Courses
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Holly Clarke, Michael Blier, Kirt Rieder, Michael Van Valkenburgh
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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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Elizabeth Mossop, Scheri Fultineer, Niall Kirkwood, Dorothee Imbert
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed…
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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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11 Cities and the Milan Convention Center Site
Brent Stringfellow, Martha Schwartz
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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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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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…
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Site Systems Representations I
A great deal of information regarding sites and their contexts is available for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS.) Students create and critique GIS maps…
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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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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
This course has three aspects. The first is a series of lectures by Carl Steinitz in which different elements of theories and methods applicable to…
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Landscape Urbanization
This lecture course explores the theories, tactics and workings of Landscape Urbanism. It positions Landscape Urbanism as an intellectual re-alignment of landscape\’s role in urbanization…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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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 malls, highways, suburbs,…
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History of Landscape Architecture: Antiquity to 1800
The 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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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 recreation, and as…
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Site Ecology and Plant Communities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Robert France
DESCRIPTIONThe course focuses on selected issues of landscape architecture and ecology in the context of contemporary and historic projects in the greater Boston area.PEDAGOGIC OBJECTIVES1.
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
The first in the core sequence of Landscape Technology courses, this class introduces the concept of landforms and grading in design. The course will focus…
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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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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Plants, wildlife, microclimate, soil and water are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban landscapes. Topics addressed with ecological emphasis include…
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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natura) and activities (anthropogenic) effect aquatic systems.Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine patterns…
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Land Geometry
Land Geometry ?Earth Surface Systems This course enables students to pursue digital literacy particular to the discipline of landscape architecture through the exploration of topographic…
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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes concerns the conception, production and management of sustainable landscapes from both an ecological and design perspective. The content of this applied lecture…
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Java Programming for Designers
This workshop course is designed to introduce and explore the art of computer graphics programming, using the modern language JAVA. Students will be expected to…
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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 Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Richard Peiser, Spiro Pollalis
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…