LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Landscape design is taught at Iraqi architectural colleges at the 4th stage in onesemester. Due to the increasing importance of this material and its environmental, ecological,aesthetic and designing impacts on design and in order to reinforce its role in the architecturallearning in the undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the architectural departments, thestudy problem focus on the deficiency of attention paid for this material and the qualificationof the graduated architect. Search has been made in both Arabic and foreign universities andinstitutes to examine the teaching of this material as related to curriculum, teaching hours andunits in undergraduate studies to utilize such experiences.The study aims at concluding certain recommendations on qualifying this material asrelated to curriculum, hours and units that reinforce the undergraduate role in the field withinlandscape design.