LA 166 THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
		SCHEDULE OF LECTURES
8-Jan		Course Introduction/ Syllabus Review/ Student Photos
		Student Profiles
10-Jan		HistoricPrecedents: (Italy, France, English)
12-Jan		Historic Precedents
15-Jan		No Class
17-Jan		Ancients: Greece and Rome
19-Jan		Ancients: Greece and Rome
22-Jan		Middle Ages
24-Jan		Renaissance Progress in Italy (Film)
26-Jan		Elements of Italian Garden Style: Villa Gamberaia, Villa Castello
29-Jan		Renaissance Progress in Italy: The Villas and Gardens of Tuscany
		The Medici Family: Villa Medici Fiesole, Villa Castello, Boboli Gardens
31-Jan		Renaissance Progress in Italy: The Villas and Gardens of Rome
		Villa D'Este, Villa Lante
2-Feb		Gardens of the Italian Baroque
		Villa Garzoni, Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo
5-Feb		Modern Variations
		The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
7-Feb		Urban Places and Spaces: The Piazze of Italy
		Piazza San Pietro, Piazza Navona, Piazza Campidoglio, Piazza della Signoria
		Piazza di Spagna
9-Feb		Urban Places and Spaces: The Piazze of Italy
12-Feb		Exam I
14-Feb		Elements of French Garden Style
		The Theory and Form of the French Garden (Film)
16-Feb		Exam Review/The Genius of André Le Nôtre
		Vaux le Vicomte/Versailles
19-Feb		Glory & Grandeur
		The Gardens of Versailles
21-Feb		Modern Variations
		The Miller Garden, Columbus, Indiana
23-Feb		Urban Places and Spaces: French Parks and Public Gardens
		Jardin des Tuileries, Jardin du Luxembourg, Jardin des Plantes
26-Feb		The Landscaping of England (Film)
28-Feb		Elements of English Garden Style
2-Mar		The Renaissance in England
		Hampton Court
5-Mar		The Early 18th c. English Landscape Garden
		Stourhead, Rousham
7-Mar		The English Landscape Garden
		The Work of Capability Brown
9-Mar		The Influence of Travel and a Taste for Exotics (Victorian England)
		Biddulph Grange
12-Mar		No Class: Spring Break
14-Mar		No Class: Spring Break
16-Mar		No Class: Spring Break
19-Mar		The English Flower Garden
		William Robinson, Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville West
		Hestercombe & Sissinghurst
21-Mar		The English Flower Garden
23-Mar		Modern Variations
		The English Walled Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
26-Mar		Exam 2
28-Mar		The American Landscape
		A. J. Downing
30-Mar		The American Landscape
		Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park (Film)
2-Apr		The American Landscape
		Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park (Film)
4-Apr		The American Landscape
		The Country Place Era: Jens Jensen and "The Prairie Style Landscape" (Film)
6-Apr		Modernism
		Thomas Church/The Harvard Trio: Kiley, Eckbo, Rose
9-Apr		The Environmental Movement
		Multiply and Subdue the Earth: Ian McHarg (Part One)
11-Apr		Monuments and Memorials (Film)
		Maya Lin: Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, Washington, D.C.
13-Apr		Monuments and Memorials (Film)
		Lawrence Halprin, Designer, FDR Memorial, Washington, D.C.
16-Apr		Artful Landscapes and Landscape as Art
		Roberto Burle Marx, Martha Schwartz
18-Apr		Exam III
20-Apr		Exam Review/Gardens of China and Japan
23-Apr		Profiles in Landscape Architecture
		The Work of 20th/21st Century Landscape Architects
25-Apr		Profiles in Landscape Architecture
		The Work of 20th/21st Century Landscape Architects
27-Apr		Profiles in Landscape Architecture
		The Work of 20th/21st Century Landscape Architects
30-Apr		Final Exams
		Note: Schedule of Lectures is subject to change.