Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton, Silvia Benedito, Zaneta Hong, John Beard
This studio course introduces students to elements of landscape architectural design at the scale of the public garden in an urban context. As the first…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Pierre Bélanger, Niall Kirkwood, Juan Rois, Kelly Doran, Luis Callejas, Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Philippe Coignet
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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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 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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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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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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Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Abstract Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to…
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Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures – its dominant types. Any…
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Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. Rather than a static description of…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Andrea Hansen, Bradley Cantrell
Landscape Representation III seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. Through in-depth study of the…
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Communication for Designers
“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will…
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Landscape as Drawing
The course objective is to advance students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Assigned projects will focus on both the natural…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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Infrastructural Ecologies: A Projective Urbanism
This research seminar will explore cultural ideas of ecology specifically as they relate to life in the contemporary metropolis. We will begin by defining ecology…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term ‘natural’ has in recent…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course addresses a series of topics in contemporary landscape architecture, and invokes a selection of texts in their support; the topics and some of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Christopher Matthews
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Richard T.T. Forman, Peter Del Tredici
The science of ecology is introduced through the lenses of local sites, urban areas, and broad landscapes. Key motifs during the course include basic ecological…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will…
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Digital Media and Material Practice
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
The course will investigate the opportunities presented by digital design and fabrication techniques to engage more directly with design as a material practice. The course…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
This lecture course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. It will cover both the…
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Plugged-in Territories I: Icelandic Energy Landscapes
This advanced research seminar investigates the spatial and ecological implications of the recent shifts in the cultural perception of energy exploitation in Iceland. …
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars of this course will compliment Studio option 1602: Common Frameworks. It will provide the theoretical and historical basis, and…
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Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kelly Doran
This seminar will investigate the material and ecological processes related to the development of the Proyecto Hidroaysén (PHA) in the Chilean Patagonia. The PHA, a…
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Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
Bridging the analog and the digital worlds, the offline and the online, libraries represent one of the most exciting opportunities for design and redesign on…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
A. Hashim Sarkis, Ray Torto, Michael Herzfeld, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Jill Desimini, Jane Hutton, Pierre Bélanger, Iñaki Abalos, Florian Idenburg, Mariana Ibanez, Rahul Mehrotra, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Andreas Georgoulias, Andrea Hansen, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Chris Reed, John Nastasi, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, Eve Blau, Cameron Wu, Erkin Ozay, Christopher Hoxie, Niall Kirkwood, Mark Mulligan, Jorge Silvetti, Anita Berrizbeitia, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Ann Forsyth, Diane Davis, Martin Bechthold
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard T.T. Forman, Allen Sayegh, Sanford Kwinter, Jesse Shapins, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Diane Davis
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent of the course is to define the parameters of the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9205, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Christoph Reinhart
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood in relation to…
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Research Methods in Urbanism
Charles Waldheim, Jason Rebillot
This seminar traces a range of approaches to urban research across the disciplines represented at the GSD. It surveys the complex, and often contradictory ideological…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…