Department:

Urban and Landscape Design

Course Leader:

prof.dr.arh. Cerasella Craciun

Learning outcomes:

Project goal is to recreate natural landscape in urban areas with anthropic characteristics. The project intends to develop students capacity to work in multidisciplinary context and to develop abilities for team- work. Other goal of the project is to develop capacity to relate grapfic represantation with theoretical issues and real practice, to understand specificity of a target site and structural relations existing inside zonal system, and also ability to transpose the concept into regulations.

Content:

Approach:
1. Understanding the urban processes like a component of landscape design inside urban areas
2. Lecture methods and landscape analysis, place specificity and place architecture: historical evolution, landscape systems, dinamics, tendencies, landscape typology.
3. To elaborate landscape design proposal integrated with other urban decelopment components- economic activities, urban land, transportation, environment, social component.
4. To ilustrate and detail the proposal. Regulations.

Teaching Method:

Discutions, documentations on similar international approaches, site visit, ilustrated presentations, additional visits to the intervention site, studied in the previous urban management project.
Materials: Presentations, projects, ilustrations

Assessment:

Evaluation of the Final Project and evaluation of the activity during the development of the design process within the corrections guided

Bibliography:

REFERENCES:

EUROPEAN LEGISLATION AND DOCUMENTS:
• *** GUIDE ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE APPLICATION OF THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONVENTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AND TERRITORIAL PLANNING DOCUMENTS, MTCT2004- DOCUMENTATION ON EUROPEAN POLICIES IN THE FIELD OF LANDSCAPE, Application of the regulations of the European Landscape Convention in urban and territorial development strategies
• *** SELECTED RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF ICOMOS, brochure, Warszawa 1980
• *** Proceedings of the Congress: PATRIMOINE ET PAYSAGES CULTURELS: ACTES DU COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL DE SAINT-EMILION, 30 May-1 June 2001, Bordeaux
• *** Proceedings of the Congress: LE PAYSAGE : PATRIMOINE ET ENJEU DE DEVELOPPEMENT – colloque organised on 4 June 1992 by the Commission de la production et des échanges BRIFFAUD, Serge, DAVASSE, Bernard, Analyze interdisciplinaire pour servir de fondement à la gestion durable d'un bien inscrit au patrimoine mondial: landscape and landscape policy in the cross-border massif of Gavarnie-Mont-Perdu / under the direction of Serge Briffaud and Bernard Davasse Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture et de landscape de Bordeaux, 2007
• *** LEGISLATION with the respective updates: Law no. 451/8 July 2002 for the ratification of the European Landscape Convention; Order no. 13/2003, Order 195/2005, Law no. 13/1994, Decree no. 187/1990, Law no. 58/1994, Hot.Gov. no. 230/2003, Order 850/2003, Law no. 265/2006, Law no. 5/1991, Law no.13/1998, Law 24/2007
• *** Congress Proceedings: AWARENESS OF THE LANDSCAPE, FROM PERCEPTION TO PROTECTION, Strasbourg: Conseil de l'Europe
•COUDRAY, Patricia, VOURC'H, Anne, BOUILLON, Didier, LA CHARTE PAYSAGERE : OUTIL D'AMENAGEMENT DE L'ESPACE INTERCOMMUNAL, Documentation française, Paris, 1995
GUIDE DE LA PROTECTION DES ESPACES NATURELS ET URBAINS, Documentation française, France, Ministère de la culture
• GUIDE TO THE EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN RURAL HERITAGE CEMAT, MTCT, 2004- European Conference of Ministers Responsible for Spatial Planning (CEMAT), GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR DEVELOPMENT
• Proceedings of the Congress: AWARENESS OF THE LANDSCAPE, FROM PERCEPTION TO PROTECTION, Strasbourg: Conseil de l'Europe

BOOKS, ARTICLES:
•*** Planning Rural Landscapes Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Nexus, Edited By Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães, Routledge, 2026
•*** Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes , Edited By Rita Hermans, Jan Kolen, Hans Renes, Routledge, 2026
•*** Heritage and Tourism: Places, Imageries and the Digital Age , Edited By Linde Egberts, Maria Alvarez, Routledge, 2025
•*** Archaeological Perspectives on Contested and Political Landscapes, Edited By Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Routledge, 2025
•*** Landscape as Heritage International Critical Perspectives, Edited By Giacomo Pettenati, Routledge, 2023
•*** Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice, Edited By Steve Brown, Cari Goetcheus Routledge, 2023
•*** The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape Shaping Your Landscape, Edited By Robert Layton, Peter Ucko, Routledge,1999
•*** Heritage Studies Methods and Approaches, Edited By Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, John Carman, Routledge, 2009
•*** Managing Cultural Landscapes, Edited By Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon, Routledge, 2012
•*** Landscapes, Identities and Development, Edited By Zoran Roca, Paul Claval, John Agnew, Routledge, 2011
• Akturk, Gul, Impacts of Climate Change on Vernacular Landscapes and Cultural Heritage, Routledge, 2026
• Choay, Francoise, L’Invention du patrimoine Urbain. Quel Patrimoine aujourd’hui ?, Revista Cientifica ICOMOS, : CNS/ICOMOS, 1993, pp 266-277
• Craciun, Cerasella, Article "Values ​​of the natural heritage that disappeared from the central area of ​​the Municipality of Bucharest" (pp. 9-19), in Argument 2/2010. Studies and scientific research in architecture and urbanism, "Ion Mincu" University Publishing House, Bucharest, February 2011.
• Craciun, Cerasella, "Collection of legislative documents in the field of natural, anthropogenic and cultural landscape, in territorial planning and urbanism", "Ion Mincu" University Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010;
• Craciun, Cerasella, Article: "Landscape and the Ecological Crisis of the City", in Annals of Architecture, Bucharest, ISSN 1842-7723 (CNCSIS Code: 257), no. 1/2009.
• Craciun, Cerasella, Article: "The Sustainable City and the Landscape", in Annals of Architecture, Bucharest, 2009, ISSN 1842-7723 (CNCSIS Code: 257), no.1/2009.
• Craciun, Cerasella, Article "The Lost Gardens Project. Research on the Missing Gardens in the Municipality of Bucharest" (page 82-84), in the Section "Bucharest Metropolis of the 21st Century", Column "Case Study. Landscape - Past and Present", in the journal Forumul Academic Roman (FAR XXI), no.2/February, 2009.
•Fabos, Julius, Planning The Total Landscape A Guide To Intelligent Land Use, Routledge, 1979
•Ionescu, Grigore, Carta internațională de la Veneția privind conservarea și restaurarea monumentelor istorice, BCMI Nr.3-4/1990, Bucuresti 1991
•Kalman, Harold, Létourneau, Marcus R., Heritage Planning Principles and Process, Routledge, 2020
•Kluiving, Sjoerd, Guttmann-Bond, Erika, Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach , Routledge, 2012
•Makhzoumi, Jala, Pungetti, Gloria, Ecological Landscape Design and Planning, Routledge, 1999

FILMS, WEB SITES:
http://www.patrimoniuromanesc.ro/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/culturallandscape/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/convention
http://whc.unesco.org/en/series/26/
http://www.icomos.org/landscapes/index2engl.htm
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/heritage/landscape/default_en.asp
http://www.pcl-eu.de/project/convention/index.php
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/research/landscapes-and-areas/
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/research/landscapes-and-areas/characterisation/historic-landscape-character/
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/research_resources/charters.html
http://www.cdep.ro/pls/legis/legis_pck.htp_act_text?idt=37056
http://www.avoe.org/urbanlovers.html
http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/index.html

Additional references will be provided during the course, during lectures, as well as for the project, during the design workshop, directly and through specific groups and platforms, including in connection with the project themes and their location or the documentation related to the study area chosen for study in the respective academic year.

Notes:

The project is mandatory and is integrated into the course PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF NATURAL HERITAGE. The discipline cannot be promoted without having a passing grade in both values ​​(course and integrated project).