The course aims to provide cultural tools and explain work methods for facing surveys, analysis, restoration and active conservation of historical parks and gardens on different design scales. Specific attention will be paid to reading and interpreting the existing historical vegetal framework and botanical palette, to enhance them, integrating in a contemporary inventive conservation.
C. Acidini, M. Azzi Visentini, F. Cardini, M.Dantini, G.Galletti, C. Lodari, T. Matteini, M.Treib, Giardini. L’arte del verde attraverso i secoli, Giunti, Firenze 2005.
Particularly:
Giorgio Galletti, Tessa Matteini, Tra Rinascimento e Maniera. Il giardino del Cinquecento, pagg. 36- 71
Giorgio Galletti, Tessa Matteini, Dal giardino barocco al parco paesaggistico, pagg . 72-109
Tessa Matteini, (a cura di), Glossario, pagg. 268-275
Tessa Matteini, Paesaggi del tempo. Documenti archeologici e rovine artificiali nel disegno del giardino e del paesaggio, Alinea, Firenze, 2009.
Tessa Matteini, “I tempi del giardino. Note sulla cultura del restauro nel giardino italiano”, in “Rivista del Dipartimento di Culture Comparate dell’Università per Stranieri di Perugia”, Guerra edizioni, Perugia 2010, pagg 39-58.
Luigi Latini, Tessa Matteini, "Manuale di coltivazione pratica e poetica per la cura dei luoghi storici e archeologici nel Mediterraneo", Il Poligrafo, Padova 2017.
Learning Objectives
Knolewdge acquired:
Evolution, topics and figurative models of garden art’s history;
Vegetal features in formal gardens and in landscape gardens;
Methods of analysis for reading and interpreting historic gardens;
Design criteria for restoration and active conservation of historic gardens and open spaces
Criteria for maintenance and management of historic parks and gardens;
Competence acquired:
Evaluation of historical heritage in park and gardens;
Understanding opportunities in conservation and restoration of historic gardens;
Defining historical, thematic and functional systems of spaces, aimed to design a restoration/management master plan;
Working on a maintenance/management plan of historic garden.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Survey and graphic communication (plan, sections, sketches, views) of historic gardens and of its components (vegetation, architecture and furniture, hydraulic systems and water features, paths, paving and edges);
Identification of botanic species used in vegetal features of formal gardens and landscape gardens in Central Italy;
Graphic representation of visual and perceptive analysis into a historic place;
Preparation of master plan and design documents for restoring and conserving historic garden.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 52
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 32
lectures and design laboratory
Contact hours for: Laboratory (hours): 50
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours):
visits and surveys to historic gardens 16
Seminars (hours): 0
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 0
Further information
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab:
strongly recommended
Type of Assessment
The examination will be carried out with the presentation of a design work, prepared by every student, concerning analysis and design hypothesis for conserving the vegetal features of an historical garden. Questions about contents and topics explained during the course are possible.
Course program
Cultural tools:
1. Introduction: historical depth and temporal dimension in gardens, open spaces, landscapes
2. Gardens as historical document and complex system of open spaces and ecological networks
3. Cultural topics of garden art history
4. The evolution of historic garden restoration’s culture in Italy and Europe
5. Towards a shared discipline: from the International Charters of Florence (1981) to European Landscape Convention (2000) and the Italian Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape (2004/2008)
6. Contemporary projects for inventive conservation of historic gardens and open spaces in Italy and Europe.
Design tools:
1. Bibliographic and archive’s investigation about the different historical layers of the garden
2. Landscape framework of the site
3. Historic garden’s surveys, aimed to reading and diagnostic interpretation of conservation state
4. Thematic and functional analysis on systems composing the garden (vegetation framework, water systems, architectures, paths and connections)
5. Designing master plan and project documents for restoration and conservation of historic gardens
6. Communication, “translation” and “narrative” projects for historic gardens
7. “After the project”: maintenance and management plans for conservation of historic gardens (vegetation, architectural elements).