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The LAN153 course on Theory and History of Landscape Architecture explores the relationship between humans and landscape patterns over time, covering various cultural influences and historical movements. Students will learn to analyze landscape design from ancient civilizations to modern practices, integrating ethics and values related to human-nature relationships. The course includes blended learning, continuous assessment, and recommended texts for further study.

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The LAN153 course on Theory and History of Landscape Architecture explores the relationship between humans and landscape patterns over time, covering various cultural influences and historical movements. Students will learn to analyze landscape design from ancient civilizations to modern practices, integrating ethics and values related to human-nature relationships. The course includes blended learning, continuous assessment, and recommended texts for further study.

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Semester March-August 2023

COURSE
INFO
LAN153 THEORY AND HISTORY
OF LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE
i m a g e
Credit Unit : 3
Contact Hour : 2 Lecture + 1 Blended Learning
Part : 2
Prerequisite : NONE

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course aims to recognise the diverse definitions and identities between human and landscape patterns through time
and space. It also uncovers the physical landscape characteristics, spatial layout, and built form design in a time-space. It
highlights the expressions of human perceptions, attitudes, and ideas in the built environment. This course introduces
basic knowledge relating to theories and concepts from ancient civilisations to the present day that stimulates the
exploration of design ideas in landscape architecture.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES


At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Discover the diverse definitions and identities in relation to human and landscape patterns. ( C2 )
2. Determine the influence of major movements of the evolution of social structures and aspirations, and cultural
backgrounds in the landscape architecture history. ( C4 )
3. Integrate the ethics and values of human-nature relationships in different periods reflected in landscape architecture
history ( A4 )

SYLLABUS CONTENT
1 Introduction to Landscape

1.1 Explaining Landscape


1.2 Folk Culture and Popular Culture
1.3 Sources of Valuing ‘landscape’
1.4 People, Landscape and Identity
1.5 Migration and adaptation
1.6 Agricultural civilizations (Varro’s Theory)
1.7 Industrial societies (Varro’s Theory)

2 Expressions of Early Civilisations

2.1 Landscape Design as Vernacular Expression.


2.2 Constructing Identity in the Landscape
2.3 Ideology of Culture
2.4 Magic, Myth, Nature
2.5 Power and Legacies of Empire

3 Influences and Approaches in Ancient Garden

3.1 Japanese Gardens


3.2 Chinese Gardens
3.3 Islamic Gardens (Mughal & Moghul)
3.4 Castle/Walled Gardens
3.5 Monasteries
3.6 French Gardens
3.7 Roman Gardens

4 Moving Towards Modernisation

4.1 Royal Botanic Gardens


4.2 Victorian Gardens
4.3 Commemorative Landscapes and Cemeteries
4.4 Central Parks
4.5 The National and State Park System
4.6 City Beautiful Movement (Malaysia)

5 The Modern World


5.1 Europe – England
5.2 North America
5.3 Romanticism in Malaysia
5.4 Environmental Awareness: Social Visionaries & Industrial
5.5 Philanthropists (19th Century)
5.6 Conserving Nature

6 Prospecting Landscape

6.1 Europe – England, Implementation of Social Utopias, North America, Harvard Revolution, Domestic Landscape,
Bring Nature into City, Man Made Ecosystem, Historic Landscape Preservation
6.2 Nation’s Identity and Future Identity
6.3 Spilling Over Concept into 21st Century: Sustainable Development (Helsinki Declaration, Rio Summit, Johannesburg)
6.4 World Environment Conference, New Urbanism Movement (Compact Town Planning)
6.5 Historic landscape preservation and restoration
6.6 Environmental and visual resource analysis and planning

TEACHING METHODOLOGY ASESSMENT


Blended Learning Continuous assessment : 100%
Case Study CLO 1: Test 1 : 25%
Lectures
Presentation CLO 1: Assignment 1 : 25%
CLO 2: Test 2 : 25%
CLO 3: Assignment 2 : 25%

RECOMMENDED TEXT
1. Geoffrey Jellicoe,Susan Jellicoe, The Landscape of Man, Thames & Hudson, 1995, ISBN: 9780500278192
2. Mann, W. A., Landscape architecture: an illustrated history in timelines, site plans, and biography, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1993, ISBN:
978047159465

REFERENCES
1. Anita Ganeri, India Under the Mughal Empire, 1526-1858, Heinemann/Raintree, 1999, ISBN: 0817254323
2. Goulty, S. M., Heritage gardens: care, conservation, and management, 1, Routledge., 2003, ISBN: 978041507474
3. John Malam, Mesopotamia and the Near East, n/a, ISBN: 0237518856
4. Ian L. McHarg, Design with Nature, Wiley, 1995, ISBN: 047111460X
5. Norman T. Newton, Design on the Land, La Editorial, UPR, 1971, ISBN: 0674198700
6. Philip Pregill,Nancy Volkman, Landscapes in History, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN: 0471293288
7. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Landscape design: A Cultural and architectural History, 1, Harry N. Abrams, 2001, ISBN: 9780810942530

8. Charles Willard Moore,William J. Mitchell,William Turnbull, The Poetics of Gardens, MIT Press, 1993, ISBN: 0262631539
9. Stephen Ward, The Garden City: Past, present and future (Planning, History and Environment Series), 1, Routledge, 2005, ISBN:
97804155119

Program of Landscape Architecture


Universiti Teknologi MARA Perak Branch
Seri Iskandar Campus

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