Studio 1
Landscape Studio 1: Design Techniques
Wendy Walls
Studio Description
This subject is the first studio in the 300-point Master of Landscape Architecture, introducing approaches and techniques for thinking about, exploring, and generating landscape design. The studio equips students with a range of design techniques including graphic analysis, sketching, physical model making and 3-D surface manipulation. The studio positions these techniques alongside contemporary theory for engaging with landscape design processes.
Studio Outcomes
The studio focuses on a selection of sites within Melbourne. Investigating and designing the sites introduces contextual issues of ecology, culture, public space, and urbanism. Across the studio students will interrogate these thematic and explore techniques for generating new spatial landform. At the end of the subject, students will be able to;
- Apply a range of design processes, skills and techniques for exploring sites and generating designed outcomes;
- Apply representational skills, with an emphasis on digital media;
- Understand design as a process;
- Have an emerging understanding of the scope and characteristics of contemporary landscape architecture;
- Apply critical thinking and problem solving to the issues of designing landscape.
Studio Leaders
Landscape Studio One is run by Wendy Walls. She is a lecturer in Landscape Architectural design. Her research and teaching focuses on the use of data and digital technologies for designing with dynamic climatic phenomena in external open space, innovative design methodologies and interdisciplinary practices. Outcomes from her research and teaching have been presented at a number of peer-reviewed international events including the Digital Landscape Architecture conference, the Architectural Science Association conference, CELA and Landscape as Necessity.
Readings & References
Interesting and useful readings for this subject include;
- Bowring, J. (2020). Landscape Architecture Criticism, Routledge.
- Cantrell, B., & Michaels, W. (2015). Digital drawing for landscape architecture: contemporary techniques and tools for digital representation in site design. John Wiley & Sons.
- Dee. (2012). To design landscape: art, nature & utility. Routledge.
- Girot, C. (1999). Four trace concepts in landscape architecture. In Recovering landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture (pp. 59–68). Princeton.
- Herrington, S. (2016). Landscape Theory in Design. Routledge.
- Walliss, J. and H. Rahmann (2016). Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising design and making. New York, Routledge.
- Waterman, T. (2015). The fundamentals of landscape architecture. Fairchild books.
Schedule Mondays 16:15-19:15, Wednesdays 16:15-19:15; Mondays 17:00-20:00, Wednesdays 18:15-21:15 | Lecture Mondays 10:00-12:00