LARP 601 - Studio III

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Sanders/Faculty. This studio brings together both two-year and three-year MLA students for a term-long studio problem that emphasizes a wide range of fundamental and traditional landscape architectural issues and professional skills ranging from site analysis and site planning, to the siting of structures (buildings, paths, drives, walls, pavements) grading and storm water management, the creation of spaces for human use, vegetation and planting for environmental and cultural purposes, and their design development and realization in form and construction. The studio introduces students to issues of collaboration with clients and other professionals and of the realization of program and ideas in physical construction. The students work in a variety of scales and media, with a sequence of exercises and products. Instruction includes conventional desk critiques with group pin-up presentations and discussions approximately every three weeks and several field trips to the site and other related locations. Past studios have proposed new urban landscapes for the Mill Creek community neighborhood in West Philadelphia; grounds for a new school in Philadelphia; the reclamation of a large brownfield and waste-land-fill site in Pennsbury, PA; the redesign of Woodstock, NY as a performing arts park; the transformation of the Philadelphia Naval Base and Shipyard to civilian use; the Delaware Riverfront in Bensalem, PA; and the former steel mill site of Roebling, N.J.; The Camden, N.J. Waterfront North; and sites in Baltimore, M.D.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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