European Urban Design TheoriesSemester Course

European Urban Design Theories
Major Discipline(s)
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

The course is an introduction to contemporary urban design in Europe and to the main theories and positions from the past five decades. Urban design integrates aspects from planning, landscape architecture, architectural design, sociology, geography, cultural studies, and urban history. A principal goal of the course is to tie a connection between theory and practice to better understand the many dilemmas that occur in urban development and that urban design needs to address. You visit urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture in Copenhagen and use the transformation Copenhagen has gone through in recent decades to better understand what drives urban design.

Related Discipline(s)

This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):
Design, Urban Studies

Faculty

Heitor Garcia Lantarón

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

Ph.D. (Department of Architectural Design, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 2016). Architect. Doctoral Thesis: Danish Examples of Housing for the Elderly. Academic and professional interests focused on housing challenges related to the ageing process and addressing challenges to enhance the domestic space quality for any age and (dis)ability. Previously employed at Nieto Sobejano Archietcts, 2008-2009, and Herzog & de Meuron, 2006-2008. With DIS since 2017.