Viaggio in Italia

"A walk through Italy"

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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.