The course focuses on the landscape resulting from human interventions within its habitat. The landscape concept implies the existence of a cultural experience; the landscape must be interpreted or experienced. Only through the knowledge of the relationships that are established between landscape and experience, as well as those of the agents causing these relationships, will it be possible to understand the existing landscape and its creative renewal.
Campos Venuti defined the habitat as “the whole system, complex and extensive, which in society is found above and below the simple dwelling (…). The habitat model must encompass as a whole all those environmental structures, artificial and natural, which in cities and the countryside host the development of life in common and determine its character”(Campos Venuti, 1981: 177).
The course tries to introduce the student to the knowledge of the elements that form the landscape and the relationships that are established between them. The objective is to provide students with the necessary tools to integrate landscape and environmentally sustainable criteria in their architecture and urban planning projects, as well as to collaborate effectively in multidisciplinary teams in processes of habitat transformation, understood as the space in which humans dwell, works and uses.
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