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University of British Columbia

SALA Landscape Architecture Program                                                         TERM 1: 2013-14

LARC 501   Landscape design methods and processes Space as Place.

Professor Patrick M. Condon        patrick.condon@ubc.ca

Tuesday/Wednesday /Thursday, 2 - 6 pm. LARC Annex.

READINGS

The purpose of the readings is to aide in our discussion of your design work and to help you begin to develop your own vocabulary and style for discussing your work.

Seminar sessions will be held once every two weeks (roughly) for a two hour portion of Studio time (as indicated on the class calendar). You will be told in a timely fashion which readings are due for each seminar session.  Each student is responsible for the submission of two questions for discussion provoked by each of the readings assigned. These questions are to be handed in at the beginning of the seminar session and will form the basis for conversation. These questions should be typed. They will be reviewed and graded even if they are not used during the discussion.

Students will be designated as session leaders in advance of each of the seminars. Subsequent to the seminar, questions will be collected, graded, and factored into evaluations. Readings for the first session are on the course blog at:  http://larc501.blogspot.ca/

Appleton, Jay. (1975). The Experience of Landscape. John Wiley and Sons Ltd: London. pp. 58-120.

Arnold, Henry. (1980). Trees in Urban Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold York, N.Y. pp. 47 -76

Burle Marx, R. (1954). "A Garden Style in Brazil to Meet Contemporary Needs with Emphasis on the Paramount Value of Native Plants." Landscape Architecture 44: 200-208.

Bye, A. E. (1983). Art into Landscape, Landscape into Art. Mesa, Arizona, PDA Publishers.

Cardasis, D. (1996). "Imaginary Gardens with Real Frogs." GSD News(Winter-Spring): 34-39.

Church, T. (1955). Gardens are for People. New York, NY, McGraw-Hill.

Condon, Patrick M. (1994). "A Designed Landscape Space Typology: The Language of the Land We Live In." In Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design, edited by Karen A. Franck and Lynda H. Schneekloth, 79-93. New York, N.Y: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Condon, P. (1988). "Cubist Space, Volumetric Space, and Landscape Architecture." 

Landscape Journal 7(1): 1-14.

Eckbo, G. (1950). Landscape for Living. New York, NY, Architectural Record with Duell, Sloan & Pearce.

Goldfinger, E. (1941). “The Sensation of Space.” Architectural Record XC (Nov) 129-131.

Hester, R. (1986). "Point of View/ Randy Hester." Landscape Architecture 76(6): 58-58,114.

Hubbard, H. V. and T. Kimball (1917). An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design. New York, NY, The MacMillan Company.

Jensen, J. (1939). Siftings. Chicago, Illinois, Ralph Fletcher Seymour.

Kiley, D. (1963). "Nature: The Source of all Design." Landscape Architecture 53: 127.

Lynch, K. (1960). “The Image of the City.” Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

McCluskey, Jim. (1985). Landscape "Principles of Design, 3 Spatial Design; Organization of Space". Landscape Design; Journal of the Landscape Institute. no. 154. pp. 10-14

McHarg, I. (1969). Design with Nature. Garden City, NY, Natural History Press.

Olin, L. (1988). "Form, Meaning, and Expression in Landscape Architecture." Landscape Journal 7(2): 149 -168.

Olin, L. (1999). "What I do when I can do it: Representation in recent work." Studies in the 

History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 19(1): 102-121.

Olgyay, V. (1973). Design with Climate. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

Rose, J. (1938). "Freedom in the Garden: A Contemporary Approach in Landscape Design." Pencil Points 19(Oct.): 639-643.

Rose, J. (1938). "Plants Dictate Garden Forms: Each has place as Material in Landscape Design." Pencil Points 19(Nov.): 695-687.

Rose, J. (1939). "Articulate Form in Landscape Design: People and Materials Defeat Preconceived Pattern." Pencil Points 20(Feb.): 98-100.

Sekler, E. (1965). “Structure, Construction and Tectonics.” Structure in Art and Science, New York, NY, George Brazlier: 89-95.

Smithson, Robert. (1979). "Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape." In The Writings of Robert Smithson: Essays with Illustrations. Holt, Nancy editor.  New York: New York University Press.

Thiel, P. (1964). “Processional Architecture.” AIA Journal (Feb.): 23-18.

Thiel, Philip. (1961). "A Sequence-Experience Notation". Town Planning Review.
Vol, 32, no 1. April.

Walker, P. (1997). “Classicism, Modernism, and Minimalism in the Landscape”. In Peter Walker Minimalist Gardens. Washington, DC, Spacemaker Press: 17-25.