Summer Semester 2010/11
Summer Semester 2011/12
Summer Semester 2012/13
Garden Design AWII3017
COURSE CONTENT:
LECTURES: European and non-European traditions of garden design. Natural and artificial composition material. Contemporary trends in garden design. Interior gardens. Gardens in architectural neighborhood, especially integrated with small public buildings (including vertical and roof gardens). General principles of garden design and their formal diversity. Relations between outer and inner gardens.
DESIGN CLASS: Development and graphic rendering of the conception design of a garden (one of the following: an adjacent house garden, a garden near a public building, an interior garden), with respect to the existing and potential values of the architectural space.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
LECTURES: A student should know the professional notions, should be able to use them, distinguish design styles and comprehend basic facts related to the historical development of garden art.
DESIGN CLASS: A student should be able to design a small garden at conception stage.
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
Bibliography
a) basic references:
- Brookes J.: Garden Design. Dorling Kindersley, 2001.
- Brookes J.: The Garden Book. Doubleday, Sydney 1984.
- Hill P.: Contemporary history of garden design - European gardens between art and architecture. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2004.
- Waymark J.: Modern garden design - innovation since 1900. Thames and Hudson, London 2005.
b) supplementary references:
- Aspen R., de Wit S.: The énclosed garden: history and development of the hortus conclusus and its reintroduction into the present-day urban landscape. 010 Publishers, New York 1999, [also in:] http://books.google.pl/books?id=5ihAR9ASr4gC
- Bring M.: Japanese gardens : design and meaning. McGraw-Hill, New York 1981.
- Francis M., Reimann A.: The California landscape garden: ecology, culture, and design. University of California Press, Berkeley - Los Angeles - London 1999, [also in:] http://books.google.pl/books?id=Qs1Du4Da2jsC