Constructing ecologies engages with the key principles of ecology as a fundamental requirement for landscape architectural practice. The focus is on ecosystem function at various scales. Typical topics include habitats, biodiversity, urban greening and urban ecologies of place, changing rural ecologies, wetlands and stormwater design strategies, environmental history informing landscape architecture, lighting as a constructed ecology , and the redirective return brief. The course will address case studies from around the world as illustrations of ecological principles informing design. A range of environments with differing ecological issues or systems will be explored in a field trip (of... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: Enrolment in the 200- or 300-point Master of Landscape Architecture.
