HKU-Landscape-Annual-2013-14

MLA
ARCH7501
Intensive
Prerequisite Course
Instructors:
Matthew Pryor, Gavin Coates,
Ivan Valin, Scott Jennings
Melbourne, Melissa Cate
Christ, Ian Fan Qi, Seth
Denizen, Maxime Decaudin
MLA
Intensive
Prerequisite Course
The MLA program started with a specially constructed
two week intensive course that introduced students to
the research methods, analytical processes and graphic
representational skills that underpin an education in landscape
architecture at HKU, and marked the beginning of their
exploration of the unique biophysical systems of Hong Kong,
and the history of its settlement and urbanisation.
Amidst a flurry of lectures, workshops, sharing sessions with
invited professional practitioners, site visits, and a number
of lengthy rambles through the city and the countryside,
students engaged in two detailed studies of landscapes in the
Territory. In the first they undertook a series of case studies
on newly-constructed urban courtyards within the city. In
the second, they researched, mapped and analysed examples
of common landscape types and their relation to natural and
built contexts.
Students were introduced to key issues and principles relating
to the natural and built environments within the local and
regional contexts, and made aware of projects, people, and
practices within the landscape, architectural and urban
design disciplines in Hong Kong in order to gain insight into the
potential role of the landscape architect in constructing the
relationship between communities and their environments.
MLA
Prerequisite
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Ffion Zihui ZHANG,
Grace Yan ZHANG,
Anna Yin Kiu WONG
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