History of gardens

lbarc2147  2019-2020  Bruxelles Saint-Gilles

History of gardens
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
de Lestrange Roselyne;
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 :

1 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
Baridon, M. (1998). Les jardins. Paysagistes, jardiniers, poètes. Robert Laffont.
Clément, G. (1997). Le Jardin planétaire. L'Aube/Château-Vallon.
Corajoud, M. (2010). Le paysage, c'est l'endroit où le ciel et la terre se touchent. Actes Sud.
Donadieu, P., & Mazas, E. (2002). Des mots de paysage et de Jardin. Educagri.
Hennaut, E., & Wieser Benedetti, U. (2019). Designed Landscapes Brussels 1775 - 2020. Bruxelles: CIVA.
Le Dantec, J. (1996). Jardins et Paysages. Paris: Larousse.
Prévôt, P. (2016). Histoire des jardins. Paris: Ulmer.
Faculty or entity
LOCI


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

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

Master [120] in Architecture (Bruxelles)