Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Jungyoon Kim, Francesca Benedetto, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Emily Wettstein, Alistair McIntosh
GSD 1111 is the first in a sequence of four core studios that, together, constitute the foundation of your time at the GSD. The school’s…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Danielle Choi, Craig Douglas, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosalea Monacella, Paola Sturla, Amy Whitesides
From Off-Shoring to Near Shore: Littoral Landscapes at Work This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people…
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Washington Common – Martin Luther King, Jr., Upended [M1]
While the 1902 Senate Park Commission set forth a vision for the National Mall and the Monumental Core that is known to the world, its…
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Washington Common, An Unmonumental Core for Our Capital City [M2]
The second module of this studio builds on the work and the context of the first, but is an independent effort pursuing ecological and social…
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The Right to the Sewage
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
The Mezquital Valley is the world’s longest running experiment with wastewater agriculture, having received all of Mexico City’s untreated sewage continuously since 1901. What started…
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Seeking Abundance – Designing Engagement and Experience for All
The landscape, is where inequity has always, and continues to express itself. Access to health, wealth, safety and education are embedded in the timeless wheeling and…
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In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment [M1]
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment: landscape interventions between atmosphere, function + experience Both a Swiss and global phenomena, landscapes today are increasingly regarded as a…
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In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment continued [M2]
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment continued: a landscape intervention of function, atmosphere and identity GSD students may view additional information on option studios:…
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The CANARY IN THE MINE, Wildfires and rural communities in the Mediterranean Hinterland
“Fire is a phenomenon that derives from its circumstances… It synthesizes its surroundings.”¹Stephen J. Pyne 1. WhyWildfires rage throughout the rural and peri-urban…
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Landscape Representation I
The rich and varied discipline of landscape architecture is inextricably intertwined with the concept of representation. The first in a three-semester sequence, this course introduces…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism
This course introduces contemporary theories of landscape as a medium of urbanism and product of urbanization. The course surveys sites and subjects, texts and topics…
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle
The structures and forms we perceive on the face of the land are produced by forces that make order, and those that…
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Why Not Cultural Systems? Expanding Our Value System Beyond Nature and Ecology
This seminar will examine the planning, design and stewardship opportunities and constraints frequently encountered when dealing with cultural landscapes. In addition to…
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From Fallow: Equitable Futures for Landscapes of Injustice
Property abandonment is prevalent in places of disinvestment, where vulnerable communities bear the burden of untended land alongside structural racism, unjust policies,…
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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…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course introduces students to a number of significant topoi or loci in the histories of landscape architecture. In general terms, it takes the form of 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…
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Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
This course deals with landscape architecture and architecture in contemporary China. Its purpose is twofold: to articulate new perspectives on the challenges…
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Cotton Kingdom, Now
In 1852, the New York Daily Times commissioned a 31-year-old Frederick Law Olmsted to conduct an immersive research journey through the Southern…
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Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning (at FAS)
What is a just society? What do we owe one another as citizens? What is a good life? These questions, long debated by philosophers, arise…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
This course recognizes plants as one of the most expressive materials of the artform — a living medium that distinguishes the discipline from the other…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
David Moreno Mateos, Christopher Matthews
Required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (David Moreno-Mateos): Landscape architecture incorporates an additional…
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Climate by Design
Jill Desimini, David Moreno Mateos, Martha Schwartz, Emily Wettstein
Through a series of case studies, this course will explore paradigmatic design responses to the climate crisis including adaptation (both for communities to remain and…
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Re-Wilding Harvard
David Moreno Mateos, Joyce Chaplin
This is a year-long class on rewilding, returning a habitat to an earlier form. Students in this course will research historical and cultural definitions of…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (at FAS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course presents the application of landscape ideas as a process of engagement and building amidst financial, legal, cultural, political, and professional contexts. The course…
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Landscape Practices
This seminar examines the nature of contemporary landscape architecture and public realm practices. In this context, practice is considered broadly in terms…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Seth Denizen, Alistair McIntosh, Elizabeth Whittaker, Charles Waldheim, Iman Fayyad, Stephen Gray, Jonathan Grinham, Mark Lee, George L. Legendre, Ann Forsyth, Alex Wall, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Lily Song, Oana Stanescu, Gareth Doherty, Preston Scott Cohen, Nathan King, Alfredo Thiermann, Megan Panzano, Joan Busquets, Malkit Shoshan, Stephen Ervin, Toshiko Mori, Jorge Silvetti, John May, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Andrew Witt, Abby Spinak
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Preparation of MLA Design Thesis
A thesis is a thematic proposition offered for discussion and debate. A thesis is typically developed through a piece of original research specific to an…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
9502 must be taken for either 2 or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
The proseminar introduces MLA II students to a range of theories and methods in landscape architecture and their implications for practice and research. The focus…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
The Master of Design Studies Urbanism-Landscape-Ecology [U-L-E] proseminar introduces students to the range of individual and group research presently pursued by GSD faculty across the…