Courses
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
The second-semester core studio builds on previous design investigations to address a set of relationships between the site and planning scales. Through a series of…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Paula Meijerink, Paul Cote, Alison Hirsch
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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A Place in Heaven/A Place in Hell. Tactical Operations in Sao Paulo’s Informal Sector
Informal urbanism is the dominant mode of development in the fastest growing cities of the world. Today, we live in an age where over 30%…
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Caught Between Enclaves
The city today is a composite of structure and infrastructure which often produces areas of ambiguity that are caught between enclaves. By the passage of…
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Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (The Netherlands)
Embracing the motto, \”Water is Our Enemy, Water is Our Friend,\” the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management is sponsoring this studio,…
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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 =DESSEINIn Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word.This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool, from the…
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iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/Invention
T. Kelly Wilson, Stephen Ervin
iTimeLightSpace: Architecture/Landscape Animation/InventionCritics: Adjunct Associate Prof. T. Kelly Wilson Director of Digital Resources, Stephen ErvinThis cross disciplinary seminar, which will meet once a week, will…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008
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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The Dead
What do we do with the dead? Humans are the only species on earth to ritually prepare and intentionally place their dead, constructing graves, tombs,…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term \’natural\’ has in recent…
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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: 1700 to the present
GSD 4317 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of modern gardens and public landscapes. Beginning in early modern Europe, the course moves from English…
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The Bodied Environment: Performance & the Movement Experience
This seminar will consider the bodily experience of movement in the environment and how designers, attuning themselves to the kinesthetic potentials of the body, might…
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The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Did Historicism and Modernism help banish flowers? This seminar offers answers by reviewing the history of horticulture…
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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 of GSD…
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Plants and Technology II
Peter Del Tredici, Gary R. Hilderbrand
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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Virtual Gardens
Prerequisites: GSD 2106 or GSD 2107 or permission of instructor. Proficiency with computing and willingness to adventure.Course Description: Examines the special problems and opportunities involved…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course looks at water across the globe in relation to (1) aquatic ecology, (2) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, and (3) human…
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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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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, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Richard T.T. Forman, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Kostas Terzidis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.