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Fall 2007
LA 402 Urban Design Studio
Instructor: Heidi Hohmann
Students in this course will be working in Sioux City on the I-29 relocation and re/establishing connections to downtown Sioux City. Students will do a lot of analysis prior to the design work, and anticipate this will be a semester-long project, in conjunction with another "parallel" project. While the "big picture" design is important, it will be important that the students can make some connection between large scale and smaller scale design. This will be an exciting project for Sioux City and ISU.
The Landscape Architecture Savanna Studio will also weave its way into Siouxland!
LA 201 Traveling Studio: Savanna Landscape Studies
Instructors: Peter Butler, Bridget Belkacemi, Gary Hightshoe
The 2007 Savanna Traveling Studio is a traveling course encompassing the fall semester of the second-year curriculum in the department of landscape architecture at Iowa State University. The semester includes six weeks of travel. A main component of the semester's curriculum is Landscape Architecture 201, essentially a course about observing and representing the landscape. It is taught concurrently with four other courses in a traveling studio that flows through the Savanna eco-geographic region. The Savanna is a north-south corridor running from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, a swath of land defined and shaped by geomorphology, vegetation, climate and human culture.
The major goal of the studio is to observe and record the landscape--all aspects, including landform, architecture, culture, vegetation. The course teaches new methods and techniques for accomplishing this. As the students' ability to "read," describe and record the landscape improves, their understanding and appreciation of the regional landscape increases. In addition, students are taught how ideas of site and landscape/culture can be used as inspiration for design and as a part of the design process. In other words, this studio sharpens skills, provides experiences and generates ideas that students will need for understanding and designing new sites and landscapes in the future.
In addition to learning about representation and design, other topics covered in material learned in the other courses (LA 221, LA 272, LA 281, LA 241) inform the studio. These are:
- Tourism and travel
- Landscape change within and between regions
- Vernacular vs. designed landscapes
- Phenomenology of site and region
- Savanna landscape
- Landform morphology
- The road as an American narrative
- Ruin and memory
- Industrial and military landscapes
- Sub-cultural landscape regions
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