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History of Architecture and Garden Art II

Course developer

Prior knowledge

Arhi1017, History of Architecture and Garden Art I

Course abstract

The aim of the subject is to give knowledge about the Gothic and Renaissance development periods and styles of architecture and garden art, including the most notable objects of Europe, Asia, America and Latvia. A special attention is drawn to the medieval shaping of garden principle, structure and composition of the Renaissance gardens. There are studied the most outstanding Renaissance gardens of Italy, France, and Austria. The subject of the study process consists of lectures and independently prepared reports in workshops.

Learning outcomes and their assessment

The outcome of the study course:
• knowledge about the most notable objects of architecture and garden art from the Gothic and Renaissance periods, their development and structure of them,
• skills to recognize styles of architecture and garden, style characteristics and composition of details in them,
• ability to characterize and evaluate objects of the Gothic architecture, Renaissance architecture and Renaissance garden components.

Compulsory reading

1. Gombrihs E.H. Mākslas vēsture. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 1997. 688 lpp.
2. Kluckert E. European Garden Design from classical antiquity to the present day. Tandem Verlag GmbH, 2005. 497 p.
3. Bruģis D. Historisma pilis Latvijā. Rīga: Sorosa fonds - Latvija, 1996. 287 lpp.
4. Avotiņa A. Renesanse. Konsultants kultūras vēsturē. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 1999. 111 lpp.

Further reading

1. Ожегов C.C. История ландшафтной архитектуры. Москва: 2004. 230 с.
2. Vroom M.J. Lexicon of garden and landscape architecture. Basel: Birkhauser, 2006. 351 p.
3. Zarāns A. Pilis un muižas Latvijā. Enciklopēdija par arhitektūras, vēstures un kultūras mantojumu. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2007. 72 lpp.

Periodicals and other sources

1. Latvijas Architektūra: arhitektūras, dizaina un vides apskats. ISSN 1407-4923