- Docente: Alberto Minelli
- Credits: 3
- SSD: AGR/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Protection of Plants and Vegetal Products (cod. 0006)
Learning outcomes
Students are expected to have an overall grasp of the developement of historical gardens so as to be able to schedule maintenance and restoration of plantings via current techniques, technology and services, including irrigation and weed control; and to understand the history of park, garden and green area design and planning in the 20th century so as to be able to evaluate and appropiately design and gardens to meet community demands, with emphasis on such issues as pollution and noise abatement. Students will also be expected to design a green area using CAD techniques and compute survey measurements;to know different species and cv. of ornamental plants and grasses for swards, how to undertake plantings and their maintenance; how to maintain woody plant species (tree and bush training systems and mintenance, tree surgery, assessing tree stability with different techniques).
Course contents
The course provides an overview of the role and historical development of gardens, including: pre-historic, ancient Egyptian, Arab and monastery gardens, Renaissance gardens in Italy and beyond the Alps; gardens of the 1500s & 1600s; the Baroque; country gardens. Urban greening: history and issues; works of the great names in landscape design of the 19th & 20th centuries: the New Towns (Olmstead, Le Courbousier, Hermann Mattern, Robert Irwin; the School of Versailles: Clément, Chemétoff, Provost,). Basic principles of design: preliminary study; surveying; types of gardens & parks; proportions; sub-division of spaces; colour; form & volume; viewpoint and surrounding area; forms; defense & protection against climatic events. Roads. Species. Noise & acoustic barriers. Non-green decorative materials. Rock gardens; hanging gardens. Green materials (trees, bushes, shrubs & grasses). Design. CAD techniques. Use of ornamental plants & green swards. Growth & shapes of plants. Plant selection for urban environments; roadway and motorway plantings. Green swards (general principles, formation, maintenance; technical green swarding). Training & selection of ornamentals; maintenance (pruning during training & maintenance of trees & bushes; tree surgery; tree stability assessment via different methods).
Readings/Bibliography
Chiusoli A., La scienza del paesaggio. Bologna,CLUEB 1999
- Lesson handouts on conferences and seminars.
A.Toccolini- Piano e progetto di area verde- Maggioli Editore,2002
Teaching methods
Contact lessons are lectures on topics that provide in-depth treatment of specific subjects mentioned on the reading list and field trips.
Assessment methods
Students will sit an informal oral on at least three topics covered in the syllabus, emphasis being placed on attainment of the course objectives .
The oral is structured so that if, in comparison to the others, an individual student deems herself or himself to be less than fully prepared, he or she can ask to sit the oral at another time for a better mark.
The oral is specifically designed to check from a practical point of view a student’s real professional potential.
Teaching tools
Videos, PC, overhead projector, slides.
Office hours
See the website of Alberto Minelli