History of gardens

lbarc2147  2018-2019  Bruxelles Saint-Gilles

History of gardens
3 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Vanden Eynde Jean-Louis;
Language
French
Main themes
Introduction the art of garden design, adaptation to the site, layout, strategy of how the garden unfolds.
The constants are:
  • what can be made of height, aspect, views
  • control of the hydraulics
  • working with boundaries and links
  • use of perspective and colour
  • visual and/or real pathways
  • architecture of plants
  • symbolic repertoire.
The period covered stretches from the 1st to the 20th century:
Gardens from Antiquity, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, classical, landscape or romantic, historic and contemporary gardens.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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Specific learning outcomes:

By the end of this course, students will be able to

  • recognise the laws of composition applied to European gardens through history.
  • make reference to other subjects such as botany, hydraulics, climatology, landscape, semiology and sociology.
  • make sense of an architectural procedure centred on the garden and express it clearly.

Contribution to the learning outcomes reference network:

Build knowledge of architecture

  • Be familiar with and analyse the discipline¿s basic references

Make use of other subjects

  • Interpret and synthesise the knowledge of other subjects

Express an architectural procedure

  • Express ideas clearly in oral, graphic and written form
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Bibliography
ALLAIN Y.-M., CHRISTIANY J. L'art des jardins en Europe, de l'évolution des idées et des savoir-faire, Citadelles & Mazenod, Tours, 2006
BENETIERE M.-H., Principes d'analyse scientifique, Jardin, vocabulaire typologique et technique, Editions du Patrimoine, Paris, 2000
KLUCKERT Ehrenfried, Parcs et jardins en Europe de l'antiquité à nos jours, Könemann, Cologne, 2000
Faculty or entity
LOCI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Architecture (Bruxelles)
ARCB2M
3
Master [120] in Architecture (Tournai)
ARCT2M
3