Courses
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Paula Meijerink, Martha Schwartz
This course is the second of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, students will expand their previous investigations…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
The fourth of the four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios develops the design concepts introduced in the first year and applies them to…
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Altered Faces: Reworking the Teheran Corridor, Seoul, Korea
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
Instructors:Niall KirkwoodAlistair McIntoshWoo-kyung SimCourse Description:The topic of the studio is the temporal nature of the urban landscape in the 21st century global city. As continued…
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Interstatial Spaces – Central Midtown, New York
INTERSTITIAL SPACES – CENTRAL MIDTOWN, NEW YORK CITYPROTOTYPE / PROVISIONAL SPACE / DESIGN PROPOSITIONThe study area for the studio will be privately owned public spaces…
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Landscape as Urbanism: Milwaukee, Tower Automotive Site
For many designers across a range of disciplines, landscape has recently emerged as a model for contemporary urbanism. This is particularly true in North American…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A sequel to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing and digital computation as modes of design inquiry. A series…
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Site Systems Representation II
A sequel to the course Site Systems Representation I, this course focuses specifically on intermediate concepts of geometric modeling specific to the discipline of landscape…
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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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Advanced Drawing
DISEGNO=DISEGNO DESSEIN=DESSINIn Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word.This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool, from the initial stages of…
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Dynamic and Phenomenal Modeling, Rendering and Animation
This course enables students to master the techniques of digital representation particular to the practice of landscape architecture. Participants will employ varying methods of internal…
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M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape Spatiality
M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape SpatialityContemporary philosophical, design and cultural criticism recognize the phenomenon of \”montage\” as a visual discourse particularly analogous to the disjunctive and…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2000
Practice, according to Garrett Eckbo, is \’knowing how to do something; theory is knowing why.\’This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since…
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Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
Modernization of the United States visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing,…
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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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History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1800 to the present
This survey lecture course presents the history of landscape design in Europe and North America from early modern times to the emergence of modern landscape…
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
As the continuation of GSD 6104, the course will review techniques and codes for grading such landscape interventions as terraces, stairs, ramps, walls, and landscape…
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Landscape Technology
This course identifies the processes of landscape detail as they inform the physical production of designed landscapes. The course examines the materials, form, and language…
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Plants in Design I
Introduction:This course investigates plants as an essential medium of landscape design. Through lectures, readings, exercises, and field trips, the student builds a knowledge base of…
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Plants in Design II
This course is devoted to understanding basic biological principals and horticultural practices that affect the growth of plants in the human landscape and determine the…
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Siteworks
This course covers the application of landscape tools and techniques in the work of site design and planning. We will focus on the engineering aspects…
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Advanced Topics in Landscape Ecology
An in-depth review of one or more topics of current interest concerning ecological spatial patterns, flows, and changes in the landscape. In spring 2004 the…
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Soil in Landscape Design
This elective course will cover the characteristics of soils in natural as well as built environments, giving as much emphasis to the biological aspects of…