Architecture and Landscape: Design Studio

The studio focusses on the garden (domain) scale of landscape architecture, as the most condensed form of (the ontological complex) landscape. The design project takes an in-depth look at physical landscape space, notions of context and human experience, landscapes dynamics and change, and planting design. The site has delineated boundaries, a specific scope of transformation and clearly defined ownership and operation. Integrating site and context (geographical, historical, cultural etc.) into the design forms a central motif for the assignment. Knowledge, skills and stances are developed in interpretations of a given landscape, working with landscape processes, conceptual design thinking, elaborating a landscape architectural (domain) composition, articulating the relationship between concept, composition and design details, planting design and ethical dimensions of landscape architecture.