Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton, Silvia Benedito, Zaneta Hong, John Beard
This studio course problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, climatic and vegetative influences, and varied ecological processes that help define…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Pierre Bélanger, Niall Kirkwood, Andrea Hansen, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Luis Callejas, Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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Liminal Space: Transforming the Taylor Yard G2 Parcel
While the Los Angeles River may drift and turn before dispensing its waters into the Pacific Ocean, the sound of its rushing flows are now…
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The Endless Landscape – Observations on the River Hudson
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly’ Thomas Cole, \”Essay on…
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LIFE-STYLED – CHINA-TOWN
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
Adopting the 1-9-6-6 model (one central city, nine new cities, 60 new towns and 600 central villages), Shanghai’s 1999 ”One City, Nine Towns Development Plan…
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Post-suburb – Nashua NH – New Landscape Territories
The old mill buildings of northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire are striking both in their scale and number. An extended sequence of mills stretches…
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Airport Park Zurich – A New Park Typology
Martin Rein-Cano, Gareth Doherty
Encircled by the rapid growth of the adjacent towns, the Zurich airport, a major European gateway, plays a broader role in the expanding urban development…
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Landscape Representation I
Zaneta Hong, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. Rather than a static description of…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
David Mah, Bradley Cantrell, Andrea Hansen
Landscape Representation III seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. Through in-depth study of the…
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Drawing for Designers
The course objective is to advance students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Assigned projects will focus on both the…
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
Chad Oppenheim, Eric de Broche des Combes
The course is aimed at investigating new ways to interpret, conceive and describe landscape. While traditional methods of representation will prevail for some time, they…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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carbonurbanism: projective futures
Carbon C is ubiquitous—it is one of the primary elements supporting life on earth, the fourth most abundant element in the universe, and it…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, September 3rd, will take place in Stubbins, room 112, rather than Piper Auditorium. This course introduces students to a…
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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as…
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Walking
WALKING is a seminar on the history, culture and practice of pedestrian movement, as it concerns design. We shall study some texts of varied kinds,…
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Forest, Grove, Tree: Planting Urban Landscapes
Discussions about the urban forest and tree canopy, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and tree adoption programs are becoming more prevalent by the day. This lecture course…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Rosetta S. Elkin
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan, Erle Ellis
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Notes regarding the schedule: Module 1: The first module…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will…
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Research Seminar on Urban Ecology
This 4-credit course is limited to 15 students who have completed the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies sequence in the Landscape Architecture program (or its equivalent).The…
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Poetics of Landscape Construction
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The GSD 6454 Poetics of Construction seminar promotes advanced understanding and executive skill in the design development of landscape architecture. Speculative in nature, it requires…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines critical aspects of landscape architecture practice through the consideration of historical and contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts…
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Teaching Creativity: Landscape Architecture, Originality, and Autobiography
This seminar will be an exploration into creativity in landscape architecture —what it is, where it comes from, what feeds it, and, crucially, whether and…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Silvia Benedito, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jana Cephas, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Niall Kirkwood
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim, Robert Pietrusko
This weekly seminar is required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent is to define the parameters of the design thesis…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9205, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
A. Hashim Sarkis, Judith Grant Long, Charles Waldheim, Martin Bechthold, Spiro Pollalis, Anita Berrizbeitia, Peter Rowe, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
Charles Waldheim, Sonja Dümpelmann
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MLA II Program to the range of research on urbanism and landscape presently pursued by GSD faculty. Through…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
Charles Waldheim, Sonja Dümpelmann
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MDesS Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology [ULE] concentration to the range of research on urbanism and landscape presently pursued by…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…