Courses
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the understanding…
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Canceled: Urbanism, Quantified: Modalities of mapping and modeling in contemporary design practice
Contemporary design practice has a habit of qualifying the word “urbanism” with any number of modifiers: Ecological Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism. Relational Urbanism. Tactical Urbanism. These…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Designers participate in this reorganization of materials around the…
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Poetics of Planting Design
Poetics of Planting Design is a workshop-based seminar built around a series of investigations into the spatial implications of plants in Landscape Architecture. The course…
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Contemporary Practices in Urbanism
Mark Johnson, Christopher Glaisek
This course will provide an in-depth study of the range of practice issues, methods and strategies for achieving built works in the urban context, including…
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Vegetal City: Projecting Urban Canopy
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Sonja Dümpelmann
In this seminar/workshop we will explore an under-studied but crucially important urban realm—the designed, adapted vegetative canopy—through descriptive, analytical, and projective methods. We will build…
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Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
This seminar offers an overview of various types and practices of research methodology in contemporary landscape architecture. Central to the ambitions of the course is…
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…