LARP 780 - Topics in Theory and Design

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University of Pennsylvania

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Faculty. These advanced seminars explore advanced ideas in contemporary landscape architectural design and theory. A special link is made between the analysis of built work and text to design practice and the making of projects. Topics include the intersections of art, nature and creativity; practices of analysis and criticism; ideas of urbanism and infrastructure; collaborative ventures and cross-disciplinarity; vision and visuality; and representational structures, both verbal and visual. These courses fulfill the Landscape Architecture Theory III requirement and are open to all interested PennDesign students. Recent topics have been: Concepts & Theories in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (fall 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003), instructor: Anita Berrizbeitia; Environment Regimes (spring 2007, 2006), instructor: Dilip da Cunha; Case Studies in Urban Design (fall 2007, 2006, 2005, spring 2004), instructor: David Gouverneur; Contemporary European Landscape Architecture (fall 2007), instructor: Joseph Disponzio; Max Ernst's Liminal Nature (spring 2005), instructors: Linda Pollak and Sandro Marpillero; Active Time in Cinema and Landscape (fall 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003), instructor: Ed Keller; Metropolitan Landscapes: Design, Leisure, and Regeneration (spring 2004), instructor: Ray Gastil; Nature, Society and Cities (spring 2003), instructor: Neil Smith; Land, Art and Criticism (fall 2003), instructor: S_bastien Marot; Landscape Architecture and the Art of Hope (fall 2002), instructor: S_bastien Marot; Organizational Ecologies: Emergent Forms and Practices in Complex Landscapes (fall 2002) instructor: James Corner; Surrealism and Nature: Liminality (spring 2002), instructors: Linda Pollak and Sandro Marpillero; and One Two Paradox: Strategies for Building City Landscape (spring 2001), instructors: Linda Pollak and Sandro Marpillero.

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3.00

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www.upenn.edu

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(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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