Studio L1: Environmental Design
X116 (2 semester units in Landscape Architecture)
This course provides an introduction to site-specific design projects, with emphasis on both small and large-scale projects. Through lectures, discussions, a series of exercises, and studio critiques, students receive an introduction to basic design vocabulary, approaches, and concepts of spatial order, scale, complexity, perception, and visual thinking.
Prerequisites: Principles and Elements of Design X412.1; Landscape Graphics I X15; Landscape Graphics II X17; one course in plant materials and applications; and Gardens, Parks, and Urban Open Spaces I (X416) and II (X418).
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Tues. June 3, San Francisco
JOHN F. THOMAS, M.L.A., has been a landscape architect with the City and County of San Francisco since 1986, where he has designed numerous urban parks and other urban public open spaces throughout the city. He has taught at UC Berkeley Extension since 1986.
- 15 meetings
- June 3 to Aug. 26: Tues., 6:30-9:30 pm (no meeting Aug. 19)
- San Francisco: Room 203, South of Market Center, 95 Third St.
- $590 (EDP 024059)
Field trips are scheduled for Saturday, June 7 and June 21.
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
Author: Francis D.K. Ching
ISBN: 0-471-28616-8
Courses begin every month. A new edition of our catalog is published
three times a year in early April, July and December.