PEM 4024E - Readings About National Landscape Architecture

Course Objectives

1. To critically analyze the historical development of the landscape architecture
profession in Turkey through key turning points and transformations.
2. To understand the planning ideologies, key actors, and organizational structures
that influenced the institutionalization of the profession, and to establish
connections between historical contexts and contemporary practices.
3. To explore local approaches to landscape architecture in relation to national
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policies and spatial production, in order to grasp the unique dynamics of the
discipline's development.

Course Description

This course examines the historical development of the landscape architecture
profession in Turkey through a multilayered and critical approach. Shaped by a
methodological framework focused on theory–practice relations, historiography, and
issues of memory and archiving, it covers a wide range of periods—from gardening
traditions to modernist planning, ecological transformation, and professional
institutionalization. It discusses transformations from the Late Ottoman to the
Republican era, shaped by both national and international actors. The course also
explores education, publications, competitions, and current practices. Supported by
field trips and student presentations, it aims to equip students with the ability to
critically link historical processes with contemporary professional issues.