Introduction to Landscape Architecture History

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This course provides a cultural history of landscape architecture to understand the design, inhabitation, and ecologies of landscapes - including cities, gardens, territories, and the environment — across space and time, with an emphasis on infrastructure, power dynamics, and the urban realm. By critically probing landscape's histories, narratives, and counter-narratives, students will be better poised to understand and articulate their own contributions to the field as future practitioners. The course follows a loose chronology based in synoptic themes, which will be presented with theoretical texts to provoke critical thinking about the development of landscape form and ideas among world cultures.