Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Jill Desimini, Luis Callejas, Rosetta S. Elkin, Martha Schwartz
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, Silvia Benedito, Zaneta Hong, David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria, Eduardo Rico Carranza
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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A Landscape of Security
This studio will explore the idea of the landscape as a means of security. Throughout history gardens or estates have been created as places to…
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Relational Urbanism: Taiwanism
Eduardo Rico Carranza, Enriqueta Llabres Valls
The official studio days are Tuesday and Thursday, but the instructors will be available on other days to meet individually with students at mutually agreeable…
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Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kelly Doran
Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia is a studio that will explore the material and ecological processes and byproducts of the highly…
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Green-Heart Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta: The Haizhu, Guangzhou Case
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
The site of this studio will be the 1200 ha. Wanmu Orchard, a key resource of the planned Haizhu Ecological District, situated in the centre…
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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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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of digital…
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Landscape as Painting
The course objective is to advance through painting students’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will focus…
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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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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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Sensing the Built Environment Through Time
What is the relationship between vision, sound, smell, taste and touch, and the built environment? How have people perceived, experienced, and as a result used,…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission of this…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The role of the discipline of landscape architecture is first, to describe and understand the found environment of a particular site and deploy means to…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
SECTION 1: Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The core mission of this class is for students to…
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Urban and Suburban 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. Designers participate in this reorganization of materials around the…
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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,…
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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…
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On Atmospheres and Design
What is atmosphere? Is it air and weather? Or is it the in-between—effect, matter, immaterial, space, ephemera? How is atmosphere(s) designed when it seems to…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Sanford Kwinter, Jesse Shapins, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Diane Davis
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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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Chris Reed, Charles Waldheim, Pierre Bélanger, Jane Hutton, Jill Desimini, Rosetta S. Elkin, Luis Callejas, Kelly Doran
Following preparation in GSD 9341, 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, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, 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
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (other FAS Ph.D. students may participate with instructor\’s…