ABSTRACT

Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and LE: NOTRE, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape provides a wide-ranging overview of teaching landscape subjects, from geology to landscape design, reflecting different perspectives and practices at university-level landscape curricula. Focusing on the didactics of landscape education, this fully illustrated handbook presents and discusses pedagogy, teaching traditions, experimental teaching methods and new teaching principles.

The book is structured into three parts: reading the landscape, representing the landscape and transforming the landscape. Contributions from leading experts in the field, such as Simon Bell, Marc Treib, Jörg Rekittke and Susan Herrington, explore landscape analysis, history and theory, design visualisation, creativity and art, planning studio teaching, field trips and site engineering. Aimed at engaging academic researchers and instructors across disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, ecology, planning and archaeology, this book is a must-have guide to landscape pedagogy as it stands today.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introducing hope

Landscape architecture and utopian pedagogy

part I|192 pages

Reading the landscape

chapter 2|16 pages

‘What . . . is landscape?’

Asking questions of landscapes through design drawings

chapter 6|15 pages

Learning-by-filming

A method to introduce non-LA students to landscape reading

chapter 7|12 pages

Landscape is more than the sum of its parts

Teaching an understanding of landscape complexity

chapter 8|17 pages

The studio as an arena for democratic landscape change

Toward a transformative pedagogy for landscape architecture

chapter 10|11 pages

Attention and devotion

chapter 11|13 pages

Time out!

Thirty years of experiences from outdoor landscape teaching

chapter 14|9 pages

Teaching design critique

chapter 15|14 pages

Values and transformative learning

On teaching landscape history in a community of inquiry

chapter 16|13 pages

The landscape of landscape history

part II|72 pages

Representing the landscape

chapter 20|8 pages

Back to basics

Writing for design professionals

chapter 21|16 pages

Exercising drawing time

chapter 22|10 pages

Landscapes as co-construction of knowledge

Implications on the classroom

part III|111 pages

Transforming the landscape

chapter 26|13 pages

Reaching out in teaching landscape

Engagement and service from the studio

chapter 27|14 pages

Cultivating the city

Instilling urban design in landscape architectural education

chapter 29|14 pages

On-site learning

chapter 30|15 pages

By land, by air, by sea