Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Kira Clingen, Tomas Folch, Alistair McIntosh, Elaine Stokes
What is public about a public space? STU-1111 is the first in a sequence of four core studios that, together, constitute the foundation of your…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Danielle Choi, Francesca Benedetto, Mark Heller, Adam Anderson, Rosalea Monacella, Alex Wall, 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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AQUA INCOGNITA: Designing for extreme climate resilience in Monterrey, MX
Aqua Incognita continues to engage students in grappling with water-resilient urbanization processes, through the design of nature-based [1] reparative actions in the water-scarce region of…
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Island of Enchantment: Atmospheric Grounds
What we believed to be the reliable and predictable nature of the atmosphere made tangible through the phenomena of weather no longer holds true ……
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Beyond Borders Life Abounds
Borders are everywhere: between countries, between populations, between outside & inside, between disciplines, between genders… In early childhood, we see a being in the making,…
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Harnessing The Future; How the Internet’s Digital Infrastructure Influences the Global Landscape
Thomas Oslund, Catherine Murray
Studio Challenge: Digital infrastructure has become the connective tissue of today’s civilization weaving together culture, community, and humanity from a historical compendium of events…
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Biospheric Urbanism – Changing Climates
The Option Studio ‘Biospheric Urbanism’ explores how cities can be made more resilient in the light of the ongoing changes of climate. Conceived as a…
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Mar·gi·na·lia. Marginality and redemption in New York City, alternative landscapes for Rikers Island
Rikers Islands stands as a critical site to investigate scenarios of climate change mitigation, energy transition, community centered models of land regeneration and, eventually, experimenting…
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Landscape Representation I
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Kira Clingen
The first in a two-semester sequence, Landscape Representation I introduces students to the rich and varied discipline of landscape architecture as inextricably intertwined with the…
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Lost and Alternative Nature: Vertical Mapping of Urban Subterrains for Climate Change Mitigation
This seminar aims to come up with mitigation strategies informed by the planar and vertical mapping of lost geomorphologies (topography, waterbody, subsoil, groundwater, carbon cycle,…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will master techniques in hand…
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Ecological Do-Nothing Landforms
This design seminar will explore the reciprocal relationship between techniques of landforming and ecological analysis through precedent studies, relational digital modeling, computational analysis, and image-making.
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Island Observatory
This design research seminar considers landscape architecture’s disciplinary practices of fieldwork and scenario planning in relation to the technical image—the image created with the intent…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism
Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim
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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The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. It is a messy world of facts, meanings, relations, and actions that calls them…
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Why Not Cultural Systems? Expanding Our Value System Beyond Nature and Ecology
How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory? How do our collective planning, design and stewardship decisions affect how we assign value and manage…
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FORESTS: Histories and Future Narratives
“Forests: Histories and Future Narratives.” From a distance, all forests appear to be remarkably similar: they are ecosystems characterized by the dominance of trees, they…
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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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Plants of Ritual: Creating a Spiritual Connection to the Designed Landscape
The seminar aims to investigate and catalog plants that have a spiritual/emotional value to the public and individuals in the designed landscape. The seminar’s goal…
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CONTESTED Landscapes + COUNTER Narratives
No place holds one, singular story. Every place, every site is complex, layered, and full of history. This seminar will explore how a critical place-based…
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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
Estefania Fernandez Barrancos, Matthew Girard
Ecology and the Design World (Estefania Fernandez Barrancos): Landscape architecture incorporates an additional layer of complexity to design that is less present in other design…
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Climate by Design
The climate crisis is here now and for the foreseeable future. For designers who shape the built environment, there is an urgent need to respond…
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Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
GSD 6333 covers water across the globe in relation to (1) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, (2) aquatic ecology, and (3) human activities,…
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Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign
Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include understanding human impacts on natural systems through engineering and design,…
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Power||Energy: Mapping the Thickened Ground of Labor
The definition of energy is dominated by a western logic of energy as a resource. This understanding was focused on the primary objective of putting…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (HKS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate…
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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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Origins and Contemporary Practices of Asian Landscape Architecture: Korean Perspectives and More
The term “Asian” can be misleading; it conjures images of one identity that can be applied to all 51 countries in Asia. Scholars and practitioners,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Joan Busquets, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Peter Rowe, Andrew Witt, Alex Yuen, Thaïsa Way, Mohsen Mostafavi, Diane Davis, Daniel D’Oca, Karen Janosky, Allen Sayegh, Ewa Harabasz, Holly Samuelson, Jock Herron
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
“The natural sciences are concerned with how things are . . . Design, on the other hand, is concerned with how things ought to be.”…
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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
How do we understand a landscape? This proseminar explores epistemologies that constitute the field of landscape architecture. The proseminar will introduce MLA II students to…
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Proseminar in PUBLICS: Of the Public. In the Public. By the Public
Public, as a noun or adjective, is not confined to a single discipline, practice, narrative or theory. It is instead, a complicated construct that can…
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Proseminar in MEDIUMS: On Making Culture, Technology, and Art
In this proseminar, we will take a critical look at the current and emerging landscape of design technologies and technologically driven design. We will examine…
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Proseminar in NARRATIVES: Word and Image as Narrative Structure
In our Proseminar, we will grapple with a selection of critical discussions on word and image as these have been formulated in aesthetic philosophy, literary…
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Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Interrelated, In-between, Dynamic
Our aim in the proseminar is to explore the inherent inventedness of ecology as a field of inquiry, its distinctly relational nature, and the potential…