Guest Lectures Seminar Concepts of Landscape 2010
Theories and Concepts of Landscape
- October 19, 2010 | Dóra Drexler: European Landscape Perceptions. Understanding our thinking about landscapes in Europe
Vita:
Dóra Drexler is a Hungarian landscape architect. She studied at the Corvinus University of Budapest and the Technical University of Munich. She has acquired her Ph.D. in 2010 at the Department of Landscape Ecology of the Technical University of Munich. Her research topic was the cultural-historical analysis and comparison of the landscape perceptions in England, France, Germany and Hungary. Dóra received the scholarship of the Hungarian Republic, she was a fellow of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU) and the Free State of Bavaria.
Dóra is currently working as a freelance landscape architect in Budapest.
Lecture contents:
This presentation gives a brief overview of the European ideas of landscape, their historical roots, special characteristics, and current relevance for the landscape architectural practice. The students will be introduced to the cultural-historical research approach to landscape. They will be actively involved in reflecting on the ideals guiding our landscape perceptions and appreciation.
- October 19, 2010 | Galen Newman: AMERICAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN THEORY: An Evolving Body of Knowledge
Vita:
- Ph.D. of Planning, Design, and the Built Environment from Clemson University: Clemson, SC: Aug., 2010
- Master of Landscape Architecture from Auburn University, Auburn, AL May, 2006
- Master of Community Planning from Auburn University: Auburn, AL May, 2006
- Bachelors of Environmental Design from Auburn University: Auburn, AL May, 2004
"My current teaching experience encompasses all scales of design but primarily emphasizes urban and community scaled projects. While my academic background consists of a community planning degree concentrating on urban design and biophysical relationships, a landscape architecture degree concentrating on cultural landscape studies, and a Ph.D. which crossed disciplines and assessed correlations between land preservation and infrastructural preservation, my teaching specializations concentrate on advanced representation techniques through multiple (mostly digital) media, and studio and seminar formatted classes."
Lecture contents:
The theoretical foundation of American landscape architecture is a kaleidoscope of ideologies inherited and adapted from other cultures. This creates a situation where the profession is reliant on multiple theoretical premises rather than a singular formula for all design schemes. Landscape Architecture, in America, has then taken on a position that landscape is a system of processes and the design of these systems is a problem solving technique which is based on the premise that quality of life for individuals and society benefits from the creation of harmonious and mutually supportive relationships between people and the environment. Each generation is charged to pass the landscape on in a better condition to their inheritors.
Future Landscapes
- November 23, 2010 | Simon Bell:
- November 23, 2010 | Fernando Martinez Agustoni: