Courses
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The Poetics of Place: Critical Writing for Designers
The seminar will explore the relationship between the written word and visual culture. Students will be expected to visit specific sites in the Cambridge/Boston…
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Landscape as Urbanism in Latin America
Schedule updated to 8:30-11:30 on Tuesdays. The discourse and practices of landscape as urbanism as developed over the past two decades can be found…
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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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Super Landscapes, Super Sports
As a form of play, sports are deeply embedded in human nature and culture. Throughout history, sports have had considerable impact on how we…
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Shifting Terrains 1930-1970: Cambridge Modern Architecture and Landscape (Cancelled)
This interdisciplinary research seminar affords students an opportunity to engage in independent research on a theme of their choice; this might be directed toward…
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Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies
The interface between the constructed environment and ecological systems is slowly blurring strategies in urbanism, biological engineering, and technological interface. These strategies encourage the application…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered · How to think about structure as an aspect of landscape architectural design thought. · The structural implications of site…
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Poetics of Planting Design II
Danielle Choi, Kimberly Mercurio
Note regarding new course offering: Course SCI-6456 will be changed to SCI-06460 AFTER THE LIMITED ENROLLMENT LOTTERY IS DONE. Students interested in this course…
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Vegetal City 2: Plane Tree Mania
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…
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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 II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…