Courses
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The Visual Landscape: Analysis and Management
The seminar will occur on two Wednesdays each month during the spring semester.Seminar reading and discussion, and demonstrations and experiments will include: The visual landscape:…
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Critical Perspectives: Perspectival Representation in the Process of Landscape Architecture Design
This seminar/workshop aims critically to explore the role perspective projection may play in the generation of landscape space. Despite the manifold criticisms levied against the…
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Landscape Infrastructure and Urbanism
This seminar deals with the proposition that landscape is the appropriate model and medium through which to understand contemporary urbanism. This seminar aims to construct…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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Professional Design Practice in Baroque Rome; Francesco Borromimi, A Case Study
The \”Professional Practice\” seminar takes the great 17th century Roman architect and outstanding draughtsman, Francesco Borromini – the subject of several huge exhibitions in 1999-2000…
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The History of Landscape Architecture Through Plants
Recent developments in the historiography of the European garden have opened up a new field of study – the history of landscape architecture through the…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Dorchester and East Boston, MA
Brownfields remain of the highest priority in the regeneration of the inner city. Defined by the US. Environmental Protection Agency as an \”abandoned, idled or…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
This seminar will examine two themes in earthworks: the techniques by which the land is altered through technology and design; and the way in which…