The European Landscape Convention – Challenges and Horizons for the Educational Process

This article aims to explore the new perspectives and opportunities that the European Landscape Convention opens up in the educational context, particularly in the framework of a strategy for designing the concept and theoretical foundation for students’ architectural projects. Offering a broad, though not exhaustive, overview of the essential role played by ELC in the educational process, particularly in promoting a renewed understanding of the landscape, the paper addresses some theoretical aspects as well as new insights impacting the architectural education process. Assimilating this new landscape paradigm promoted by ELC enables students to clarify their preferences for a specific site for their diploma project, specific architectural solutions, and specific attitudes toward the project’s intervention on the site, generating specific solutions within the architectural conceptual process. Therefore, the purpose of the Case Study section is to reflect how appropriating, integrating and assuming the perspectives opened up by ELC as a starting point of the study improve the students’ architectural design approach.