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Course code: IAS20197f15Semester: 2015/2016 summer
Name: Historical fortification in Landscape
Major: Landscape Architecture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 28 / 42 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. arch. Jerzy Potyrała, dr inż. Łukasz Pardela
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Contact person: dr inż. Łukasz Pardela
Learning outcomes: The student after completion of the course: - knows the history of inception and the functional - spatial specificity of chosen historic military architecture objects, their distinctive role in the landscape, and contemporary trends in the management of these buildings for tourist - education purposes; - knows how to distinguish the fortress green, intentionally planted in a given historical period, to determine the tactical; - knows how to take account in the landscape architect's design work the requirements for the cultural values protection of the monuments objects.
Competences:
Prerequisites: Preceding subjects: Principles of landscape design, Objects design of the landscape architecture, Engineering graphics, General building, Art history. The scope and contents of the course has been agreed with the class conductors: Principles of landscape design, Objects design of the landscape architecture, Engineering graphics, Civil engineering.
Course content: Fortress architecture in the landscape in Europe. About the need for protection of military architecture, large and small-scale assumptions, often very expressive in the landscape. The sequence of research - design works in the architectural activities related to regeneration and revitalization. Historical elements of the defense and defense systems – types of works of the fortress architecture, a glossary of terms. Outline of the development of European fortifications from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Outline of the development of European fortifications from the eighteenth century to the time of World War II. Eighteenth and nineteenth century defensive architecture in the landscape of Lower Silesia. The terms of conservation and restoration of monuments. Fortress green - historical features and contemporary issues in concerning the greenery in the area of fortresses. Examples of fortifications historic objects from Europe, which were undergone restoration - the modern features of them. Street furniture associated with support for tourism within the fortress. Lasting ruin, its role in the landscape - panorama, landscaping interior. Territorial protection of monuments.
Recommended literature: Recommended literature: • Behrens R. R., 2009. Revisiting Abbott Thayer: non-scientific reflections about camouflage in art, war and zoology Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 27, February 2009 vol. 364, no. 1516 497-501. • McLeod, V. 2012, Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, • Potteigner, M., Purinton J., 1998. Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories, Wiley Publishing. • Rolf, R. (2004), A Dictionary on Modern Fortification. An illustrated lexicon on European Fortification in the period 1800-1945, Wyd. PARK, Middelburg • Stevens, M., Merilaita, S., 2011.Animal Camouflage, Mechanisms and Function, Cambride University Press. • Thayer, A.H., 1918. Camouflage, The Scientific Monthly. VII, p. 481– 494. • Thayer, Gerald H. Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s Disclosures (New York, 1909), 151. • Tump, J., D., 2014. On designing experienceable stories in the Unknown Landscapes of the First World War; Western Front, 2014-2018, MSc thesis Landscape Architecture, Wageningen University. • Fort Journal • JoLA Journal • Landscape Architecture Magazine • Landscape Architecture Quarterly • LA China • Topos Journal • WWW Literature (in Polish) • Bogdanowski J., 2002, Architektura obronna w krajobrazie Polski, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa-Kraków • Kolouszek, S.: Fortyfikacje Festung Breslau, Wyd. Archiwum System ,Jelenia Góra 2014 • Kozarski P., Molski P.: Zagospodarowanie i konserwacja zabytkowych budowli, Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Fortyfikacji, Warszawa 2001 • Środulska-Wielgus, J.: Zieleń Twierdzy Kraków, Wyd. Urząd Miasta Krakowa, Kraków, 2005. • Kolouszek, S., Pardela, Ł., 2013: Twierdza Wrocław jako unikalny zabytek Architectura Militaris. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Oficerskiej Wojsk Lądowych imienia generała Tadeusza Kościuszki, 2 (168): 68-82 • Kolouszek, S., Pardela, Ł., 2014: Wyposażenie obiektów fortyfikacji pruskiej we Wrocławiu. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Oficerskiej Wojsk Lądowych imienia generała Tadeusza Kościuszki, 2 (172): 20-31. • Pardela, Ł., 2013: Flooding as a means of military defence: Landscape of the 20th century Fortress Wrocław. 4th International Conference CIVIL ENGINEERING`13 Proceedings, Part I , landscape and architecture, Łotwa, Jełgawa, 283-287. • Pardela, Ł., Kolouszek, S., 2014: Ochrona zabytkowych wartości w procesie adaptacji zabytków zespołu Fortu Piechoty 6 „Polanowice” we Wrocławiu. Wartość funkcji w obiektach zabytkowych, PKN ICOMOS, Warszawa, 205-217. • Potyrała, J., 2007: Landscape of the forgotten Wrocław Stronghold in the years of 1890–1914, Architectus 1-2 (21022), 57.
Assessment methods: credit classes, examination
Comment: Lectures 1. Introduction lectures. Fortification and landscape transformation 2. Historical elements of the defense and defense systems – types of works of the fortress architecture, a glossary of terms. 3. Fortress Srebrna Gora and Fortress Klodzko – lecture and excursion. 4. Fortress Srebrna Gora and Fortress Klodzko – lecture and excursion. 5. Fortress Srebrna Gora and Fortress Klodzko – lecture and excursion. 6. Fortress Wrocław (XIX/XX cent.) – lecture and excursion. 7. Fortress Wrocław (XIX/XX cent.) – lecture and excursion. 8. Military camouflage in landscape architecture. 9. Fortress green - historical features and contemporary issues in concerning the greenery in the area of fortresses. 10. The terms of conservation and restoration of monuments. Narrative landscapes. 11. Inundated landscape and fortification. 12. Examples of fortifications historic objects from Europe, which were undergone restoration - the modern features of them. 13. Examples of fortifications historic objects from Europe, which were undergone restoration - the modern features of them. 14. Lectures review. 15. Final lecture. Classes 1. Introduction to course 2. Terrain Works – Basic terrain description 3. Terrain Works – Secondo basic terrain description 4. Design studio – Analysis of documents (legislation) 5. Design studio – Brief Scenario Design 6. Design studio – Brief Scenario Design 7. Design studio – Detailed Scenario Design 8. Mid-semestre presentations 9. Design studio – Detailed Design 10. Design studio – Detailed Design 11. Design studio – Street furniture design 12. Design studio – Street furniture design 13. Final presentations 14. Final presentations 15. Final presentations