Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Holly Clarke, Jill Desimini
Second semester core studio explores the research and design methods associated with interventions in complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple interventions across a long…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Susannah Drake, Ken Smith, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Emily Waugh
This studio focuses on the development of urban form as driven by ecology and environmental dynamics. The studio will introduce students to methods and representational…
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Landscape Disurbanism: Depolderization & Decentralization in the Dutch Delta Region
Pierre Bélanger, Nina-Marie Lister
Over seventy percent of the GDP in the Netherlands is produced below sea level. To uphold this submergent economy, the Netherlands must spend 2 billion…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure: Network Urbanism in the Los Angeles Basin
Current modes of production and frameworks for exchange have a global reach, yet they have physical, social, and environmental impact when they meet the ground.
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Water City Hamburg-The Missing Link
Hamburg is a booming European metropolis and the Wilhelmsburg Island, which lies between two major branches of the River Elbe, represents the city\’s key development…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Beijing City Northwest
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Jane Hutton
The Beijing Alternatives Studio Series OverviewBeijing, China is one of the fastest developing regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A companion to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing and design inquiry and aims to enhance graphic literacy, clarity…
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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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Landscape as Digital Media
The course will be an introduction to digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital media and…
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Visualizing Landscape Dynamics / Dynamic Landscapes
Landscape modeling requires techniques for representing and manipulating essential landscape elements – landform, vegetation, water, infrastructure, animals, and atmosphere – and also landscape processes: movement,…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008
John Beardsley, Anita Berrizbeitia
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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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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Topographies: Cities, Landscape, and Architecture in the Formation of Cultural Ecology
A few basic premises make up the conceptual foundation for this course. One is that when topography is seen as both terrain and the trace…
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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 Gardens and Public Landscapes, 1600 to 1900
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 Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Emily Mueller de Celis, 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 addresses interdependencies among technical, cultural, and professional aspects of built landscapes at an advanced level in landscape architecture. Technologies are investigated as critical…
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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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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Within constructed landscape systems, materials range from living to…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water and aquatic ecosystems that will: – inform their professional approaches to architecture, landscape…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
Note: this class will not meet on 1/25. Instead, the first course meeting will be on Wednesday, 1/27 from 6-9 PM in room 318.This seminar…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
Today, there are one billion people living in squatter communities worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030. 50% of our total urban growth will…
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GeoWeb: Virtual Worlds as Public Infrastructure
This seminar/workshop examines the growing utility of the World Wide Web as a framework for organizing the world???s spatial knowledge. Three-dimensional virtual worlds such as…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Margaret Crawford, Scheri Fultineer
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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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, John R. Stilgoe, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Thomas Schroepfer, Antoine Picon
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.