Courses
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Michael Blier, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Holly Clarke
Prerequisites: Enrollment in MLA I program or permission of the program director.The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Scheri Fultineer, Carl Steinitz, Niall Kirkwood, Nicholas Pouder, Christian Werthmann
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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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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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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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
Alan Berger, Margaret Crawford
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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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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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
Christian Werthmann, Michael Blier
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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The Visual Landscape: Analysis and Management
The seminar will occur on two Wednesdays each month during the spring semester.Seminar reading and discussion, and demonstrations and experiments will include: The visual landscape:…
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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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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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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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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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Virtual Gardens
Prerequisites: GSD 2108, GSD2109, GSD2306 or permission of instructor. Proficiency with computing and willingness to adventure.Course Description: Examines the special problems and opportunities involved in…
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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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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the repair and reconstruction of derelict urban and suburban land within the realities of current conditions, regulations,…
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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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Preparation of Thesis for Master in Landscape Architecture
John Beardsley, Holly Clarke, Alan Berger
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and approval by the landscape architecture faculty.In this preparatory seminar for students intending to enroll in GSD 9303 the following term, direction…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Michelle Addington, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Jeffrey Huang, Margaret Crawford
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…