Visit the GSD

MLA Open House Schedule

9:00 – 9:30 AM

  • Check-in – Lobby
    • Admissions staff available throughout day at information table

9:30 – 9:45 AM

  • Welcome from Dean Sarah Whiting

9:45 – 10:45 AM

  • Student Studio + Research Presentations, all programs – Piper Auditorium

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

  • Introduction to Landscape Architecture Program – Room 112 (Stubbins)
    • Anita Berrizbeitia, Chair
    • Gareth Doherty, Program Director

12:00 – 1:00 PM

  • Lunch with Faculty and Current Students – Room 112 (Stubbins)
  • Faculty Introductions
  • Student sign-ups for individual office hours

1:00 – 2:00 PM

  • Discussion with Current Students – Room 112 (Stubbins)

2:00 – 4:00 PM

  • Faculty Office Hours (in-office)
    • Sign-up sheets posted on office doors and in Room 112 (Stubbins)
  • Open Studios/Courses
    • Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio, Choi, 2:00-6:00 – 3rd floor north tray
    • Manifestos for Building Utopia (Option Studio), Castro, Carillo, 2:00-6:00 – 5th floor north tray
    • Social Operative Infrastructure: Sustainable Water Models in Chile, Simonetti, Folch 2:00-6:00 – 2nd floor, north mezz
    • FALLOWSCAPES, Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles, France, Berrizbeitia, Armengaud 2:00-6:00 – 3rd floor north tray
    • Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Waldheim, 2:00-6:00 – War Room, Room 111

2:30 – 5:00 PM

School-wide Resources, Publications, Tours

Sign up for tours at information desk in Lobby (specific times noted)

Pick up your ticket for Beer & Dogs at information table, 2:30-4:30

  • VISIT STUDENTS at their Studio Desks (identified by paper color): 2:30 – 4:30
  • TOURS AND GROUP SESSIONS: Sign up for tours at information desk in Lobby
    • Tour of the Fabrication Lab: 2:30, 3:00, 3:30
      • Tours will start in Room L35 (use the stairway next to the Pit, Gund 110)
    • Loeb Library Tour: 2:30, 3:00
      • Including unique holdings in Special Collections – Library Circulation Desk
    • Additional Degree Options and Concurrent Degrees: 3:30 – Piper Auditorium
    • Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation.
      • Exhibition of Student Work, 2:30-4:30 – The Pit (Gund 110)
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Platform 12 Book Launch: “How About Now?”, Q&A, 4:00-4:30, Loeb Library
      • Director of Communications and Student Editors
    • GSD Publications Book Sale: 3:00 – 4:00 and 4:30-5:00 (Platform 12)
      • Lobby
  • STUDENT GROUPS
    • Design Research Forum, 5:30-6:30 – Gund 510
    • Womxn in Design, Projects and Initiatives, 5:00-6:30 – Gund 516

BEER & DOGS, 6:30 PM

  • Co-sponsored by Latin GSD and Admissions – Chauhaus & Stubbins