Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton, Zaneta Hong, Luis Callejas, Alistair McIntosh, Patrick Cullina
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
Chris Reed, Bradley Cantrell, David Mah, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Fionn Byrne, Javier Arpa Fernandez
This studio focuses on the development of urban form as driven by ecology and environmental dynamics. The studio will introduce students to methods and representational…
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Lagoa das Furnas: A Dynamic Approach to a Landscape Project
Joao Nunes, Joao Gomes da Silva
The Vulcan Lagoon (Açores, Portugal)- a dynamic approach to landscape project applied to the São Miguel Island, singling out the basins of the Furnas Lagoon…
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The Naked Eye Medusae & other stories
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘Seen floating in the water, (Cyana artica) exhibits a large circular disk, of a substance not unlike jelly, thick in the centre, and suddenly thinning…
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Open Space – East New York – Brooklyn
This studio focuses on the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, which is historically one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. East New…
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Metroport on the Rhine: Strasbourg-Kehl
The site of this studio, at the border between France and Germany, is an industrial port between Strasbourg and Kehl, on the river Rhine, a…
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SEXY BEAST: MKAD
HISTORY Throughout history, Moscow pursued a concentric growth strategy. The Kremlin has always been at the core of these concentric rings. New concentric…
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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. The primary objective of the course…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Landscape Representation III examines the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. This examination will be developed through methods…
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Communication for Designers
\”The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will be…
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Drawing for Designers: Technics of Expression, Articulation and Representation
The course objective is to advance students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Drawing projects will focus on forms, processes,…
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Meteorological Reveries: On Atmosphere, Sensation and the Design of Public Space
Meteorological Reveries is a research seminar that investigates the role of atmosphere and sensation in design. With a particular focus on landscape architecture and…
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Relational Urban Modeling
Eduardo Rico Carranza, Enriqueta Llabres Valls
IRREGULAR SCHEDULE: This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 505.
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Interdisciplinary Art Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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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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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: The Art of Walking and its Culture
This is a research seminar on the cultural history of walking, which in different times and places has prompted different modes of walking for…
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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in urbanization? This seminar offers answers by reviewing the history…
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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, Christopher Matthews, Erle Ellis
Fall term, four units, required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Module 1a: An Introduction to Woody Plants…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regen. & Reuse of Brownfield Lands: Research, Remediation & Design Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a…
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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…
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Poetics of Landscape Construction
The GSD 6454 Poetics of Landscape Construction seminar promotes advanced understanding and executive skill in the design development of built works of landscape architecture.
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The Nature and Culture of Plants
This seminar / workshop course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. The class…
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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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Ecology, Infrastructure, Power
Extraction redefines our understanding of urbanism in the 21st century. If everything we build comes from the ground, then extrac-tion is the process and practice…
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South Florida Rise and Sink: the Case of Miami Beach
The emergent topic of urban adaptation to the effects of climate change is among the most pressing areas of research for those engaged in the…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard Peiser, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Allen Sayegh, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Pierre Bélanger, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Martin Bechthold, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
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, Rosetta S. Elkin
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, Peter Rowe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim, Judith Grant Long, Diane Davis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar introduces MLA II and MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) students to a range of disciplinary theories and methods. As design becomes ever more…
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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…