Courses
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Landscape Architecture Design
The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series…
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Planning and Design of Landscapes
Scheri Fultineer, Joseph Brown, Elizabeth Mossop, Robert France, Nicholas Pouder
The fourth-term studio focuses on landscape planning for community development, emphasizing resource management, physical and social structure of community services, spatial organization, and resultant landscape…
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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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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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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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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements.Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for plan,…
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Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Design
This course has a dual objective: it provides the conceptual framework for employing computing in the design process and it delivers the practical skills for…
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Intermediate Drawing
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Shifting Landscapes
The significance of landscapes is not that they change with seasons, cycles or any other measure of time, but that they change outside of our…
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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
Carl Steinitz, Michael Flaxman
Theories, methods, concepts and techniques are introduced for use in environmental planning and design. Included are computer-oriented procedures and graphic methods of organizing, analyzing, synthesizing,…
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Contemporary Landscape Design in Asia
This course is intended as an exploration of the broad phenomenon of contemporary landscape design in Asia, concentrating especially on China, Japan, and India. Given…
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Environmental Contentions
What do designers of the built environment see as environment? This is a particularly difficult question at the turn of a century that has witnessed…
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European Modernism
This seminar studies the development of modernism in Europe between 1900 and 1945, with a particular emphasis on England, Sweden and France. It examines the…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MLA I AP program. This course provides an introduction to critical discourse in contemporary design practice concerning landscape systems and the…
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MLA II Proseminar
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MLA II program. This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to…
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History of Landscape Architecture: Antiquity to 1800
This course surveys the history of gardens and landscape design primarily in the Western world, from antiquity to Humphry Repton and the beginning of the…
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Site Ecology and Plant Communities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Robert France
This course focuses on the principles of ecosystem, community, and population ecology as applied to the analysis of vegetation, wildlife, soil, water, and microclimate of…
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
This course introduces processes and methods of site construction, land measurement, property description, surveying, grading and earthwork. Lectures, readings, and assignments undertake the representation, manipulation,…
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Plants, Vegetation and Microclimate
This course emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the natural communities of New England. It also highlights major characteristics of the vegetation, and introduces…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of ecological systems, such as forests, wetlands, fields, corridors, and villages. Focus is on…
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Site Planning
This course provides an introduction to the theories, principles, and methods of site planning and land design practices. Through case studies based upon landscape archetypes,…
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Visualizing Open Space (cancelled)
Prerequisites: GSD 2107, GSD2306, or permission of instructor. Proficiency with computing and willingness to adventure.This course examines the special problems and opportunities involved in creating…
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Watershed and Watershed Management Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natura) and activities (anthropogenic) affect aquatic systems.Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine patterns…
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Land Reclamation and Technologies
This seminar provides an in-depth study of the technologies and tools of environmental cleanup and reclamation used to remediate and regenerate polluted and impaired sites.
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Sustainable Landscape
This seminar-format course will examine the issues that influence the process of landscape growth and development over time, focusing especially on the dynamic nature of…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.Prerequisites: Preparatory work (thesis proposal) completed in or…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
The student conducts a program of individual study under faculty guidance, including auditing of lectures, reading, and exercises as needed to develop skills in methods…