COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ARCH 482	C	9	3	0	0	3	6

Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:	Tuesday 9:30 - 12:15 A130
Course Description:	-
Course Objectives:	a) Develop graphic communication skills to represent landscape design at the most appropriate scale of representation. b) Apply basic principles of sustainable landscape design to a project area. c) Evaluate existing landscape designs based on performance criteria.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction – Lecture # 1 Lecture Around Landscape Design
2	Lecture – assignment # 2 Lecture About Site Analysis
3	Lecture – assignment # 3 Lecture Landscape materials in the cityscape
4	Lecture – assignment # 4 Lecture Introduction to the Landscape Design elements
5	Lecture – assignment # 5 Lecture Urban Furniture & Elements: benches, walls, fences, bridges, art works, skates & playgrounds and so on
6	Introduction to Project : The Durres Street - shaping the street fronts / List of Case studies
7	Mid Term Submission and discussions
8	The Street Fronts, concepts
9	The Street Fronts, critics
10	The Street Fronts, Pre-Jury Part 1
11	The Street Fronts, Pre-Jury Part 2
12	The Street Fronts, critics
13	The Street Fronts, Final Jury Part 1
14	The Street Fronts, Final Jury Part 2

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	Dee, Catherine. 2001. Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A visual Introduction, Taylor & Francis, London and New York Robinson, Nick. 2004. The Planting Design Handbook, Ashgate Publishing Limited, London and New York
Other References:	K. Lynch, The image of the city J. Pallasmaa, Space, place and atmosphere. Emotion and peripheral perception in architectural experience
Laboratory Work:	Only partially
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	• an understanding of the relationship between buildings and their environment, indoors and outdoors and of the need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to human needs and scale;
2	• an understanding of the scope of the art and science of landscape design;
3	• an understanding of the principles and elements of landscape design;
4	• an understanding of the basic landscape concepts and natural and human made elements
5	• an ability to visualize landscape elements and scenes in traditional and digital media,
6	• an ability to analyze and depict the context and the topographic and climatic characteristics of a project site in traditional and digital media;

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Integrated second cycle study program in Architecture (5 years) Program

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Homework	4	5
Presentation	1	25
Project	1	45
Final Exam	1	10
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	5	3	15
Mid-terms	1	11	11
Assignments	5	3	15
Final examination	1	11	11
Other			0
Total Work Load:			100
Total Work Load/25(h):			4
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6