Courses
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Paper or Plastic: Reinventing Shelf-life in the Supermarket Landscape
The supermarket shelf is a highly volatile, hyper-competitive space. On this shelf products struggle to maximize every possible advantage, all in a ruthless effort to…
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
Chad Oppenheim, Eric de Broche des Combes
The course is aimed at investigating new ways to interpret, conceive and describe landscape. While traditional methods of representation will prevail for some time,…
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Projection-Animation
This course will focus on the ways in which designers and artists can help to enliven both existing and future monuments and facades for…
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Critical Conservation: Understanding the Urban Cultural Ecology of Progressive Places
21st Critical Conservation seeks to disentangle the complex web of 19th c. elite values of historic preservation and 20th c. mass-culture strategies that together…
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Emergence in Landscape Architecture – Canceled
OBJECTIVE To contribute to the ongoing development of emergence theory in landscape architectural discourse. LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end…
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How to do Things with Words
This seminar will seek to explore the (actual and potential) roles and uses of writing within design and the design field. It will address…
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Critical Conservation as Social Activism: History, Theory, and Methods
Historic preservation strategies have been used by communities to achieve various social ends, ranging from staving off gentrification and restricting neighborhood development to developing…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Islands: The Career of a Metaphor
Either consciously deployed or a product of difference, the island was a recurring phenomenon in 20th-century urban environments. Based on its own organizational logic, it…
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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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Imagine Michelangelo
The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…
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Historical Ground
The seminar explores the role of historical information and knowledge in making places today, but also how contemporary designers may “invent” history that nonetheless…
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Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)
This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Cities and Environmental Change
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-termer challenges posed by environmental change? We…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven “actors”—consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure providers,…
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Phyto-Technologies Practicum: Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 6335 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration with…
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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…
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Expanded Mechanisms / Empirical Materialisms
Machines and material are vitally connected and reciprocally constrained. Each responds dynamically to the other through a range of geometric, chemical, and physical events…
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Research Seminar on Urban Ecology
This 4-credit course is limited to 15 students who have completed the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies sequence in the Landscape Architecture program (or its…
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Design By Committee. Digital Interfaces for Collaborative and Participatory Design
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web based interfaces for collaborative and participatory design scenarios.
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Frameworks of Contemporary Practice
The purpose of this course is to: 1. Examine architecture through the lenses of the Discipline, Profession and Practice — the issues of…
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Resource Extraction Urbanism II: Recasting the South American Hinterland
As current development pressures continue to transform the hinterlands at an unprecedented rate, it has become more crucial than ever for the design disciplines…
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1601: Macau: Cross-border Cities. It will provide the theoretical and historical…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Design Learning Workshop
As part of a long-term initiative at the Graduate School of Design to develop new spaces for design learning, this course will explore nascent…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Sonja Dümpelmann
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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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This required seminar introduces incoming MLA II post-professional candidates to contemporary debates in the field of landscape architecture. The seminar also serves as a venue…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MDesS Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology [ULE] concentration to the range of urban questions presently pursued by GSD faculty advising…
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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…