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Course code: IAS20281f16
Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Contemporary Landscape Architecture
Major: Landscape Architecture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 0
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 0 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. arch. Justyna Rubaszek, dr inż. Marta Weber-Siwirska
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. arch. Justyna Rubaszek, dr inż. Marta Weber-Siwirska

Learning outcomes: After finishing the course student has a knowledge about mains tendencies in the contemporary landscape architecture, mostly concerning with eco design and green infrastructure. He knows new solutions in designing green and sustainable urban public spaces and he knows new green technologies like green roofs, rain gardens, green walls, tree cells, a structural soil.

Competences:

Prerequisites: engineering studies of landscape architecture, architecture, urbanism

Course content: Contemporary landscape architecture, green urban renewal, green urbanism, green architecture, shaping green areas in the cityscape, eco-design and eco-technologies, green roofs, green walls, sustainable urban areas

Recommended literature: Virginia McLeod, Detail in contemporary landscape architecture, Laurence Kong Publishing, London 2008 1000 x Landscape Architecture, praca zbiorowa, Braun, 2008 Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden, Rain gardens. Managing water sustainably in the garden and designed landscape, Timber Press, Àgata Losantos, Daniela Santos Quartino, Bridget Vranckx, Urban Landscape: New Tendencies, New Resources, New Solutions, LOFT Publications, London 2007 Sustainable Urban Landscape, ed. Josep Maria Minguet, Monsa, Barcelona 2008 Urban landscapes. Small squares, Monsa, 2012 Water in the Townscape, Volume 2, red. Anna Januchta-Szostak, Politechnika Poznańska, 2009 Asdrid Zimmermann, Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components, Brikhauser, 2009 Ecological Urbanism, ed. Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lars Müller Publishers, Switzerland, 2011

Assessment methods: Pass of classes based on the final test (skills and knowledge), presentation concerning a green transformation of neglected, abandoned urban spaces (skills and knowledge); activity in the form of presence and consultation (competences).

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