Courses
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Anita Berrizbeitia, Danielle Choi, Francesca Benedetto, Jungyoon Kim, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Emily Wettstein, Alistair McIntosh
This studio course problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, climatic and vegetative influences, and varied ecological processes that help define…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosalea Monacella, Paola Sturla
From Episode to Adaptation: Design for a Littoral Landscape This studio explores climate change, adaptation, and risk as fundamental to the design of the built…
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North Adams Central Park: MASS ART for MASS MoCA
North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA. Historically, North Adams was a mill town located in a stunning valley, surrounded by…
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Now Arriving: A Manhattan Transit Landscape
This studio, third in a series in New York City, contemplates the insertion of a landscape where none exists today, where more than 650,000…
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Alternative Futures for Al-`Ula, Saudi Arabia
The region of Al-`Ula, Saudi Arabia — northwest of Medina, inland from the Red Sea, and along the ancient Mediterranean ‘incense route’ — has been…
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RHIZOSPHERE
A new understanding of the relationship between agriculture and ecology will give the students new clues to design in the vernacular landscape of La Camargue…
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Arlington National Cemetery: Engaging Hallowed Ground
Opened in 1864 to accommodate the massive casualties from America’s Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery is revered as the most hallowed shrine to the…
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Multiple Miamis
This interdisciplinary studio will take on questions of how design can address issues of inequity, race, affordability, and resilience in the context of the contemporary…
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The Agency of Mezcal in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico
The Oaxaca Valley in Southern Mexico is known for its cultural heritage but also for its high levels of poverty and unemployment. Limited access to…
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Landscape Representation I
The rich and varied discipline of landscape architecture is inextricably intertwined with the concept of representation. The first in a three-semester sequence, this course introduces…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Craig Douglas, Rosalea Monacella
Landscape Representation III examines the relationship between terrain and the landscape it supports and engenders. It aspires to explore and challenge the representational conventions of…
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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…
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Constructing Visual Narratives of Place
The seminar explores the representation of identity and memory in the city and its territory. The case study is Boston, in…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive and a playful supplement to computer based labor.
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
Soon will come plausible alternatives to our world.You may have failed in this one but what if you had a million…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism
This course introduces contemporary theories of landscape as a medium of urbanism and product of urbanization. The course surveys sites and subjects, texts and topics…
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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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Cyclical City: Landscape and the Longview
Cyclical City is a seminar about the evolution of cities. Cities are enticingly rich and complex. They are entropic and unpredictable places…
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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…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, August 31, will take place in Stubbins, room 112, rather than Piper Auditorium. This course introduces students to a…
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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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Mountains and the Rise of Landscape
Though mountains are generally understood to be “natural” and “grand,” the way we consider, experience, describe (and design) them has radically…
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Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
This course deals with landscape architecture and architecture in contemporary China. Its purpose is twofold: to articulate new perspectives on the…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
This course is an introduction to the understanding of plants from non-managed plant communities to managed living structures. Through field visits, observation,…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
Steven Handel, Christopher Matthews
Required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (Steven Handel). The fundamentals of ecological science…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored views…
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BROWNFIELDS: Remediation and Regeneration Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence…
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Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
This course will provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
Karen Janosky, Paola Sturla, Thomas Ryan
This course examines landscape architecture practice through the consideration of contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts in which they operate, and…
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Thing Power in the Arles Region: Assemblages, Depositions and Displacements
Anita Berrizbeitia, Katarzyna Balug
Jane Bennett borrows Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of assemblages to argue that humans are not the sole actors in and on the world.
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Jock Herron, Karen Janosky, Joan Busquets, Diane Davis, Sai Balakrishnan, Martin Bechthold, Neil Brenner, Danielle Choi, Daniel D’Oca, Sonja Dümpelmann, Edward Eigen, Ann Forsyth, Jenny French, Ewa Harabasz, Sawako Kaijima, Allen Sayegh, Andres Sevtsuk, Jorge Silvetti, Andrew Witt, Preston Scott Cohen, Steven Handel, Oana Stanescu, Mack Scogin, Christopher Herbert, Lily Song, Gareth Doherty, Panagiotis Michalatos, Holly Samuelson, Jonathan Grinham, Francesca Benedetto, Niall Kirkwood, Sebastien Marot, Eric Howeler, Michael Hooper, K. Michael Hays, Robert Pietrusko, Malkit Shoshan, Grace La, John May, Andrew Holder, Tomás dePaor, Dilip da Cunha, Lea-Catherine Szacka, Marty Poirier, Stephen Gray, John Peterson
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Preparation of MLA Design Thesis
A thesis is a thematic proposition offered for discussion and debate. A thesis is typically developed through a piece of original research specific to an…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Niall Kirkwood, Andres Sevtsuk, Holly Samuelson
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Martin Bechthold, Ann Forsyth, Niall Kirkwood, Ali Malkawi, Erika Naginski, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe
Independent Study with Doctoral Advisor to produce a preliminary literature review. Prerequisite: Enrollment in GSD DDes program. Prep of Thesis …
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar is intended for Master in Design Studies (MDES) candidates entering the Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) stream as well as Master in Landscape Architecture…