CE Remnants of the lake and chinampas agricultural system of the Aztecs are sll visible in the park of Xochimilco. Teohuacán, 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 painng aributed to Tang Dai Hierophany Archetypes Cosmos Axis mundi • Pairidaeza- walled hunng park • Garden- enclosed retreat What do we do with these narraves? 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 PachacuQ Yupanqui (1438–1471) .