Urban Theory
"A walk through Italy"
Landscape Architecture can be defined as an activity of place-making. An act of milieu, it involves inhabitants, users, the history of the place, the story of the site over time. Time and process, and therefore narrative, lie at the very heart of landscape architecture (J.D. Hunt, 2000).
This theoretical framework in very evident in the Italian landscape; the course has the objective of exploring with students the relationship between community form, history and culture and how that is manifest in constructed space which in Italy takes various forms: the complex morphology of hill towns, historic and contemporary villas and gardens, archeological parks.
Students will participate in a field trip, to witness and study Italy’s long tradition of landscape and urban planning, which includes protection and preservation of cultural landscapes.
Sara Williams
Performative space
Wencan Li
Gardens, a relationship between nature and man
Sun Jung Lee
Villa d'Este in Tivoli
Kevin Daniel Luna
Public spaces, sculptures and Bomarzo
Evan Maynard
Villa Lante in Bagnaia
Lingfei Qian
The Botanic Garden in Rome
Mandi Roberts
Livability and Sustainability of Italian cities
Steward Cilvin
Roman Piazza's
Siwen Wang
Urban design development of Florence
Katherine Woodhouse
Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli
Shuai Zhao
Florence Villas
Bin Chen
Rome and Water