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The World Garden and Landscape History

Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College via XuetangX

Overview

The World Garden and Landscape History is a high-quality course for the garden group on our campus. It is mainly offered from September to December. The targeted learners are 230 students from three majors, i.e. garden technology, landscape architecture design, and garden engineering technology. Students have a strong interest in the course learning. The course group has a perfect theoretical system of garden history, but the course is only a basic leading course in the major.

The World Garden and Landscape History is a high-quality course for the garden group on our campus. The course is a theoretical basic course for the garden major, which can offer helpful guidance to students' professional theoretical improvement.


Syllabus

  • Chapter I: Overview of Garden Development in China
    • 1 Ancient Garden Systems under Regional Pattern
    • 2 Changes and Development of Modern Gardens
  • Chapter II: History of Chinese Gardens
    • Historical Context of the Pre-Qin Period
    • Pre-Qin Gardens
    • Historical Context of the Qin and Han Dynasties
    • Gardens in the Qin Dynasty
    • Gardens in the Han Dynasty
    • Historical Context of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
    • Royal Gardens in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
    • Private Gardens in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
    • Historical Context of the Sui and Tang Dynasties
    • Royal Gardens in the Sui and Tang Dynasties
    • Private Gardens in the Sui and Tang Dynasties
    • Historical Context of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties
    • Capital of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties
    • Cases of "Genyue" and "Four Gardens of Dongjing"
    • Private Gardens in Jiangnan and Temple Gardens in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty
    • Historical Context of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
    • Dadu City of the Yuan Dynasty and Beijing City of the Ming Dynasty
    • Gardens in Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty and Royal Gardens in Beijing of the Ming Dynasty
    • Private Garden in the Ming Dynasty and Temple Gardens in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
    • Garden Builders in the Ming Dynasty and Their Theoretical Works
    • Historical Context of the Qing Dynasty
    • Royal Gardens in the Qing Dynasty
    • Private Gardens in the Qing Dynasty
    • Temple Gardens, Garden Builders and Relevant Theories in the Qing Dynasty
    • Case study: Summer Palace and Chengde Mountain Resort
    • Case study: Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden
  • Chapter III: History of European and American Gardens
    • Overview and Types of Ancient Egyptian Gardens
    • Types and Characteristics of Ancient Egyptian Gardens
    • Overview and Types of Ancient Babylonian Gardens
    • Types and Characteristics of Ancient Babylonian Gardens
    • Overview of Ancient Greece Gardens
    • Types of Ancient Greece Gardens (I)
    • Overview of Ancient Roman Gardens
    • Types of Ancient Roman Gardens (I)
    • Overview of European Gardens in the Middle Ages
    • Two Types of European Gardens in the Middle Ages
    • Characteristics of European Gardens in the Middle Ages
    • Overview of European Gardens During the Renaissance
    • Examples of Villa Careggio and Villa Medici a Fiesole
    • Examples of Cortile del Belvedere, Villa Madama, Villa Medici and Villa Lante
    • Overview of Le Nôtre-style Gardens
    • Example of Vaux-le-Vicomte’s Garden
    • Examples of Chateau de Versailles and the Louvre
    • Landscape Gardens in the United Kingdom
    • Modern Gardens in the United States
    • Modern European Gardens-Modern City Parks in France
    • Modern European Gardens-Garden Cities in the United Kingdom
    • Modern European Gardens-Germany Gardens
  • Chapter IV: History of Islamic Gardens
    • Islamic Gardens
  • Chapter V: History of Japanese Gardens
    • Historical Context of Japanese Gardens
    • Classic Courtyards of Japanese Gardens

Taught by

FuZhihu, Jinsujuan, ZhouYiJun, Sunfeng, YangYikun, and WangJuan

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