Courses
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Digital Media for Designers: Urban Environments
The course is aimed at fostering conceptual as well as technical approaches towards the integration of digital design within the process of…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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Field Methods and Living Collections
Confronting the reality of environmental degradation requires more than remote sensing, statistical analysis or institutional restructuring. As images of the changing planet…
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Abstraction in Design with Plants
This course explores the expressive potential of plants as a central medium of landscape design, recognizing the principal role of plants in…
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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…
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Transformation of Nature and the Nature of Transformation
The topic of this seminar is how do landscape architects ‘transform” the materials they invoke. We all use the lazy term ‘nature’, but its treatments…
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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…
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Scale in Landscape Architecture
This seminar studies concepts of scale in landscape architecture and critically assesses how they are operative in the planning, design and making…
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Mapping II: Geosimulation
This advanced lecture course is a continuation of GSD6322 Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation. In Mapping II, students will learn the theories…
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Models, Prototypes and Projections
From the discipline’s aesthetic ambitions to its wider scientific background, conceptual models of the environment have formed a thread between practices of…
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Ecology, Infrastructure, Power
Extraction redefines our understanding of urbanism in the 21st century. If everything we build comes from the ground, then extraction is the process and practice…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
This weekly seminar is required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent is to define the parameters of the design thesis…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar introduces MLA II and MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) students to a range of disciplinary theories and methods. As design becomes ever more…
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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…