Courses
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Los Angeles River Studio
The Los Angeles River Studio will study up to four miles of the river\’s corridor in downtown Los Angeles. The east/west boundaries will be determined…
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Gardens and Parks
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
The studio will be cotaught by Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles EliotProfessor of Landscape Architecture, and Matthew Urbanski, who is a Lecturerin Landscape Architecture. The…
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The Future Urban Landscape of Cesena, Italy
The lottery for this option studio has already taken place due to the required summer research and travel.A sponsored, option-level studio will be conducted during…
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Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, Mexico
Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, MexicoPlease note that the lottery for this option studio has already occurred. The studio focus on the municipality of Tepotzotlan, which…
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Zip, Padova, and the Parco del Roncaiette
ZIP (la Zona Industriale di Padova) is the largest \”industrial park\” in Italy, employing around 25,000 persons. The ZIP consortium owns a large adjacent area,…
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Protecting and Developing the Landscapes of Don Quixote, Province of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Carl Steinitz, Christian Werthmann
Students for this studio have already been selected in an early lottery; this studio will not be part of the studio lottery on September 13th.Studio…
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Contested Waters: The Tajo River in Spain
Christian Werthmann, Carl Steinitz
SituationIt is now commonly heard, that \”water is the oil of the 21st century.\” Spain seems to exemplify this issue. For decades fierce debates have…
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MUMBAI METROPOLITAN: Adapting the Airport Lands, Mumbai, India
AbstractThe sponsored studio MUMBAI METROPOLITAN will reconsider the Greater Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and India\’s densest and most grossly inhospitable urban fabric as part of a…
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The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future
Martha Schwartz, Spiro Pollalis
Tuesdays and WednesdaysEdessa, a small historic town in northern Greece, faces an uncertain future. Its potential to regenerate diminishes as they lose their young population…
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Rivercity Gothenburg
Gothenburg is a water city, but it no longer has any connection to the water. Once a bustling port and industrial corridor, Gothenburg\’s Gota Alv…
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The Catalytic Landscape: Body, Culture, and the Visual Environment
Martha Schwartz, Andrea Hansen, Andrew Zientek
CATALYST, or its original Greek word CATALYSIS contains an ambiguity essential to the position of this studio. In chemistry, the word catalyst alludes to an…
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A New [Landscape] Infrastructure for Los Angeles
Topics to be covered ‘Essayons!’ meaning ‘Let us try,’ (1) was the motto first used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in…
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Liminal Space: Transforming the Taylor Yard G2 Parcel
While the Los Angeles River may drift and turn before dispensing its waters into the Pacific Ocean, the sound of its rushing flows are now…
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Lagoa das Furnas: A Dynamic Approach to a Landscape Project
Joao Nunes, Joao Gomes da Silva
The Vulcan Lagoon (Açores, Portugal)- a dynamic approach to landscape project applied to the São Miguel Island, singling out the basins of the Furnas Lagoon…
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Alternative Futures for the West Lake, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Last fall, we taught a studio which focused on the area of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The protection and use of this world-famous…
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Alternative Futures for Pueckler – Muskau Land
In the early nineteenth century, Prince Hermann von Pueckler-Muskau(1785-1871) laid out a huge landscape park on his estates at Muskau, nowdivided by the German-Polish border.
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11 Cities and the Milan Convention Center Site
The profession of landscape architecture has had a relatively small presence in Italy. The disciplines of architecture and urban design have been well explored and…
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Parks and Cities: Climate, Experience, and Frugality as Design Engines
The site of the studio is one of the last building sites in New York City\’s Battery Park City, a small city block between the…
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Green and Gold: Studies in Landscape and Urban Regeneration in Derry, Northern Ireland
SPONSORS Derry City Council ILEX Regeneration Company North West Office, Department for Social Development McGinnis Group, Property DevelopersPEDAGOGICAL GOALSThe quality of a city\’s open spaces…
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Maximum Mumbai, Minimum Mumbai: Repositioning the Cotton Textile Mill Lands, Girangaon, Central Mumbai, India
\”There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay (Mumbai) than on the continent of Australia. URBS PRIMA IN INDUS reads the…
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Mumbai Margins: Rethinking the Island City
Pavements, slums, chawls, colonies, estates as landscapes of renewal\”…many of Bombay\’s (Mumbai) problems are the result not of poverty as such but of the reverse-…
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Mat Ecologies
studio site: Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts\”…mats are…everywhere. We call them fields, grounds, carpets, matrices.\” The mat answers to the recurring calls for efficiency…
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Designing the Ecology of Democracy: Speculations on National Identity, Free Speech, the American Elm, and the Nation’s Front Yard
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Gareth Doherty
GSD 1402, Hilderbrand, Fall 2009DESIGNING THE ECOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY: SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL IDENTITY, FREE SPEECH, THE AMERICAN ELM, AND THE NATION???S FRONT YARD\”The Mall, far…
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Roman Water_Gate: A New Entrance for the Metropolitan Area of Rome
The city of Rome has planned the development of a new commercial port in the vicinity of Fiumicino, close to the International airport Leonardo da…
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Water Front New Haven
Henri Bava, Olivier Philippe, Michel Hossler
Drawing the urban extension of the city center of New Haven towards the industrial port, crossing rail tracks and the motorway to reconnect city and…
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A Parallel Walden: A Landscape of Civil Disobedience
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“… Air, water, wood: all are enhanced to produce hyperecology, a parallel Walden, a new rainforest. Landscape has become Junkspace, foliage as spoilage: trees are…
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Parallel Motion: Walden Pond, Concord / Central Park, New York
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“New York is my Walden. I mean, you don\’t have to be in the middle of a forest, a countryside to be in nature”. Jonas…
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The Endless Landscape – Observations on the River Hudson
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly’ Thomas Cole, \”Essay on…
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The Naked Eye Medusae & other stories
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘Seen floating in the water, (Cyana artica) exhibits a large circular disk, of a substance not unlike jelly, thick in the centre, and suddenly thinning…
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Milan’s South Park
The purpose of this studio is to work with each student to explore his or her own aesthetic in the conceptualization and design of Milan\’s…
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Lost and Found: New York City’s Small Urban Spaces
The studio will study some of the many small urban spaces that can be found scattered throughout Manhattan, Boston, and other inner city areas throughout…
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Studio: Space, Illusion, Ornament
Studio: Space, Illusion, OrnamentGiven by: Adriaan GeuzeAssistant: Max Rohm Open to:Students landscape architecture, urban design and architectureThe schedule for this course is variable. Please select…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River DeltaThe Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of…
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Non-formal Buenos Aires: Public Space Strategies for Emergency Settlements
Instructors: John Beardsley, Senior Lecturer, Harvard GSDMax Rohm, Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires.Studio Consultant:Flavio Janches, Adjunct Professor, University of Buenos AiresSupported by a grant…
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Questioning The Answers: Civic Space and Urban Regeneration
New civic landscapes are vital components of the social, cultural and economic regeneration of cities. These urban spaces are intended to be memorable outdoor social…
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Half a Million Trees: Prototyping Sites and Systems for Sustainable Cities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Kristin Frederickson
IntroductionThis studio addresses design and planning practices of sustainable urban forestry. The decline of our urban forest cover can be addressed as a series of…
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Redesigning Infrastructure – Baldwin Hills Park/Oil FieldA new life for a 1400-acre urban oil field in the Los Angeles basin
The precipitous upward curve of oil prices signals the end of an era– the petroleum epoch. Ironically, this price fluctuation causes long dormant oil wells…
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Boston Botany Bay: The Naked Garden as Spectacle of Plant Psycho-Geography
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”Gardeners are not only botanists, but also painters and philosophers\”William Chambers: A dissertation on oriental gardening (London, 1772)\”What seems to me the highest and the…
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Boston Botony Bay
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
The Boston Botany Bay studio will re-define the concept of the botanical garden for the 21st century. The archipelago of islands in the Boston Harbor…
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Central Park Revisited
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”I\’m a city boy. In the big cities they\’ve set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside,…
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London: From the Olympics to the Thames
Vogt Studio London will take as its site a strip of land, approximately .8 by 2.4 kilometers, located in the Lower Lea Valley. The Lea…
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After La Villette
Why after? After, because the site is located in Paris, right behind the Park de la Villette. After, because we can no longer design…
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LIFE-STYLED – CHINA-TOWN
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
Adopting the 1-9-6-6 model (one central city, nine new cities, 60 new towns and 600 central villages), Shanghai’s 1999 ”One City, Nine Towns Development Plan…
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Open Space – East New York – Brooklyn
This studio focuses on the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, which is historically one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. East New…
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Designing Parks
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully. Course motives:The studio aims to develop the student\’s ability to design urban parks…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto [email protected] Teaching Associate: Neil Cook [email protected]: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Context Informs Form
Context Informs Form is a site based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture. Students will be redesigning…
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Modernizing MIT: An innovative approach to site design and detail
Modernizing MIT is a site-based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture located throughout the campus of MIT.
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Energy Landscapes 3.0
Philipp Oswalt, Theodor Deutinger
The civilization of mankind can be described on the basis of the development of energy systems. With the shift from hunters and gatherers to settlers,…
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