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PROJECT
[Candidate Selections
/ Varied durations] |
TOPIC/ THEORY (Cumulative sequence) |
ASSIGNMENT
(See itemized sheets) |
REFR |
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INTRODUCTION
&
OVERVIEW
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· “Conceptualizing the ‘Landscape Architectural Realm’”
§ Philosophical --Existence/ meaning/ value (extrinsic & intrinsic).
Design prelude --Meta-Models: interpretation/ projection.
(Theory laden observation; paradigms; creativity.
--Human faculties: percept ion sensation / emotion/
thought & concepts “intuition”
--Design: Aesthetics/ science/ other theories.
--Logical structure: tree-hierarchy, cross-cut, net,
broken-lattice; fractal; episodic; deconstructive.
--Mereolgy: part/ relation/ whole; Synergy/ entropy.
(single/ plural/ total; Unity/ complexity; order/ chaos)
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· Scope awareness: Type projects & connections throughout scales
of Land Arch Design continuum: ‘Intimate to global’.
· ‘Design Process’: “Left & Right” brain ideation ‘methods’ controversy;
Creative experimentation & openness; “Framing”.
Analysis/ Synthesis; Design phases:
· Drawing Types: Conceptual/ prelim & final design presentations/
models/ working drawings: In plan/ sect/ elevation;
Axonometric/ isometric/ perspective; Overlays.
· History & Theory: Survey resources; Landmarks; Paradigms; Patterns;
periods/ styles/ individuals. (eg Postmodernism vs
modernism culture). Hist re-interpretation & critique. |
Prepare a brief sketch inventory of your own favorite designs from past id/ architecture studios. Save for future in-class study exercises.
Introduction: Write a brief overview of your own design philosophy, & diagram your theoretical design model. (This will be returned on last day of classes for student to compare continuities & changes).
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[Note: For all projects, see: Handouts; Student work; Land Arch Mg
Process (s) Bk;
Timesaver Std
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Simmonds
Universal Traveler
Reid
Walker
Mann
Jenks |
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2
THE
SINGLE SPACE
GARDEN
(Abstract context) |
· “The Essentials of Landscape Architecture”
· Space: “Qualitative Spatial Experience”: its nature & requirements.
Archetypes: rectilinear, circle-tangent, bio/ hydro/ geomorphic.
Degree/ type enclosed-fenestrated; orientation; pos/ neg rel;
Historic theories / relevance of space; 1-4 D Modes; Postmod;
· Materials: As ‘enclosures’ (floor/ wall/ ceilings); As ‘objects’;
(form/ pattern/ texture/ tone, transparent/ lucent; re distance).
Plants: (exterior & interior species); habitat, requirements.
Landform: Purposes & nature; “Basic topographic form-types”
Structures: Buildings; wall types, trellis/ arbor, pergola; pools
decks; patios/ walkways/ drives- (Brick/ stone/
concrete/ asphalt). [Basic construction principles]
Special Aspects: sun, wind, (climate), scent, tactile.
· Human: Perception (formal), sensation, emotion (expression),
cognition (thought, represent.)— interactive w social/cultural.
Behavioral/ Motion types (activity/ choreography).
Function/ eco/biol-sustenance/; Protection. Prospect-refuge.
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[Sketch Project (or model)]
Create a polemic of single space gardens—based on variations of plants, landform, built structures, special features:
2-A) Two projects in a ‘Minimalist’
version. “Less as more”.
Influenced by Volpe.
2-B) Two in a ’Complex ‘version:
Of species, gardenesque
layering, triangulation,
accents, background, frame.
(See gestalt eye movement).
Influenced by Moser
Plan & section-elevation sketch presentation; (Label species).
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Garden Design
(See also for multiple space & all resid des).
Goldfinger .
Volpe Theory 1
Moser Theory 1
Plants: exterior;
Van Geison / Gaines: interior
Sunset-type materials book.
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3
THE
MULTIPLE SPACE
GARDEN
(Abstract context) |
· “Wholistic Garden Design”: Synergistic S/ M/ H ‘Systems’--
for emergent quality experience-- moving through space-time.
· Ways of “Truth is in the whole” / “God is in the details”;
‘Synergy’ as magic: Gestalt science bio & physics/ art,/ spiritual aspects
((See logical structure. Part implies whole, whole implies part”.
· Aspects: Aesthetic, functional, constructional wholistic systems
· Design Process: Ideate, interpret, clarify, articulate //adorn //counter;
“Concept”; Abstraction & layering; Motion; Form/pattern/ texture/ tone.
· Formal Archetypes: generators: (+ - x ); X Mass/ Space; fld/ grnd
Elements (point, line, plane, volume)
Compounds (eg double node corridor; serial; central; ring; planar etc)
Complexes, Overlays, Continuums
· Explicate/ poeticize 'relations' between space; linguist focus/ tense interp.
· Minimal & complex planting versions.
· Interconnections trough; Theme/ Variation; deconstruction |
[Sketch Project (or model)]
Create polemic of two wholistic ‘multiple-space’ gardens (as above).
a) Bubble diagram schematics
(follow phases; show colored
abstract overlays for systems)
b) Plan & section
(Label elements)
* Sculpture, performance options. |
Volpe Theory-2
GSD Publish
Ching
Clark/Pause
Thiel (notation)
Condon, Krier.
Moore (‘Poetics of Gardens’, with category abstractions)
Jellicoe (Hist)
Klee (Pedig)
Halprin (space; choreography) |
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3
(THREE-AS-ONE):
HOUSE-INTERIOR / PATIO-GARDEN /
OFFSITE CONTEXT |
· “Venn Narratives” (The Power of Cross-space Ideation)
· One idea across many spaces: interior(s), exterior property divisions,
the far-exterior, and the imagined beyond unseen context.
(Spatial, material & use interrelations; illusion. Connections to reap).
· Formal relations; Explosion / implosion; repetition, merging, transition
interlock, dialogue & dialectic). |
[Full Project]
Cross-space contextual scale/ local ideation diagram.
Plan & section (interior to exterior). |
Progressive Architecture |
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A TOTAL
RESIDENCE
Selected site &
Client -profile |
· “Complete Site & Garden Design” (Determinants & Creation)
· Existing-Site analysis; Client // Program.
· House: Architectural concept; locating the house on the property.
· Landscape: vehicular; pedestrian walk & special hard space; green-
space/ garden/ woodland Special planting; effective creative landform.
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[Full Project]
Conceptual alternatives.
Presentation plan with labeled
plantings/ list; landform features;
structural layout/ form, planting,
Longitudinal & lateral sections
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Rudenstien
USGS
Volpe;
Van Valkenburgh
Eckbo, Kiley, Rose; Church
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POET’S
GARDEN |
· “Landscape as Language”: (Layering Symbolic Meaning)
· Semiotic Reference: Simile, metaphor, analogy, allegory, symbol, icon.
· Literary tropes: irony, paradox, hyperbole, litotes, iteration;
· Logical tropes: contradiction, contrariness, contraposition, rhyme.
· Syntaxes. |
[Exercise project]
Write some garden ideas; sketch diagrams. Add-option ideas for sculptures; buildings.
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Abrahms
Moriarty Spirn
Alexander
Hargreaves; Walker Swartz
Bachelard |
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RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY PARK |
· “Creating a ‘Neighborhood’”: (Open-Space/ Mixed-
Housing/ Recreation Subdivision providing for ways of Life).
· Neighborhood as physical / sociology. Political overviews.
Proxemic/ distemic space; public/ private, active/ passive beh transitions.
· Archtypes: diverse housing (single/ duplex/ cluster); open space
hierarchy types / vehicular strategies /& calculation;
Special pattern language (typologies).
· Ecology/ Sustainability; fixed/ open-ended complexity.
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[Exercise project]
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Utopias & new- town collection
Newman &
Greenbee
Alexander
Andres / Plat Z.
Condon
Untermann
Dichiara |
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HOTEL COMMISSION
(Alternate project:
Corporate Complex)
(Comprehensive)
Selected sites/ by photo |
· “Multiple-Scale Design”: relation of concepts across &
between different scales-- [a formal / semantic narrative).
Marking different scales, and how they interrelate & inform each other.
Push / pull; Top down/ bottom up.
· The great context interpretation (as a ‘concept’ of existing region/ off site)
· The whole site as an idea. Program
· Site parts (building design; all exterior site elements
· Interior subparts …
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[Primary Full project]
a) 5000 Scale Contextual
concept (Interpretation of
region, and how the hotel
intervention is contributive
part of regional setting).
b) 100 Scale Site Plan/ Sect :
(building concept; vehicular;
pedestrian walks, hard/soft
spaces, ret pond, amenities)
c) Interior Atrium garden @ 10
scale: layout & planting
plans; working drw/ sections
c’) Dinning room options.
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SWA
EDAW
Gaines
Austin |
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CAMPUS DESIGN |
· “High-Programmatic Master Planning Process”
· Research-study: college-design prototypes in history
· Analysis: site & client / special data
· Programming: creating a Mission Statement, and what follows.
· Academic/ residential/ administrative/ athletic/ fine arts-performance;
(with criteria & relational schematics).
· Concept-Integration: physical ideation of buildings outdoor hard & green
space systems; vehicular hierarchy/ parking types; planting/ arboretum;
basic use of water /landform amenities;
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[Team “charrette presentation”]
a) Class “research”/ analysis
presentation;
b) Proposals (3 boards/ team):
Generic Site select ion
Idea development diagrams.
100 Scale Design Plan/ sects.
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Dober Model
Mt Ida site documents.
Colleges casebook |
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URBAN DESIGN
REVITALIZATION
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· “Organic Town Design/ Process: History as Place”
(Context, Target, Content-- in political economic social setting).
· Preview Study: Regions & Cities (Models)
· Inventory, Analysis, Composite, Synthesis
· Goals & Objectives / (Formulation of program & guidelines)
· Concepts: Forging a Strategic range meaningful alternative “big ideas”
· Final Designing: Whole of Urban Simultaneous-Systems and areas.
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[Team Sketch-projects])
a) Class Inventory, Sum Analysis.
b) Create four strong alternatives
for town revitalization.
Conceptual aspects.
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Bacon
French
Kott/ Krieger;
Alexander
(A City is not a Tree; Pattern Language).
Volpe model/
U Mass Cases. |
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INTERIOR MOTIFS |
· “Effective Adjunct Interior landscape scenarios”
· Classic types: Free standing receptacles; furniture, half-walls,
petition/ column units; entries/ rhythmic corridor / termini; windows;
balconies; floor layering; elevator spotters, wall-hangs, over-hangs.
· Basic maintenance components.
· Lighting; sculpture/ painting integration
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[Individual Vignette sketch]
(18 designs)
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ID magazine;
Sweets Catalog |
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FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
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· “High Art at Intimate Scale”: Worlds within Worlds
· Flower design (table): visual/ tactile/ audio/ olfactory extensions.
· Composition, emotion, representation again. History/ styles;
· Notes: eg Background; Intimate—but connecting to context.
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Individual quick-concept sketches
(5 designs) |
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CIVIC COMPETITIONS |
· “ ‘Perfect Insight’: In Search of the Big Idea.
A big idea to subsume program, with subordinate/ supportive ideas.
Dictum informs/ informed by details.
· “The Big Idea”: Definition, hallmarks & why. How get it (‘you know it
when you see it’!); Vs complex, unclear, & anti-big
postmodern view. Tracking
· Thrilling Scenario: “Every competition familiar, every one unique!” :
The competition call; registering; getting the packet.
The way ideas come, the way to integrate simply.
Strategy & presentation-- mailed by deadline.
Unveiling the big answer; accessing ten years later.
§ [Case Studies/ lessons-- by comparison]:
- Public City Squares: (Boston): Copley (15), City Hall & Post Office (9)
- National Memorials: FDR; JFK (2); MLK (2); Korean & Vietnam Wars.
- Special Celebrations: Peace Garden; Parc Villette; Brooklyn Museum.
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(Individual Quick brainstorming charrettes throughout semester) |
Competitions
Magazine
Great ideas in history items.
Reserve collection
Big Idea Essay
AD Book of other design realms: jewelry furniture, other product; Autos.
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FIELD TRIPS
“For Remembrance” |
§ Campus excursions/ outdoor class : (Spontaneous . . ,.)
§ Harvard Yd/ GSD lecture & exhibit.: (Wednesday --/--/--/)
§ Boston and Arboretum: (Saturday --/--/--/ ) |
Supplementary schedule.
Cameras & sketch-pads invited! |
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[POST-COURSE]
LANDSCAPE PROJECTS
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§ ID Thesis Advisory: Landscape architectural required component--
integral to the senior final ID project. Relates 3-scales of attention:
a) “Context Board”: Locus; Region-district/ concept relation. (required)
b) “Site-Plan Board”: As Whole. (Includes building-design, vehicular/
pedestrian/ amenities/ open space; abutting infrastructure. (required)
c) “Interior Board(s)” : Landscape space/ elements (as applies)
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Presentation strategy by student/ Id advisor
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See primary I.D.research.
Past student work. |
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§ Independent Elective: Special Landscape Architecture Project
(1 credit)
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By Arrangement
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New research. |
