MIM 412 - Garden Designs in History and Architecture

Course Objectives

1. Giving information on the roots of garden designs in history
2. Teaching together history of architectural styles and garden designs
3. Taking into consideration the historical gardens in the accumulation of cultural heritage

Course Description

Roots of the garden designs in the western cultures: relationship between garden and architecture in Antique Egypt and Antique Greece
Relationship between garden and architecture in the Roman Empire period
Garden design in the Middle Ages: Europe
Garden design in the Byzantine geography
Relationship between garden and architecture in the Renaissance style I
Relationship between garden and architecture in the Renaissance style II
Relationship between garden and architecture in the Baroque style
Garden designs in far and near eastern cultures: Traditional chinese garden
Traditional Japanese garden
Garden in the Islamic culture
Traditional Iran garden
India-Moghul gardens
Relationship between garden and architecture in Turkish culture
Garden as cultural heritage; the concept of cultural landscape