Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Rosetta S. Elkin, Shauna Gillies-Smith, Jill Desimini, Kristin Frederickson, 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, David Mah, Bradley Cantrell, Silvia Benedito, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
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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Agora MML : Reimaging La Merced Market as a New Landscape of Agricultural and Cultural Endeavors
Teaching Associate: Adriana Chávez Emergent conditions demand new paradigms in all fields. In today´s new world, old categories will not suffice: local vs. global, modern…
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Montreal is Back: It’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations
Renee Daoust, Aisling O’Carroll
Montreal Is Back: it’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations Place des Nations 2017 – towards a new iconicity The heritage view…
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The Barracks of Pion: Developing the edge of the Park of Versailles
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Versailles is often considered as the place of the invention of the classic city. Strikingly, the shapes of the city respond to those of the…
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America’s Boutique City
Adriaan Geuze, Claire Agre, Rachel Laszlo Tait
With the rise of new economies and the influx of Millennials and Empty Nesters, it seems there is a new urban biotope. Some American cities…
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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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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…
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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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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the understanding…
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Canceled: Urbanism, Quantified: Modalities of mapping and modeling in contemporary design practice
Contemporary design practice has a habit of qualifying the word “urbanism” with any number of modifiers: Ecological Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism. Relational Urbanism. Tactical Urbanism. These…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation, and Use
This course introduces students to relevant topics, themes, and sites that help us understand the conception, production, evolution, and reception of designed and found landscapes…
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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
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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A History of Nature Conservation and Cultural Landscape Preservation: Where do they intersect today in urban centers and beyond?
Historic Urban Landscape, HUL, is a new approach to integrating urban preservation within the three pillars of sustainability: economy—ecology—society. In 2011, UNESCO adopted HUL, the…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano & Ryan Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission…
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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
Christopher Matthews, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan
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 Town Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored views…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and located…
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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, and…
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Poetics of Planting Design
Poetics of Planting Design is a workshop-based seminar built around a series of investigations into the spatial implications of plants in Landscape Architecture. The course…
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Contemporary Practices in Urbanism
Mark Johnson, Christopher Glaisek
This course will provide an in-depth study of the range of practice issues, methods and strategies for achieving built works in the urban context, including…
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Vegetal City: Projecting Urban Canopy
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Sonja Dümpelmann
In this seminar/workshop we will explore an under-studied but crucially important urban realm—the designed, adapted vegetative canopy—through descriptive, analytical, and projective methods. We will build…
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Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies
The interface between the constructed environment and ecological systems is slowly blurring strategies in urbanism, biological engineering, and technological interface. These strategies encourage the application…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard Peiser, Silvia Benedito, Jana Cephas, Krzysztof Wodiczko
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
Anita Berrizbeitia, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Leire Asensio Villoria, Jill Desimini, David Mah, Jane Hutton, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Bradley Cantrell, Silvia Benedito, Gareth Doherty
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, Charles Waldheim, Martin Bechthold, Spiro Pollalis, Anita Berrizbeitia, Peter Rowe, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon
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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Media as Method
Today, the models of thought and levels of cognition that underlie the tools and technologies we use still on a daily basis, and over long…
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…