Courses
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundations of Landscape Representation I, this course investigates further the generative potential of representation as part of a productive feedback loop in…
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Digital Media I: Unseen Harvard: Elements of Ambience
Allen Sayegh, Melissa Franklin
What is an ambiance of a place? Why do you get different feelings from each environment? Are there consistent elements that define ambience? Can we…
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The Nature of Difference: Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Delia Wendel
This course explores how notions of cultural difference are embedded in the design of landscape. Social landscapes—as understood through race, class, nationality, indigeneity, disability, gender,…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
The course is an interpretative look at the characteristic patterns of settlement and attitudes towards cities and urban life that are identified…
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Today’s architects’ ambitions: in search of a new narrative canon
Since the establishment of the canonical narrative of mid-20th century architecture, we have become accustomed to view current architecture as a result…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing…
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Film Theory, Visual Thinking
How do moving images transform the way we think? Introduction to film theory aimed at interpreting the visual world, and developing skills to analyze films…
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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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Property in Common: The Nexus Between Architecture and Real Estate
The course looks at systemic and theoretical issues that underlie contemporary dilemmas in architectural design, real estate, and property systems. It examines…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
“A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall”, a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on…
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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts, and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of…
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Public and Private Development
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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Urban Politics and Planning (at HKS)
In the face of failures and dysfunction at the national level, there is growing excitement about the welfare- and democracy-enhancing potential of cities. Yet, not…
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Cities by Design II: Projects, Processes, and Outcomes
Cities evolve through a complex layering and re-layering of projects, processes, and outcomes. Cities by Design II introduces students to a range of contexts that…
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Advanced Real Estate Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year’s course covers…
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Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
This course focuses on how you conceive, build and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they…
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The Space of Conflict
Conflicts unfold at various interconnected scales: global, territorial, state, urban, human. Their geographical scopes stretch from the localized sites of citizen contestation and micro-struggles to…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This course provides a multi-faceted introduction to urban transportation: the technologies, the institutions, the politics, and the formal methods of transportation planning.
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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
The subject of Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities examines housing policy and planning in urban societies around the world and especially…
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Economic Development in Urban Planning
Course Objectives and Outcomes This course introduces students to the theories, analytic frameworks and financial tools used to encourage local economic…
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U. S. Housing Markets, Problems, and Policies
This course will examine the operation of U.S. housing markets, the principal housing problems facing the nation, and the policy approaches available…
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Resilience and Adaptation Science: From Theory to Practice
Through the lens of climate change, this foundation course surveys the intellectual development of resilience and adaptation in the social, natural and…
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Urban Design for Planners
Course Objectives This seminar course introduces physical planners to the approaches, techniques and tools of urban design necessary to structure the…
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International Humanitarian Response (at HSPH)
Stephanie Kayden, Daniel Maxwell
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518.This course is the equivalent of 3 GSD units, not 4. This course…
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Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
This class is centrally concerned with two questions: What makes a green metropolis and how can planners effectively intervene? Environmental and social…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
Explores issues relating to the development, financing, and management of housing affordable to low and moderate income households. Examines community-based development corporations, public housing authorities,…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course—Market Analysis and Urban Economic—focuses on the built environment and land-use policy. The course combines readings from the real estate economics academic literature with…
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Environmental Systems in Architecture
The primary focus of GSD 6125 is the study of ecological considerations in architectural design. These considerations include the thermal, luminous, and acoustic behavior of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Module 1Topography—-the land—is a basic medium and tool of landscape architecture. The core mission of this module is for students to understand the technical…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the design and behavior of fundamental structural systems. The course focuses on providing a qualitative understanding such that students can…
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Structural Design 2
This course is a continuation of GSD 6227 and, after an overview/reminder introduction, furthers understanding of more developed structural systems and materials in architectural design.
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
ObjectivesGSD 6242 concerns the subject of technology in landscape architectural design and landscape architectural practice. The objectives are to inculcate in each student an…
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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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Interdisciplinary Design in Practice
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate “design led” opportunities that exist in the practice of Architecture. Positioned within the space of interdisciplinary…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
This course will provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning,…
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Advanced Spatial Analysis
The course will investigate a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and analyze urban spatial problems relevant to contemporary urban…
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Adaptive Architectures
Adaptability is the means by which organisms respond to their environments, individuals interact with each other and new technologies are absorbed into…
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Material Distributions: Digital Immersive Workflows for Design, Simulation, Fabrication
This course explores the interplay between form and structure, between architecture and its material support, in the context of digital design workflows.
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
Woodward Yang, Antoine Picon, Martin Bechthold, Robert Silman, Ali Malkawi
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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The Practice as Project
Florian Idenburg, Jeffry Burchard
Background: The role of the architect adjusts as society changes. Inevitably, there will be a continual need for numbers of well rounded, licensed and…