Open space design in historically sensitive environment

History and results of a seminar

Abstract

At the Landscape Architecture Faculty of the Corvinus University of Budapest there was an optional seminar for four years, until recently, with the title Design in historical environment,1 held by the two authors of this paper who teach at two different departments. The course was preceded by years of planning. This planning process was slow and periodical. We were motivated mostly by the high appreciation of each other’s expertise and the need to combine our knowledge for some common purpose in a manner that, besides learning from each other, our students can also take advantage of this joint endeavour. Later, the good atmosphere during the courses proved that we could achieve our goal. Our policy goal was to demonstrate that teachers in the training scattered between various training directions are capable of cooperation and develop a new quality of cooperation.