LA 6140

Latin America: Landscapes and Urbanisms

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This three-credit course examines Latin American landscape architecture.  Lectures, readings and discussions will highlight projects, practices and theories of Latin American landscape-making and urbanism over the last one thousand years. Course sections present a theoretical and thematic framework for examining landscapes such as plazas, canals, municipal parks, ports, infrastructure, etc. Student presentations on specific Latin American landscapes will conclude the course. A fourth credit is available for additional mapping and indexing of historically significant Latin American landscapes. This documentation, requiring weekly meetings with the instructor, will create a spatial and analytical instrument for ongoing landscape and urban studies. 

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: junior, senior, or graduate standing.

• Access key historical models, practices and precedents of Latin American landscape-making and urbanism.
• Undertake comparative transnational research framework that is specific to the Latin American condition, allowing for comparative analysis and synthesis across national and regional borders in the Americas.
• Document Latin America landscape-making and urbanism as it relates to the contemporary United States landscape projects.
• Evaluate Euro-centric theories, methods, and paradigms that have been historically used to construe and construct landscape in Latin America.

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