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History/Theory I: Abstract Fall 2000 Gavin Keeney / Landscape Agency New York SITE HISTORIOGRAPHIES - MODELS OF ORDER, ABERRATIONS & PHANTASMATIC HISTORIES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OBJECTIVES 1/ To understand landscape architecture as a type of intellectual history, that resides within architecture, or a series of discontinuous palimpsests; 2/ To develop close readings of sites and texts from the Renaissance to the Present (the trajectory of Modernism) - to extract the cultural events that sponsored these such that the content registered within form becomes palpable (that traces of cultural paradigms, heresies and reveries are revealed); 3/ To assess and revivify (to decode, subvert and undermine) the explicit and implicit forms of ideology represented in the aesthetic production of space - i.e. social, scientific, political, artistic and linguistic values (landscape as 'philology' writ large); 4/ To write short 300-400 word synopses and critiques of sites and texts examining the 'historiographic' bias of each culturally determined work with an eye to contemporary use or uselessness; 5/ To discuss the implications of landscape architecture as a fully productive form of cultural activity and a form of representing ideas; 6/ To explore the necessity of subversion and demolition of outmoded forms of representation (the view to the 'archaic' as well as the view to the 'avant garde' with special attention to contemporary landscape architectural expression). METHODOLOGY 1/ Students will read and write about the nature of representing landscape, with optional viewing of selected films that picture landscape or explore the 'mentality' of a period or epoch; 2/ Tests will be given only as required to assess the assimilation of a working knowledge of landscape types and tropes; 3/ Emphasis will be placed on developing specific knowledge of landscape as it embodies the time and place of its creation. Traveler’s Advisory: The Syllabus is merely a roadmap - the Michelin Green Guide (sites), NOT the Red (hotels & restaurants). The actual route through this territory will be selected 'en route' and reading materials will be announced on a biweekly basis. |
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