Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Jill Desimini, Romy Hecht
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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The Garden in the Machine: A Demonstration Landscape for Deere & Company
The primary foci of the studio will be: ·The potential of landscape maintenance, its processes, and machinery to inspire potent and inventive program and…
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Gansevoort Peninsula: A 5-acre Unfinished Segment of Hudson River Park, NY, NY
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin
The tremendous expansion of parkland in New York City in the last 15 years has its closest parallel in Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ building campaign…
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Retooling Gabon
Introduction This studio is dedicated to reimagining the future of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, in the wake of recent developments in the country. Gabon holds…
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Peri-urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing:Qinglonghu zhen
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
Overview. Beijing, China is one of the fastest developing urban regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the study and practice…
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Landscape Representation II
Jill Desimini, Rosetta S. Elkin
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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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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Advanced Drawing
The course objective is to advance through drawing students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
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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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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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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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation and Management, 1600-1900
GSD 4142 is a lecture course, meeting once weekly for three hours with a discussion section. It covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of…
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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 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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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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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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
Thomas Ryan, Christopher Matthews
The first portion of the class introduces the concepts of topography and grading by focusing on the use of landforms in history, art and landscape…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Independent Study on Multi-Cultural Design Environments (Summer course)
Independent Study…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
K. Michael Hays, Neil Brenner, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jeffrey Schnapp, Erika Naginski, Sanford Kwinter
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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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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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Silvia Benedito, Chris Reed, Charles Waldheim, Pierre Bélanger, Jane Hutton, Jill Desimini
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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Judith Grant Long, Christoph Reinhart
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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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…