Courses
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Christian Werthmann, Shauna Gillies-Smith
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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Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes
Manhattan is experiencing an unbridled period of urban redevelopment. Across the island, neighborhoods are being subjected to radical reinvention. The city\’s post-war collective housing projects…
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Asphalt: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The goal of the Asphalt Studio is to inspire change in the way we think about asphalt spaces. The asphalt landscape is the most public…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A companion to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on digital computation in design inquiry. A series of exercises is intended…
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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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Site Representation and Analysis
This course introduces Geographic Information Systems and three-dimensional modeling from a Landscape Architecture perspective. It is particularly recommended for students concurrently participating in the Fourth…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2006
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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Deleuze and Landscapes
This seminar will closely read French philosopher Gilles Deleuze\’s (1925-1995) writings for their potential to provoke new thinking of landscape design and description. Deleuze develops…
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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 Landscape Architecture II
The history of the modern landscape begins with the paradigmatic shifts in gardening that were set in motion during the course of the 18th century…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh
As the continuation of GSD 6106, this is the second in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module investigates plants…
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Plants and Technology II
Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici
GSD 6219 Plants and Technology II will address the interdependence between plants, technology and design in landscape architecture. The purpose of this course is to…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban…
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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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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natural) and activities (anthropogenic) affect aquatic systems. b(Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine…
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Ecological Strategies for Disturbed Sites
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the reuse and reconstruction of derelict and minimally managed urban landscapes. Emphasis will be placed on strategies…
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Advanced Topics in Technology: Emerging Materials in Landscape Architecture
Since the start of this century, advances and innovations in design materials and technology have grown with head spinning speed. This, layered with institutionalized green…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
There are now approximately one billion people living in squatter communities worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030. Between 60 and 90 percent of…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Preparation of Thesis for Master in Landscape Architecture
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
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets, Martin Bechthold, Kostas Terzidis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.