Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Silvia Benedito, Danielle Choi, Jill Desimini, Peter Del Tredici, Martha Schwartz, Eric de Broche des Combes, Nadir Abdessemed
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
Pierre Bélanger, Nicholas Pevzner, Fionn Byrne, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Robert Pietrusko, Peter Del Tredici
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex,…
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Seoul Remade: Design of the ‘Kool’ and the Everyday
The central issue of the studio is the remaking of a contemporary city landscape, fabric and district in Seoul, Korea which is undergoing rapid transformation.
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Miami Rise and Sink: Design for Urban Adaptation
This studio addresses contemporary conditions for ‘urban adaptation’ in an era of sea level rise, and forms a portion of the Office for Urbanization’s research…
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Southampton Quay
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a major European port located in Upper Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city was built at the entrance to…
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Frontier City
The early 21st century is defined by the information age, and characterized by a shift from traditional industries into a knowledge-based economy. This phenomenon forms…
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Wood, Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers have little idea of what specifying something as seemingly prosaic…
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Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
This advanced option studio will examine the role of new mass transit infrastructure as a driver for new models of collective space, in a context…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course will introduce and extend a range of representational techniques and approaches to generate, communicate…
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Digital Design and Making – Landscape and Ecological Approaches
The course is aimed at fostering conceptual as well as technical approaches towards the integration of digital design and fabrication techniques within the design…
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Painting for Designers: Techniques, Methods and Concepts
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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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
The course is aimed at investigating new ways to interpret, conceive and describe landscape. While traditional methods of representation will prevail for some time,…
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The Poetics of Place: Critical Writing for Designers
The seminar will explore the relationship between the written word and visual culture. Students will be expected to visit specific sites in the Cambridge/Boston…
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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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Landscape as Urbanism in Latin America
Schedule updated to 8:30-11:30 on Tuesdays. The discourse and practices of landscape as urbanism as developed over the past two decades can be found…
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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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Super Landscapes, Super Sports
As a form of play, sports are deeply embedded in human nature and culture. Throughout history, sports have had considerable impact on how we…
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Shifting Terrains 1930-1970: Cambridge Modern Architecture and Landscape (Cancelled)
This interdisciplinary research seminar affords students an opportunity to engage in independent research on a theme of their choice; this might be directed toward…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Module 1 Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The core mission of this module is for students…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
Objectives GSD 6242 concerns the subject of design development in landscape architecture. The objectives are to inculcate in each student an understanding of, and…
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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…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
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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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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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered · How to think about structure as an aspect of landscape architectural design thought. · The structural implications of site…
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Poetics of Planting Design II
Danielle Choi, Kimberly Mercurio
Note regarding new course offering: Course SCI-6456 will be changed to SCI-06460 AFTER THE LIMITED ENROLLMENT LOTTERY IS DONE. Students interested in this course…
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Vegetal City 2: Plane Tree Mania
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…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Niall Kirkwood, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Allen Sayegh, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Pierre Bélanger, Martin Bechthold, Panagiotis Michalatos, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
The final design project is an 8 unit final project. As the final graduating requirement for all MDes students, the project involves a substantive independent…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosetta S. Elkin, Jill Desimini, Jane Hutton, 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, Peter Rowe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim, Judith Grant Long, Diane Davis
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 II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…