Meets the following requirements: AD

Historic preservation has been and is increasingly important to environmental design.  The protection of cultural resources provides diversity, variety, continuity, and unity.  In recent years a more comprehensive understanding of the values of these resources to society has been emerging and the definition of cultural resources has expanded to include landscapes and settings of significance.  At the same time, the involvement of environmental design professionals is dramatically increasing.  In this course we examine the issues, history, theories, legislation, and procedures associated with the developing multidisciplinary specialty of cultural landscape preservation.  Several case studies are presented.  Students apply the new guidelines to campus gardens to develop preservation plan, planting plans, and an implementation strategy.  They then execute the first phase of the chosen treatment or combination of treatments (preservation, stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, reconstruction, or adaptive reuse).

Level:   Advanced.  Prerequisites:  Previous design studio (architecture or landscape architecture) or permission of instructor.  Some horticultural knowledge recommended.  Offered every other year.  *AD*