Landscape Architecture Seminars
The following seminars will be offered by the Landscape Architecture section during the 2009-2010 school year. Clicking on a seminar title will load a PDF document with more information.
Winter Quarter 2010
LARCH 693 (Research Seminar in Landscape & Design) Jesus J. Lara
This seminar will focus on the investigation and discussion of a broad scope of research methods and the development of landscape design and planning research techniques and skills. The urban environment will be viewed primarily as a social and psychological environment, with concern for who uses these environments and the conflicts that can arise between user groups.
LARCH 760 (Remaking Metropolis & ULI Urban Design Competition) Jesus J. Lara
This seminar examines how the concept of sustainable urban landscapes applies to communities, cities and neighborhoods and gives students insight into a variety of contemporary urban design and landscape issues and practices through the sustainability lens.
LARCH 760 (Replacement) Katherine Bennett
The seminar will begin with an introduction to patterns of megapolis development in Asia, as exemplary of population mobility. We will examine new spatial types merging historically distinct cultures and functions. We will look at modes of mobility that subvert civic institutions, and others that adapt to them. We will investigate social as well as material displacement resulting from the replacement of housing, workplace, commercial and recreational configurations. We will question whether the urban reordering of systemic relocation may relinquish space within the city's transitional spaces to systems traditionally associated with the country and nature. Students will research and present case studies on development patterns related to population mobility.
Autumn Quarter 2009
LARCH 760 (History Seminar on Architecture and Landscape) Jane Amidon and John McMorrough
This seminar will study overlaps and divergences between how the respective disciplines of Architecture and Landscape Architecture position themselves relative to a set of key terms: History, Future, Image, Ground, Performance, Form, and Territory.
LARCH 760 (Environmental Justice and Design) Sarah Cowles
In this seminar, we will investigate specific cases of environmental injustice in North America. Over the course of the quarter, students will work in teams to develop a landscape and communications proposal for a specific community in the Ohio River Valley, Rust Belt, or Appalachian region.