Courses
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Paula Meijerink, Martha Schwartz, George Hargreaves, Dorothee Imbert
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
Alan Berger, Holly Clarke, Chris Reed, Christian Werthmann
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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“Two” Investigations in Residential Design
This studio explores design at the residential scale through sites located in Manhattan, New York and Sonoma, California. The class will address the form-making capabilities…
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The Regeneration of Harlow
Martha Schwartz, Jonathan Fitch
The Regeneration of HarlowWith Jon Fitch guest Studio CriticGenerously Funded by CABE: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, UKCOURSE DESCRIPTIONINTRODUCTIONThe Schwartz Spring 2005 Option…
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Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region
Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region. OUTLOOKMonterrey is located in the north east region of the country and is…
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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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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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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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Landscape Urbanization
This lecture course explores the theories, tactics and workings of Landscape Urbanism. It positions Landscape Urbanism as an intellectual re-alignment of landscape\’s role in urbanization…
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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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The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Recent changes in the historiography of the European garden opened up a new field of study — the history of landscape architecture from a horticultural/cultural…
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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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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…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Plants, wildlife, microclimate, soil and water are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban landscapes. Topics addressed with ecological emphasis include…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Somerville, Massachusetts
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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Preparation of Thesis for Master in Landscape Architecture
John Beardsley, Holly Clarke, Alan Berger
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and approval by the landscape architecture faculty.In this preparatory seminar for students intending to enroll in GSD 9303 the following term, direction…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Prerequisites: GSD 9205.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
Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Michelle Addington, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Miroslava Benes, Jeffrey Huang
Faculty, Committee ChairpersonUnder guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.