Landscape Architecture :: David Streatfield

Faculty

Robert Buchanan
Richard Haag
Norman Johnston
Sally Schauman
David Streatfield
Robert Small

DAVID STREATFIELD

COURSES TAUGHT

LARCH 495: ITALIAN LANDSCAPE STUDIES
An intensive Field studies course based in Rome at the University of Washington's Rome Center in the Palazzo Pio. The core of the program is an integrated series of analytical exercises focussing on the topography of Rome and other cities in Tuscany and on the Naples Peninsula, and historic gardens. This is not a studio based class, but provides intensive experiences of the Italian landscape through instruction in Italian, lectures on the Italian landscape urban history and the history of Italian gardens as well as observation and analysis through drawing exercises.

LARCH 471: HISTORY OF URBAN DESIGN
A lecture class surveying Urban Design western developments from the Classical period through the Nineteenth Century compared with several non-western cultural and design traditions, including Hindu India, China, Japan, and the Islamic countries. The course focuses on those aspects of the form, pattern and spatial character of urban areas by which communities and designers have expressed the values of their time as acts of design. Special emphasis is given to the degree to which these creative acts can be seen as pragmatic practices or as works of art. The influences of climate and landscape processes are considered together with religious and intellectual values, and social, economic, political, aesthetic and technical processes.