Courses
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Landscape as Photography
Gregory Halpern, Rosetta S. Elkin
In this course, photography is introduced as a means of both expression and documentation. Photographic sequences in particular offer the potential for an expanded reading…
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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 Moving Image
The course traces the genealogy of landscape as moving image in the context of the visual-aural culture of representing time, space, and phenomena. It examines…
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Superficial Spaces
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional surfaces.
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Immersive Environments II
This is an advanced seminar exploring the spatial temporal qualities of the built environment through the disciplines of still and moving image. This seminar…
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Preservation Media Project: The Hatch Cottage
Christopher Hoxie, Mark Mulligan
In 1960 John Hall, a self-taught architect, designed and built a modest yet innovative summer cottage for Robert Hatch, a magazine editor, and his wife…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
This course will examine the intersections between design and anthropology. In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects,…
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The Culture Now Project
Uncertainty The Culture Now Project focuses on cities beyond metropolitan areas or in remote rural areas—Midsize America: a vast area of the American terrain,…
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The Function of Style: 2000-2010
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
During the 19th and most of the 20th century, discussions of style revolved around pure formalism or pure functionalism. Style, as the way of assembling…
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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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The Mixed-Reality City
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities, articulated between built form and imagined space, individuated experience and collective memory, embodied sensation and…
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Planetary Urbanization: Theoretical Foundations and Frontiers
This seminar is the first in a series of courses that will develop the research agenda of the newly founded Urban Theory Lab-GSD…
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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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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
What is the place of materiality in our virtual world? How do film and fashion communicate as objects of material culture? As powerful image makers,…
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Architecture as Global Practice: Expert Culture in the Cold War
This seminar focuses on the transfer of architectural knowledge from the socialist East and the capitalist West towards the post-colonial South during the…
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Refolding the Baroque
K. Michael Hays, Erika Naginski
Misshapen pearl or postmodernist morphology? Stylistic category or generative design principle? Historically-grounded worldview or radical aesthetic credo? The panoply of Baroque concepts in architectural design…
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The Technological Origins of Landscape
Historically, landscape theories have always emphasized the role of philosophical concepts in the rise of landscape. The (modern) self, subjectivity, particular ways to see and…
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Metabolic Toyko (Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar)
Tokyo has been rebuilt numerous times through its history following natural disasters, war and intensive development. Most recently, the profound strains on the Japanese urban…
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Disaster Field Lab
GSD 5343 will challenge its participants to develop design strategies in the face of great human suffering, political instability, high development pressure and coordination…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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The Archeology of Civic Sustenance: Sea-Side Developments in the Gulf
This sponsored-research seminar will address sustainable urban development at the onset of industrial revolution. Going beyond just documenting passive environmental design strategies, the very notion…
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Disaster Recovery Management and Urban Development: Rebuilding Cities After a Disaster
Note, this course will be presented on Friday the 20th of January at 2:40pm in Taubman 275 at HKS. GSD students are welcome to attend.
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Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise
Jerold S. Kayden, David Barron, Daniel Schrag, Gerald Frug, Charles Waldheim
This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Engineering, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric tools that is equally informed and enriched by…
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Advanced Fabrication
Digital fabrication techniques have long been a critical component of the GSD culture. Building on methods and capabilities developed in 6317: Introduction to CAD/CAM and…
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Forms of Energy
Few words can transform the formation of architecture in this century more than a deep and pervasive recognition that matter is but an expression of…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: The Environment as a Signal
This course will explore the application of digital media and computational techniques in analysing the sensible aspects of our environment in both their spatial and…
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Mechatronic Space
The beginning of the 20th century promised a paradigm shift in human life and community as industry and innovation in engineering and science brought about…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
GSD 6445 explores opportunistic design strategies for informal settlements using the case study of Medellin. The study of the miraculous transformation of Medellin…
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Seminar in Urban Restoration Ecology
Landscape architecture projects, at all scales, can involve elements which add to our natural habitats. These restored areas are increasingly shown to give communities “ecological…
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Visualization
The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggering rates. The goal of this…
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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…
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Advanced Research Seminar: School for Year 2030
What might American education look like in the year 2030? By that time, today’s newborns will become college freshmen. The task of looking ahead at…
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Canceled: Martha Schwartz Partners- An Investigation of the Relationship of the Visual Environment and Well-Being
Martha Schwartz, Andrew Zientek
Landscape is an appropriate place for artistic ideas. The visual quality of our landscapes is important to our well-being. These two ideas are the foundation…
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Bibliotheca II: The Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson
Note: Dual enrollment in 09115 Bibliotheca II and Moneo’s 03211 Behind Todays Architectural Trends is possible. Bibibliotheca II: Library Test Kitchen builds off the…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Cultural Tourism and Creating a living community at Al-Turaif, Saudi Arabia World Heritage Site
Al-Turaif is part of the historic oasis of Al Dir’iya located on the banks of Wadi Hanifa next to Riyahd. It is the…
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Airport Landscape: Ecological, Infrastructural, and Urban Implications of the Aerial Age
Sonja Dümpelmann, Charles Waldheim
Airports have never been more central to the life in cities, yet they remain peripheral to many discussions in design and planning. In this seminar…
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Urban Formation and Spatial Analysis in East Asian Cities
Urban formation among cities and towns in East Asia varies in rate and scale both within and between national settings. China, for example, currently exhibits…
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Advanced Research Seminar on Urban Climate
The course examines the spatial and urban design influences on urban climate, and the effects of climate variability and extremes on population health in urban…
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Evolutionary Productions (Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar)
The objective of this seminar is to exam the evolutionary development of Japanese craft culture and production processes through the lens of tools employed to…
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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…
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Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
This seminar offers an overview of various types and practices of research methodology in contemporary landscape architecture. Central to the ambitions of the course is…
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Discourse and Methods
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe…