LNS 531 - Survey of the History of Landscape Design

Institution:

Chatham University

Subject:

Description:

The landscape traditions of the Western and Eastern worlds are surveyed from antiquity to the present. The course explores the relationships between designed landscape forms within each culture and the political, social, philosophical, and artistic factors that could have determined and influenced the designed landscape. The course draws attention to the fundamental notion that landscape design is both an invention and cultural representation of landscape. Cross-listed as LAR 520.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

LNS531

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.chatham.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 365-1100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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