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The importance of architectural knowledge in education of landscape architects

The relation of architecture and landscape architecture professions is commonplace in everyday discussions of experts from both fields, prejudicial in the sense that these professions clash on projects concerning the open space design, especially the urban space and/or the space predominantly determined by buildings. In the education of landscape architects (as well as architects) it is important to make a distinction between assignments/tasks that can be predominantly addressed to one of the two professions and those which include (or should include) both professions in a close collaboration. For the past six years, the School of landscape architecture in Zagreb, has been offering on 2nd year of master programme an elective course mentored by a professor architect and in collaboration with a professor landscape architect in which we try to put students in the role of being professionals from both fields at the same time. We have tried this model on a few different design projects. After gaining a basic knowledge of architectural design, in a simplified manner, students need to make a conceptual design of the building and, at the same time, design the surrounding landscape. In this paper, the authors/mentors will elaborate their views on the benefits and limitations of such an integral approach to the relation of a building with its interior and its surrounding open space/landscape and will show the results of this approach on specific examples – students' projects.

architectural design, landscape design, building – landscape relation

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