Course outline Introduction to Landscape Architecture: Combining design elements to

design landscape. Identifying variables in landscape design.

History of Landscape Architecture: Landscape Paintings, sculpture gardens,

environmental sculptures, Urban landscape, landscape photography,

Palace of Versailles and Mediterranean Garden in France

Mughal Gardens: Shalimar Garden, Concept of char bagh, inspirations from

Quranic Verses, Miniature paintings depicting landscape.

Japanese gardens: Otsu, Japan. Zen Gardens. woodlands

Chinese gardens:

Herb gardens: Warwickshire, England. Monastery gardens in England

Green Roof garden: Ventimiglia, Italy

Spring Plants and their application

Autumn Plants and their application

Landscape design for small and Large spaces in design studio:

understanding of form, shape and scale while designing walk ways, use of
material for hard and soft landscape, divide/design a larger site, use of intervals
and barriers,

Formal and informal landscape designs: Neighborhood design, social

factors in environmental design, Escorial Formal garden in Madrid, Spain.

Environmental Analysis in Design Studio: Site planning, Digital Visualizing

tools,

Landscape Structures: canopy, gazebo, entrance design, garden lighting, uses

of steps, use of color in landscape. Patterns in the landscape

Aesthetic and Sensory structures and materials: textures, density, time,

light, visual inertia,

Unity and Diversity of landscape elements.