Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Seth Denizen, Craig Douglas, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Nadir Abdessemed, Silvia Benedito
Second semester core studio explores research and methods in the design of complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple and uncoordinated interventions that present issues…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Jill Desimini, Rosalea Monacella, Danielle Choi, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Belinda Tato, Alex Wall
Near-Future City Urban Assemblages Encoded for Change This is the fourth and final semester for the core Landscape Architecture sequence. It questions ways in which…
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Rewilding Seoul
This studio aims to elaborate a series of rewilding strategies for multiple sites in Seoul to reveal their immanent nature and mitigate the impact of…
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THAILAND REMADE: Lower Chao Phraya Flood Plain, Pathum Thani, and the Technological Imagination
Niall Kirkwood, Kotchakorn Vora-akhom
THAILAND REMADE explores technology and its relationship to design in landscape architecture. The studio will develop alternative futures for Thailand’s Lower Chao Phraya floodplain using…
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SMO PARK +/Climate Infrastructure, Arid Landscape
Santa Monica Municipal Airport (FAA code SMO) is a 227-acre general aviation airport about six miles from the Pacific Ocean that largely handles private and…
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GET READY HOLYOKE! Climate Preparedness 2050
This design studio focuses on Holyoke, the second-poorest city in Massachusetts and one of the 25 designated Gateway Cities. Sitting along the Connecticut River, Holyoke…
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TAISHAN: Designing the Rural Cosmopolis in China
Elaine Kwong, David Rubin, Kathryn Firth
Cosmopolitanism and its vibrancy are commonly associated with urban life; rural life by contrast is often seen as static, disconnected and monocultural. China’s rapid urbanization…
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Neuralisms Shenzhen: Fictions of Type and Territory
Shenzhen is China’s city of the future, a manufacturing and product development hub unlike any in the world. It is a place where innovation in…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundations of Landscape Representation I, this course investigates further the generative potential of representation as part of a productive feedback loop in…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…
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Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Katarzyna Balug
What do you need to know in order to understand this landscape? This course explores how cultural values are embedded in the design of landscapes.
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities (with FAS)
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Design Practice
Unprecedented issues, such as climate change, challenge the standard hyper-specialized approach to problem-solving. Within this context, there is a need for professions…
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Thinking Through Soil
Urbanization is always a process of soil formation. Every material process that shapes the construction of the urban environment passes through the…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation, and Use
Designed gardens and landscapes are cultural artifacts that encompass three main expectations: pragmatic needs, cultural significance, and aesthetic order. Although some landscape narratives often ignore…
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Mountains and the Rise of Landscape
To ask when we started looking at mountains is by no means the same as asking when we started to see them.
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Environmental Histories, Archived Landscapes
This course examines environmental histories of the 20th century—the alignments and contradictions of environmentalism and new technical environments—through the engineered landscapes of…
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Public Space as a Catalyst for Change in Informal Settlements: The Case of Argentina
How may we design transformative systems, tools, and frameworks to breach the gap between the formal and informal city through public space?…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Karen Janosky, Kirt Rieder
Topography is one of the primary and most powerful elements of landscape architecture, forming a foundation for plant growth, habitat, the flow of water and…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
The fourth and final course in the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies core sequence, GSD 6242 continues to develop an understanding of, and promote…
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Urban and Town Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes…
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Cartographic Audition
Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest for sound within numerous sites academic and cultural production. With new environmental…
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CLIMATE CRISIS – BEYOND ADAPTATION & RESILIENCY: A Designer’s Geoengineering Toolkit for Mitigation
Currently, education of how landscape architects, architects and planners can address climate crisis (CC) impacts are focused on resilience (the capacity to…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
Summary This class explores how to design and make physical landscapes that are both rationally constructed and expressively convincing. This…
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Ecosystem restoration
Given the current speed of habitat and species loss caused by human development, the restoration of degraded ecosystem is one of the…
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Landscape Practices
Given the current speed of habitat and species loss caused by human development, the restoration of degraded ecosystem is one of the…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Stephen Ervin, Dingliang Yang, Ann Forsyth, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Emily Wettstein, Elizabeth Whittaker, Rahul Mehrotra, Mark Lee, Charles Waldheim, Oana Stanescu, Jennifer Molinsky, Carole Voulgaris, Sai Balakrishnan, K. Michael Hays, Andrew Holder, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Ivan Panushev, Joan Busquets, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Ewa Harabasz, Sean Canty, Lily Song, Daniel D’Oca, Jock Herron, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Yusuke Obuchi, Alex Wall, Richard Peiser, Danielle Choi, Iman Fayyad, Jesse M. Keenan, Max Kuo
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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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Sai Balakrishnan, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Allen Sayegh, George Thomas, Alex Wall, Dilip da Cunha, Edward Eigen, Ann Forsyth, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Michael Hooper, Alex Krieger, Ali Malkawi, John May, Rahul Mehrotra, Toshiko Mori, Erika Naginski, John Peterson, Robert Pietrusko, Peter Rowe, Holly Samuelson, Malkit Shoshan, Susan Snyder, Abby Spinak, Krzysztof Wodiczko
(Previously "Open Projects”) Prerequisites: Filing of signed "Declaration of Advisor" form with MDes office, and approval signature of the program director. A student who selects…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9341, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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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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Discourse and Research Methods
Research conducted in the Doctor of Design Program (DDes) at the GSD spans a broad range of topics and areas of investigation that not only…
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Discourse and Methods II
This seminar serves as an introduction to prevalent critical approaches and methodologies in the history and theory of the design disciplines. The focus will be…