1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education
In this handbook, 60 authors, senior and junior educators, and researchers from six continents provide an overview of 200 years of landscape architectural education. They tell the stories of schools and people, of visions, and of experiments that constitute landscape architecture education heritage.
Through taking an international perspective, the handbook centers inclusivity with an appreciation for how education develops in different political and societal contexts. Part I introduces the field of education history research, including research approaches and international research exchange. Spanning more than 100 years, Parts II and III investigate and compare early and recent histories of landscape architecture education in different countries and schools. In Part IV, the book offers new perspectives for landscape architecture education. Education research presents a substantial opportunity for challenging studies to increase the pedagogic and didactic, the academic and historic, and the disciplinary knowledge basis.
Through a boundary-crossing approach, these studies about landscape architecture education provide a reference to teachers and students, policymakers, and administrators, who strive for innovative, holistic, and interdisciplinary practice.
1. Broadening the outlook, expanding horizons
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
PART I: Challenges and perspectives
2. Introducing the field of landscape architecture education research: challenges and perspectives
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
3. ‘A thing in movement’: landscape history in professional curricula
M. Elen Deming
4. Tracing discourses: learning from the past for future landscape architecture
Mattias Qviström and Märit Jansson
5. European cooperation between educators and landscape architecture schools
Richard Stiles
6. Building up historical continuity: landscape architecture archives in education
Lilli Lička, Bernadette Blanchon, Luca Csepely-Knorr, Annegreth Dietze-Schirdewahn, Ulrike Krippner, Katalin Tákács, Sophie von Schwerin and Roland Tusch
7. Joining forces: landscape architecture and education for sustainable development
Ellen Fetzer
8. Creating vital teaching communities through curriculum development
Anne Katrine Geelmuyden
9. Conceptual thinking and relational models in landscape architecture pedagogy
Juanjo Galán
10. Pedagogy for sustainability in landscape architectural education
Dan Li
PART II: Agendas and standards
11. Chronicling education history: agendas and standards
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
12. Early landscape architectural education in Europe
Barbara Birli, Diedrich Bruns and Karsten Jørgensen (†)
13. Landscape gardening, outdoor art, and landscape architecture: the beginning of landscape architectural education in the United States, 1862–1920
Sonja Dümpelmann
14. Hundred years of landscape architecture education in Ås, Norway: the pioneering work of Olav Leif Moen
Karsten Jørgensen (†)
15. German garden design education in the early 20th century
Lars Hopstock
16. Landscape architecture university education under National Socialism in Germany
Gert Gröning
17. ‘To broaden the outlook of training’: the first landscape course in Manchester
Luca Csepely-Knorr
18. Landscape architecture education history in Portugal: the pioneering roles of Francisco Caldeira Cabral and Francisco Simões Margiochi
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
19. Dutch landscape architecture education in the first half of the twentieth century: the pioneering roles of Hartogh Heys Van Zouteveen and Bijhouwer.
Patricia Debie
20. Early history of landscape architecture education initiatives in Romania: the pioneering work of Friedrich Rebhuhn
Alexandru Mexi
21. Landscape architectural education in Croatia
Petra Pereković and Monika Kamenečki
22. Landscape architectural education in Hungary: the pioneering work of Béla Rerrich, Imre Ormos and Mihály Mőcsényi.
Albert Fekete
23. Landscape architecture education history in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Attila Tóth, Ján Supuka, Katarína Kristiánová, Jan Vaněk, Alena Salašová, and Vladimír Sitta
24. A long, yet successful journey: 114 years to implement a landscape architecture programme in Austria, 1877–1991
Ulrike Krippner and Lilli Lička
25. Landscape architecture education history in the German speaking part of Switzerland
Sophie von Schwerin
26. The history of higher landscape architecture education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dunja Richter
PART III: Broadening the common ground
27. Broadening the common ground: education for the design of human environments
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
28. Landscape architecture education in Italy: fragmented patterns
Bianca Maria Rinaldi and Francesca Mazzino
29. The training of landscape architects in France: from the horticultural engineer to the landscape architect, 1876-2016
Bernadette Blanchon, Chiara Santini and Pierre Donadieu, with Yves Petit-Berghem
30. Reflections on landscape and landscape architecture education in the Arab Middle East
Jala Makhzoumi
31. Landscape Architecture Education in China: the pioneering work of Sun Xiaoxiang
Lei Gao and Guangsi Lin
32. Landscape design education in Japan: the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Periods
Chika Takatori
PART IV: Aiming for justice, reconciliation and decolonization
33. Innovating education policy: justice, reconciliation and decolonization
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
34. Landscape architecture education in Albania after the fall of the Iron Curtain
Zydi Teqja
35. Landscape architectural education, knowledge, and application
Agnieszka Cieśla and Katarzyna Rędzińska
36. Landscape @Lincoln: place and context in the development of an antipodean landscape architecture programme.
Simon Swaffield, Jacky Bowring and Gill Lawson
37. Learning to practice creatively: emergent techniques in the climate emergency
Alice Lewis, Sue Anne Ware, Martin Bryant, Jen Lynch, Penny Allan and Katrina Simon
38. Landscape architecture education in Africa
Graham A. Young
39. Educational ecosystem on landscape in Latin América
Gloria Aponte-García, Cristina Felsenhardt, Lucas Períes and Karla María Hinojosa De la Garza
40. Conclusions and hopeful perspectives
Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke
Biography
Diedrich Bruns is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research expertise is in planning history, landscape planning, and communication methods. His academic appointments include universities in Toronto, Canada; Stuttgart, Germany; and California and Minnesota, USA. Dr Bruns has published several peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, and books. He is founder of the consulting firm Landscape Ecology & Planning, and a past president of ECLAS.
Stefanie Hennecke is Professor for Open Space Planning at the University of Kassel, Germany. She has a doctoral degree from the University of the Arts, Berlin. Until 2013 she was junior professor of history and theory of landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich. Her research topics are the history of urban green spaces in the 19th and 20th centuries and the development of adaptable urban green spaces for people and wildlife. In 2021, she edited a book on the impact of Covid-19 on public open spaces.
"This book provides welcome perspectives on the education of landscape professionals that generate both a starting point for a more profound understanding of the historical position of landscape architecture, as well as ideas of where the profession might take us in view of the contemporary environmental and social challenges facing humanity."
Jan Woudstra, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK
"This comprehensive handbook shares insights into landscape architecture education that are unprecedented in extent and depth. It describes and compares concepts and practices of education that are applied during the last two hundred years and addresses a wide range of perspectives by examining cases from around the world. The book lays the foundation for education studies into the character, commonalities and future of landscape architecture education."
Hiroyuki Shimizu, Emeritus Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
"This handbook makes an invaluable contribution to the present and future university education of landscape architects. It offers fascinating insights of both the discipline’s historical development and of its current teaching and learning praxis in many countries around the world: a panorama of today’s remarkable international diversity in landscape architecture education that unveils its implicit learning potential, not only for landscape architecture but also for other planning disciplines and environmental sciences."
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Professor Emeritus, Instutute for Landscape Architecture, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
