For a landscape architect is keen to train a vision focused not only on the project itself, but also on the relationship between design and natural and built environment. The capacity of seeing outside the project characterizes the subject, and has defined the topics around which the education has been developed over time, addressing towards inputs and teaching methods coming from different fields. This is particularly clear in the history of Landscape Architecture in the USA from the mid-Twentieth Century to nowadays, read back through the “lesson” of some of the American masters of landscape architecture, for whom the teaching experience has been linked to a pioneering and militant approach in the ethics of design. This paper seeks to address the topic of teaching Landscape Architecture in American schools through multi-faceted contributions of I. McHarg, J.B. Jakson, J.D. Hunt and L. Lawson, which has been oriented towards the fields of ecology, cultural geography, theory and criticism, or urban agriculture. Their teaching in Landscape Design schools, their academic engagement and their militant and dissemination work, has defined the theoretical backgrounds of a discipline that has formed the latest generations of designers, through raising awareness towards a more ethical relationship between design and environmental resilience.
Nella formazione dell’architetto del paesaggio è fondamentale la capacità di visione non solo interna al progetto ma anche dei suoi rapporti con l’ambiente naturale e antropico. Una capacità, quella del saper vedere fuori dal progetto, che caratterizza la disciplina e che ha definito i termini attorno ai quali ne è stata organizzata la didattica negli USA dalla metà del Novecento ad oggi, orientata verso apporti e metodi provenienti da ambiti diversi. Ciò è particolarmente evidente nella lezione di alcuni tra i maestri americani dell’architettura del paesaggio, per i quali l’esperienza didattica è stata legata ad un approccio pionieristico e militante nell’etica del progetto. Questo saggio intende affrontare questo tema attraverso i contributi multi-direzionati e orientati verso le discipline dell’ecologia, della geografia culturale, della teoria e critica, o dell’agricoltura urbana di I. McHarg, J.B. Jakson, J.D. Hunt e L. Lawson. Il loro insegnamento nelle scuole di Landscape Design, il loro impegno in ambito accademico e la loro opera militante e divulgativa, ha definito gli ambiti teorici di una disciplina che ha formato le più recenti generazioni di progettisti, sensibilizzando verso un rapporto più etico tra progetto e resilienza ambientale.
Tra teoria ed etica del progetto. Traiettorie di ricerca nell’insegnamento dell’Architettura del Paesaggio negli USA nella seconda metà del Novecento / Neglia, G. A.. - In: QUAD. - ISSN 2611-4437. - STAMPA. - 1:(2018), pp. 157-172.
Tra teoria ed etica del progetto. Traiettorie di ricerca nell’insegnamento dell’Architettura del Paesaggio negli USA nella seconda metà del Novecento
Neglia G. A.
2018-01-01
Abstract
For a landscape architect is keen to train a vision focused not only on the project itself, but also on the relationship between design and natural and built environment. The capacity of seeing outside the project characterizes the subject, and has defined the topics around which the education has been developed over time, addressing towards inputs and teaching methods coming from different fields. This is particularly clear in the history of Landscape Architecture in the USA from the mid-Twentieth Century to nowadays, read back through the “lesson” of some of the American masters of landscape architecture, for whom the teaching experience has been linked to a pioneering and militant approach in the ethics of design. This paper seeks to address the topic of teaching Landscape Architecture in American schools through multi-faceted contributions of I. McHarg, J.B. Jakson, J.D. Hunt and L. Lawson, which has been oriented towards the fields of ecology, cultural geography, theory and criticism, or urban agriculture. Their teaching in Landscape Design schools, their academic engagement and their militant and dissemination work, has defined the theoretical backgrounds of a discipline that has formed the latest generations of designers, through raising awareness towards a more ethical relationship between design and environmental resilience.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.