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Master of Landscape Architecture Class of 2020
Program of study
Master of Landscape Architecture Class of 2020
Master i landskapsarkitektur (2020)
| Course | 2020 Autumn | 2021 Spring | 2021 Autumn | 2022 Spring |
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| 24 | ||||
| 6 | ||||
| 6 | ||||
Valgfri studio kurs | 24 | |||
Studio Course | 24 | |||
| 6 | ||||
| 30 | ||||
| Sum | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
The International Master of Landscape Architecture is a professional degree that encompasses a curriculum of the widest range of relevant subjects demanded and requested in the profession. The curriculum includes three eligible terms on the masters level and one last term, the fourth, for designing and writing of the Master’s Thesis.
The International masters programs of Landscape Architecture at AHO is designed and developed for students who wants to be involved in designing our environments in times of challenge. If you are interested in form and the relationship between development patterns and landscape, and how the climate changes affect the design of our environment, this is the programme for you. To fully appreciate the program at AHO you should be critical and constructive, creative and innovative. You should be intent at attaining complex and relevant design knowledge in addition to embracing the importance of cultural context and social conditions.
Landscape architects educated at AHO are capable of establishing an independent area of application, contribute original angles of perception and solutions, and practise the discipline at a high international level.
Landscape architects who have achieved a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from AHO can practise landscape architecture on the basis of the knowledge and skills defined in the EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications and the IFLA Charter for landscape architecture education.
- They are capable of practising landscape architecture through artistic and scientific study, ideation, and architecture design in different scales and formats
- They are familiar with the discipline’s natural, environmental, social, cultural, and technological preconditions
- They master the subject’s work methods, tools and forms of expression, and are capable of using them in a targeted, professional and experimental manner
- They are knowledgeable about the history of the discipline, its uniqueness, and position in society, and are capable of using this knowledge in their own academic work
- They are capable of familiarising themselves with research and development work in the field and are capable of using this knowledge in designing and architectural criticism.
Landscape architects educated at AHO are capable of taking on different professional roles in a reflected manner and demonstrate good cooperation skills when working with other professional groups:
- They are capable of disseminating work carried out in the architectural landscape field – their own and other people’s – in layman's terms and using professional and academic jargon.
- They have the ability to reflect on their own work and transcend their own frame of reference
- They take responsibility for their own learning and academic development, and are capable of reflecting on and positioning their own professional contributions in relation to ethical issues that arise when practising design.
Our pedagogical approach is based on exploration, conceptualization and design. During the education the students are given written assignments linked to design and theoretical subjects and tasks. The pedagogical approach also includes discussions, presentations, critiques, literature studies and project assignments.
The teaching is research-based and some of the studio courses are closely linked to AHO’s research projects. This implies that the students need to be familiar with scientific writing, articles and literature. Research methodologies, ethics and results are explained and demonstrated as an integrated part of the teaching.
The study program counting 90 credits (ects) in addition to a master’s thesis (diploma) counting for 30 credits (ects).
The two years consist of both mandatory courses and elective courses. The masters thesis is an independent and self-selected task, but can also be undertaken in collaboration with an other student.
The education is ICT supported. Basic skills in digital tools are needed. Access to a private PC /Mac is also required. Adequate program training is offered as well as access to relevant licenses.
The digital communication platform Moodle is the communication tool between faculty and students. The Moodle platform handles schedules, study plans, submission of assignments, lectures, literature lists etc. Students are also given a special AHO e-mail address that is mandatory as a communication source between AHO and students throughout the whole study.
The students are offered the opportunity to spend maximum one term at another school. AHO has a wide variety of formal exchange and cooperation agreements which the students can choose among, among these the European Erasmus+ and the Nordic Nordplus progam. Separate agreements may be arranged although they must be pre-approved by the Committee for Access and Recognition (OGU) in order to be accredited as an inclusive part of the study.
12 803 Diploma Landscape Architecture
Successful completion of 90 ECTS, successful completion of a pre-diploma report, approved by an advisor and the head of department.
The diploma semester at AHO is an independent research and design task on a theme chosen by the candidate. In consultation with a chosen advisor, the candidate is to produce a complete work of exceptional quality contributing to the discipline’s discourse.
General proficiency
- An understanding of the given natural, social, cultural and technological conditions that contribute to inform architectural, urban and landscape design work
- Ability to see the particular approaches and methods of the discipline in relation to society and contemporary landscape situations.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the theoretical and policy-related elements pertaining to the field of research and practice within the discipline.
- A mastery of the methods, tools and media inherent to urban and landscape design
- An awareness of urban and landscape design’s historical, societal and theoretical background and context
Skills
- An ability to undertake an independent and responsible project development.
- Ability to conceive of, conceptualize and design a specific project pertaining to a specific situation or problem.
- An ability to employ the range of knowledge within the discipline in the specific diploma research and design.
- An ability to communicate design ideas and results to professionals and laypersons
The diploma semester is an independent study whose methods and topics are to be outlined in an approved pre-diploma brief. Interim presentations and a final presentation is mandatory.
The diploma semester starts of with an information meeting where both administrative and academic staff is present. Main source of information and updates during the semester is Moodle, and as a diploma student you are obligated to familiarize yourself with the AHO's diploma regulations. The regulations outlines the frame work of the diploma semester, and describes details concerning submission, reviews and assessment.
A diploma project may be withdrawn from examination by December 1st (Fall semester) and May 1st (Spring semester).
| Mandatory coursework | Courseworks required | Presence required | Comment |
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| Annet - spesifiser i kommentarfeltet | Required | 2 mid term reviews |
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| Project assignment | Individual | Pass / fail | Report and presentation of diploma project. External censors. The diploma project should be evaluated on the terms, problematics and scope that the students themselves have defined in their project and in relation to the criteria given by the examiner´s guide to diploma evaluation and the required learning outcome. |
60 302 Themes and Concepts in Landscape Architecture
This course is mandatory for 1st year Master of Landscape Architecture students, and open to other students that have passed the foundation level.
The course introduces the students to basic concepts and elements in landscape architecture. It provides a broad ranged introduction to the discipline and the way it is being taugth at AHO. Students will be introduced to most of the teachers at the Institute of Landscape and Urbanism who will all give a lecture on one of their fields of research and expertice. The course reflects on the disciplines intimate connection with other disciplines, on garden history, spatial planning, urban design and urban space, sustainable infrastructure and the role of water territories in the contemporary landscape.
The course is structured around lectures and seminars. Some of the teachers will take the students on fieldtrips.
Professor in charge:
Janike Kampevold Larsen, Hannes Zander
Additional staff:
Marianne Skjulhaug, Rainer Stange, Sabine Muller, Luis Callejas, Peter Hemmersam, Elisabeth Ulrika Sjødahl, Hanne Bat Finke, Jonny Aspen, Karin Helms, Giambattista Zaccariotto
After passed course the student shall understand how ecological, infrastructural factors shape the urban landscape, and will have a broad knowledge of landscape architecture’ s themes and concepts.
Students will be introduced to basic landscape architectural theory and theories on contemporary urbanism.
The course consists of 11 lectures, all of which will be followed by a 2 hour text seminar. Lectures will focus on core themes within the institute's portfolio of teching and research.
Tuesday mornings 10:00 - 13:00 from August to October.
Tentative plan, order may change:
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August 25: Janike Kampevold Larsen: Introduction to landscape architecture’s core concepts, relationship to other fields and to theories.
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September 1: Hanne Bat Finke: Landscape art, when form is more than function
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September 8: Rainer Stange: Garden history. Water in the Garden over 1000 Years.
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September 15: Luis Callejas: The Nature of Image
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September 22: Peter Hemmersam: Urban design
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September 29: Jonny Aspen: Urban space
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October 6: excursion week
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October 13: Marianne Skjulhaug: Peri-urban – anticipation and temporality
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October 20: Sabine Müller: Water urbanism, water machines, water places
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October 27: Elisabeth Sjødahl: Beautiful Landscapes and Heavy Pollution - larger landscape projects organized as environmental infrastructures
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November 3: Karin Helms
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November 10: Giambattista Zaccariotto: Void as a tool in urban landscape configuration
Mandatory Reading:
Relevant literature for each lecture and the following seminar will be uploaded to Moodle.
Recommended Reading
Boulevard Book. History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards Allan Jacobs Allan Jacobs. Elizabeth MacDonald, Yodan Rofe. The MIT Press August 2003
The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Waterman, Tim. AVA Publishing, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009
Digital Landscape Architecture Now. Amoroso, N. & Hargreaves, G. Thames and Hudson 2012
Suggested Reading:
Great Streets. August 1995 The MIT Press August 1995
Des arbres dans la ville. Caroline Mollie, Actes Sud & Val'hor, Paris, 2009
Promenades de Paris. Adolphe Alphonse, Paris, 1867-73, 2002
Blågrønn hovedstad. Oslo Elveforum, Oslo, 2010
Design With Nature . McHarg, Ian. 1971, Garden City: Natural History Press.
The Granite Garden . Spirn, Anne Whiston, New York, Basic Book, Inc., 1984.
CENTER, Volume 14: On Landscape Urbanism (Paperback) The Center for American Architecture and Design; 1st edition (April 1, 2007)
Landscape Urbanism - Kerb 15 (Paperback) RMIT Press 2007
The Recovering of Landscape . Corner, ed. 1999. Princeton Architectural Press.
The Landscape Approach, Lassus, Bernard. 1998, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Mappings, Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), 1999, London
Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture . Weiss, Allen S., 1989, New York : Princeton Architectural Press
The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Charles Waldheim. Princeton Architectural Press; 2006
Territories: From Landscape to City . Agence Ter and Lisa Diedrich (Editor). 2008, Birkhäuser Basel
Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne by E. Kugler (Translator), James Corner (Foreword), Gilles A. Tiberghien (Contributor) 2008, Birkhäuser Basel
The New Economy of Nature. Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison, Island Press, 2003
Politics of Nature, Bruno Latour and Catherine Porter. Harvard University Press, 2004
Living Systems. Margolis/ Robinson, 2007. Built examples,
innovative materials and technologies in landscape architecture praxis.
Magazines:
Daidalos
JOLA (Journal of Landscape Architecture)
New geographies
‘ scape: The International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Topos: European Landscape Magazine
Also, you might want to check out following thematic websites on the internet:
LE:NOTRE www.le-notre.org
LE:NOTRE°Mundus Le Notre’s non- European partners network
ECLAS The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools
ELASA - European Landscape Architecture Students Association
NLA- Norwegian Landscape Architects (Students) Association
IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects
European Urban Landscape Partnership: the planning and management of the urban landscape
During the individual coaching sessions each student will be given texts and or litterature related to the topic of their assignment
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| Project assignment | Individual | Pass / fail | The students are to submit a written assignment at the end of the semester. Choose one of the themes that have been presented during the semester, and write an essay of app. 4-5 pages. Supervision will be given during the elective’s week. The assignment is due November 15 |
60 401 Landscape and Urbanism
The project, of a small or large space, is the main device architects, urbanists, landscape architects share. Designing is a process of learning by doing, a mode of thinking and advancing knowledge (Schon 1980). It is about the kind of processes, the form limit or make possible (i.e. social, environmental, economic).
Three cognitive strategies are constitutive of the designer/planner way of thinking trough designing: conceptualizing (i.e. utilizing or generating concepts), describing (i.e. reveling hidden orders) and projecting (i.e. testing hypothesis of transformation) (Vigano´ 2016). This is a useful frame to order groups of relevant techniques of design/planning the contemporary city.
The term technique refers to both the instruments and the procedures used to achieve a result (i.e. ideas, tools, chain of operations, rules) (Gabellini 2010). Techniques are `invented´ or adopted from other disciplines, modified along time, to form the toolkit of the `reflective practitioner´, that remain open to innovation.
The students will learn selected techniques of urban design/planning through lectures and critical readings of projects in collaboration.
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| Report | Individual | Pass / fail |
| Workload activity | Comment |
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| Attendance | Attendance in the studio and at fieldwork is expected |
60 526 Innovative Park Systems in Contemporary Cities.
Admission to AHO’s Master programme in Architecture or Landscape Architecture. The course is mandatory for Master’s students in Landscape Architecture. Basic knowledges in architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture are is required.
Responsible: Karin Helms
The aim of the studio is to explore how to design a park in various scales. This involves understanding the contemporary role of parks in connection to its ground, the surrounding space, and to the existing urban landscapes, and linking this to the actual current social demand and urban development. The studio will explore notions such as Park, park systems of the past, green and water infrastructure, and ground and soil fertility, as well as an initial introduction to notions related to urban agriculture.
Moreover, the studio aims to link these landscape notions to the idea of Edges and Landscape Edges – Landscape edges are transitional linear places where one space or landscape becomes part of another – and explore how these landscape edges can influence future urban “tissues”.
The site will be in the North East suburban area of Oslo, combining a macro perspective and local area development. The purpose of the park is to provide a space for recreation, food productivity, and for shared activities for the local community. The overall perspective is to enable the park at on a grand large scale to answer to the long-term demand for biodiversity in towns, and participate to new mobility axes.
The studio presents the students with a theoretical understanding and a framework for assessing and understanding the landscape issues in an urban and suburban context. It presents key concepts for designing and evaluating interventions in public spaces.
Over the course of the semester we will engage in theoretical discussion, focusing on the application of different theoretical perspectives to specific cases.
On a large scale students will learn to: understand landscape dynamics. Learn to, observe, investigate and how to transcribe landscape data over to mapping. Learn to use geologic and geographic maps, understand layers and contours, and levelling in use landscape architecture as grounding the grounds for a design. They will also learn to work in group and individually.
At SOn a smallermall scale the studio will support help the students in developingdevelop their landscape architecture-based general competences in Design design,and how to focus on Concepts. U, use an iterative mode, go throughmake use of various scales, and propose design landscape structures, forms in the landscape. They students will learn about the understanding of soil fertility in town, provide the practical and theoretical tools to design and specify the plantation.
Skills
The coursework relies on basic tools such as drawings, learnings of conceptual models, contour models, and software within landscape design in order to test their design proposal and represent spatial and material conditions. Examples of these include AutoCAD, Arc GIS, photoshop, Adobe package, and others.
We will apply various tools for mapping, analysing, and assessing sites, and gain insights about needs, challenges, and opportunities for design. Through the creative group process of integrating insights from mapping into feasible designs, students will learn key principles and tools for designing and running creative processes, both individually and in groups.
General competence
The course aims to develop the student’s ability to combine and integrate insight about the landscape in a creative process, leading to a specific design that can convincingly contribute to achieving specific development aims for the area. The questions about Edge landscape in an urban context will be one of the main topics and along with how to transform this objective into a general park system through design.
Graduating from the course, students will have developed awareness of how various aspects and factors affects a specific site and will be able to describe these factors from a theoretically informed perspective. Using more tools, analytics, models and mapping, they will be able to derive insights about the specificity of a given site and review those insights in both a theoretical and an applied perspective.
The studio is organised around four phases:
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- Group work: Large-scale analysis and diagnosis stage, mapping. References and big data research with the support of methodologic lectures. Study trip: park and garden as well as green infrastructure visits in town and suburban sites of Oslo. Draw while walking! The students will be invited to learn about the specific landscape entities thanks to landscape readings, herbarium and an understanding of phytosociology understanding. This stage ends with an interim presentation.
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- Individual work: Selection of an area within the large-scale study area for scenario development. Drafting of a clear concept for a comprehensive special design, operating at a variety of scales. Design research and visualisation. Tools: Drawings, digital and hand drawing, conceptual models, idea expressed in words. This stage ends with an interim presentation.
03 Theoretical discussions. Debate on park system’s role today and the notion of Edge landscapes. Excursion to an European city. Finland: Otaniemi, Tapiola’s urban landscapes. Course at Aalto University on forest edge management and precedents. Helsinki’s Green finger network. Visit of contemporary urban edges systems as at Arabianranta’s district. Art experience on the notion of Edge.
04 Individual work: Work through on scales. Small-scale design, elaboration and details until planting construction. Understand the role of techniques in landscape architecture and how this enable the student to further develop their concept. Notions of time and how to design time will also be addressed to the students at this stage. Transformation of the design proposal over into the large-scale project. Final presentation of the results to experts or target group.
Assessment: Continuous assessment of practical work throughout the studio time period, exercises, intermediate presentations and attendance to at the studio will be important for the assessment.
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| Project assignment | Individual | Pass / fail |
60 701 Pre-diploma for urbanism and landscape architecture
Successful completion of 60 ECTS mastesr level studies. Last Semester before diploma. The course is open to students of architecture and landscape architecture.
Students need to be present at AHO while doing their pre-diploma. Students working abroad will not be allowed to participate in the course.
The pre-diploma semester at AHO is an independent research task on a theme chosen by the candidate. In consultation with the course teacher, fellow students and a chosen advisor, the candidate is to produce a report that details a topic to be studied, an approach or methodology, a spatial program and a plan of work. This report is the foundation of the diploma work.
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired the necessary knowledge to proceed with the independent diploma assignment: ∙ An understanding of the complexity of a chosen urban or landscape site and topic ∙ An ability to frame artistic and scientific research ∙ An understanding of the given natural, social, cultural and technological conditions that govern urban or landscape design work ∙ An awareness of the topic’s historical, societal, theoretical and methodological ramifications ∙ An ability to communicate ideas and plan work ∙ An understanding of one’s own individual position with the discipline
The course is an individual research assignment with group discussions and interim presentations of the different research components. It concludes with a pre-diploma report containing the following elements: - Topic description - Site presentation - Maps of selected issues - Reviews and discussions of relevant literature - Summaries and discussions of interviews with experts - Reference projects presentations and discussions
| Mandatory coursework | Courseworks required | Presence required | Comment |
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| Presence required | Not required | Presentation of exercises in the group, individual supervision |
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| Report | Individual | Pass / fail |
| Workload activity | Comment |
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| Written assignments |