Theoretical Foundations

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This seminar is intended to provide Landscape Architecture Students (as well as Architecture, Planning students) with knowledge of the most relevant histories, theories and critical discourses related to the field from the scope of Landscape Design. We tend to think that theories provide the insight to embitter practice. However, there has been practice that provoked and enhanced disciplinary debate and actually generated a paradigm shift. The course launches a research question: it is only through the examination of influential design works that we can build the multiple dialogues between theory and practice: explore how theory is embedded into disciplinary production and study how pioneer works create specific and innovative disciplinary literature.