Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton, Silvia Benedito, Zaneta Hong, Michael Van Valkenburgh, John Beard
This studio course problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, canopy and climatic influences, and varied ecological process that help define…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Pierre Bélanger, Niall Kirkwood, Andrea Hansen, 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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A New [Landscape] Infrastructure for Los Angeles
Topics to be covered ‘Essayons!’ meaning ‘Let us try,’ (1) was the motto first used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in…
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Parallel Motion: Walden Pond, Concord / Central Park, New York
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“New York is my Walden. I mean, you don\’t have to be in the middle of a forest, a countryside to be in nature”. Jonas…
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After La Villette
Why after? After, because the site is located in Paris, right behind the Park de la Villette. After, because we can no longer design…
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California Limnolarium (experiments in projective processes)
A limnolarium, for the purposes of this studio, is a place associated with the study, presentation and experience of inland water ecosystems. It is a…
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Macau: Cross-border Cities
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Territorialism 2
Paola Vigano, Chiara Cavalieri
Key issues: contemporary territories, ecological rationality, life-cycles, embodied energy, inclusion Design operations: conceptualization and scenarios construction Place: Boston Metropolitan Region/Greater Boston I the…
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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
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 (Section 1)
Note: Emily Waugh\’s course 02341: Communication for Designers will be offered in two sections of 20 students. The course is temporarily set up as two…
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Communication for Designers (Section 2)
Emily Waugh\’s course 02341: Communication for Designers will be offered in two sections of 25 students. The course is temporarily set up as two separate…
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Landscape Material Design Practice and Digital Media
The course is aimed at fostering conceptual as well as technical approaches to the integration of digital design and fabrication techniques within the design…
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Drawing for Designers
The course objective is to advance students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Assigned projects will focus on both…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Maryann Thompson, Yanni Loukissas, Ray Torto, Edward Eigen, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, David Mah, Pierre Bélanger, Frank Apeseche, Iñaki Abalos, Holly Samuelson, Erika Naginski, Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Niall Kirkwood, Christine Smith, Mark Mulligan, Alex Krieger, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, Toshiko Mori, Joan Busquets, Allen Sayegh, Bing Wang, Cameron Wu, Andrew Witt, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim, Andreas Georgoulias, Judith Grant Long, Eric Howeler, Diane Davis, Neil Brenner
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
Jana Cephas, Erika Naginski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Yanni Loukissas
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
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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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
Richard Peiser, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Bechthold, Charles Waldheim, 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 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…