Contemporary Landscape Architecture – A Critical Examination Through Case Studies

The course offers a critical examination of contemporary landscape architecture, focusing on the core paradigms that have shaped professional discourse in recent decades — including climate justice, multispecies design, participatory planning, tactical urbanism and more.  

Students will analyze key international projects that are considered milestones in the paradigm shift within the field of landscape architecture. Through these case studies, we will explore the tensions between ideology and implementation, between design vision and political reality, and examine how landscape architecture responds to processes of political instability, democratic erosion, and escalating climate and social crises.

The course provides tools for critical analysis of contemporary landscape projects, approaching space as a product of systems of power, ideology, and identity — and as an arena where relationships between humans, society, and the environment are being reshaped in the Anthropocene.