Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, 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
Chris Reed, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Miho Mazereeuw, David Mah
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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Architectural Design V – IX: Urban Design Studio “Contested Waters, Mumbai”
Option studion in Zurich, ETH.
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Between the Bridges: Beyond Infrastructure
Stephen Cassell, Susannah Drake
The effects of climate change necessitate a radical rethinking of the role of ecology and infrastructure within the city. While the full magnitude of the…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…
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Landscape Morphology
The studio will focus on the transformation of a former airfield into a metropolitan park over a 10-year period with landscape as a medium between…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Toni L. Griffin, Andrea Hansen
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course seeks to expand on the essential tools and methods required to develop, test, produce…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Landscape As Video
Moving images – photographic sequences and digital video – offer the potential for an expanded reading of the designed landscape that transcends the capacity of…
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Advanced Drawing
DISEGNO = DISEGNO DESSEIN =DESSEIN In Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word. This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool,…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, John Beardsley
This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape…
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Ford’s Fields: Readings in Urbanism, Ecology, and Industrial Economy
Across a range of disciplines, landscape has emerged over the past decade as model and medium for the contemporary city. This has been particularly true…
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Critical Ecologies
Over the past 30 years, the study and practice of ecology has broadened from a classical Newtonian paradigm and a Kuhnian normal science focused on…
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Ecological Urbanism
Over the past two years at the GSD, there has been a conference, exhibition, and book on ecological urbanism. The course asks a simple question:…
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Critical History: Curating Images, Objects, Media
Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Galison
This class will take place in the Science Center room 469.Critical History is an experimental seminar dedicated to bridging the worlds of media and things,…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation and Management, 1600-1900
GSD 4142 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of gardens and public landscapes from the Baroque to City Beautiful. Beginning in early modern Europe,…
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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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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to the Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in garden design and urbanized areas? This seminar offers answers by…
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Urbanism, Suburbanism, and Climate
This seminar will explore an important episode in the history of the built landscape as a mechanism of climate management. In the period right after…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
In the first 3-week segment of the course, Peter Del Tredici will cover the characteristics and modification of soils in natural as well as built…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Pierre Bélanger
GSD 6242 Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV addresses the interdependence between site, technology and design in landscape architecture. The ambitions of the course are to develop…
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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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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, and…
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Dynamic Landscape
Piet Oudolf is a prominent Dutch garden designer renowned for his unconventional methods of featuring plants throughout their life cycle. The inspiration for the New…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces students to the business side of the design industry. It highlights the ways in which a design firm is a business like…
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The Military-Industrial Landscape
The military-industrialization of the North American economy occupies a vast physical footprint across the continent. Over the past 250 years, military activity has expanded from…
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PHYTO Remediation and Rebuilding Technologies in the Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 9108 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration with the…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The course intent is to define the design thesis and to frame…