Courses
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
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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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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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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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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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course introduces students to a number of significant topoi or loci (see week one) in the histories of landscape architecture. In general terms, it…
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Maps and Mapping (at FAS)
Charles Waldheim, Matthew Wilson
Maps are often the most effective way to stimulate spatial reasoning and provoke new understandings about our world\’s phenomena. This course introduces contemporary map…
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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
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Mondays: 10:00 AM to 11:30 PM. Lectures Wednesdays: 2:30-5:30…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines the profession of landscape architecture by looking at the historical and contemporary frameworks for practice, the documentation and delivery of projects, and…
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Library Test Kitchen III: Library Machines
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
The Library, up there with the US Postal Service, represents one of the most exciting institutional design opportunities out there. Library Test Kitchen is…