Code: 127LAHE Landscape Heritage
Lecturer: Jan Hendrych Weekly load: 3C Completion: EX
Department: 11127 Credits: 4 Semester: W,S
Description:
Cultural, historical, natural, and ecological processes traditionally shape the human environment, our shared cultural landscape heritage. The course will reveal intrinsic values, functions, and character, and the appropriate conservation techniques and strategies for urban landscape heritage protection.
Contents:
Seminars and especially the relevant field excursions will take three hours weekly, (the presence of students is also a part of the final evaluation). Students will independently work on their own chosen subject of study in the form of a thematic essay that will be consulted during and submitted at the end of the semester.

Thematic areas of seminars and excursions:

1. Urban landscapes
2. Landscape urbanism, Urban park systems
3. Brownfields, rehabilitation, revitalization
4. Post-industrial landscapes, Mining, and quarrying, Re-naturalization, Natural processes
5. Landscape memory, Landscape as a palimpsest, Landscape narrative
6. Landscape character, assessment, care, and protection
7. Natural and rural landscapes, Natural forces
8. Historic cultural landscapes, Landscape cultivation, Landscape archaeology
9. Landscape aesthetics, Perception of landscape structures and spaces
Seminar contents:
Independent practical research and critical study paper (essay) preparation differ from student to student, but generally, it could involve another two to three hours weekly.

Thematic areas of excursions, a selection from localities:

The White Mountain plain and The Royal Game Preserve.
Former brickwork and restored homestead Kotláøka.
Hanspaulka, ©árka valley, Baba colony.
Geology, Biogeography, Hydrology, Landscape character, and Cultural and historical aspects.
Dejvice, Støe¹ovice, Oøechovka - Urban structures and their transformations.
The system of green spaces and public greenery, Tree lines and avenues, and Structured systems of linear vegetation.

Brownfield regeneration sites in Prague to be visited individually:
®i¾kov freight station, Karlin Barracks - example of temporary use, exhibition, summer cinema, café, gallery
Pragovka - example of temporary use (already well-developed and about the most considerable area known), cafes, shows
Corso Karlín - former boiler room, today a noble administrative building from Bofill
Machine House - former power station, today offices, studios, accessible courtyard
Forum Karlín - former CKD Dukla, an administrative and cultural center today, the courtyard and the café accessible, the hall would be possible on agreement
DOX Gallery - former machine factory, a successful gallery today


Recommended literature:
Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Genius loci. Rizzoli, 1991.
Free PDF: genius-loci-towards-a-phenomenology-of-architecture-d86177309.html

Goodchild Peter: Landscape Heritage, Biosphere Change, Climate Change, and Conservation. Heritage at Risk 2006/2007.

Council of Europe, The European Landscape Convention.
Florence, 20 October 2000.
www.coe.int/europeanlandscapeconvention
www.coe.int/conventioneuropeenedupaysage

Newton, T. Norman. Design on the Land. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1972.
Jellicoe, Geofrey, Susan. Landscape of Man, shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day. Thames and Hudson, London, 1975.
Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. Random House, New York, 1996.
Jan Gehl: Cities for People.
Philipp Oswalt, Klause Overmeyer a Philipp Misselwitz: Urban Catalyst.

Keywords:
Landscape Heritage, Biosphere Change, Climate Change, Conservation

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