Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Silvia Benedito, Danielle Choi, Jill Desimini, 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, Fionn Byrne, Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Belinda Tato
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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Sea Rise and Sun Set: Modeling Urban Morphologies for Resilience in Miami Beach
"New infrastructure projects are being developed for a landscape that no longer exists.” — Betsy Kolbert, New Yorker This studio will develop strategies for urban…
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SEQUESTROPOLIS: The City as a Machine for Combating Global Warming
Global warming is the biggest challenge that the human race faces today. Our studio will focus on what a city can do to lower global…
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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…
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Ulsan Remade: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Francesca Benedetto
This studio will reconsider the City of Ulsan, Republic of Korea’s prime industrial and manufacturing center as part of a more livable and sustainable metropolitan…
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In the Middle of the Streams: Beyond Landscape Architecture Design & Flows
In 2015 Qatar Museums launched an international competition for the rehabilitation of the city’s flour mill complex—a monumental facility located in the Doha harbor— into…
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Kuala Lumpur / Discovering Traces
Spela Videcnik, Rok Oman, David Rubin
The city is a landscape. The connective tissue that binds us all together is the space between buildings, and sometimes on top of them. It…
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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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Constructing Visual Narratives of Place
This seminar explores the representation of identity and memory in the city and its territory. The case study is Boston, in its…
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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,…
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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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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…
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Architecture and Landscape before and after Watergate
In one of the defining moments of the Senate Watergate Hearings, June 28, 1973, Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., put the “central…
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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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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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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…
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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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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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Seminar in Urban Restoration Ecology
Landscape architecture projects, at all scales, can involve elements which add to our natural resources. These restored areas are increasingly shown to…
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Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture
The interface between the constructed environment and ecological systems is slowly blurring strategies in urbanism, biological engineering, and technological interface. These strategies…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered· • How to think about structure visually and qualitatively as an aspect of landscape architectural design.• The structural…
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Planted Form and Re-Formation: Horticultural Interpretation and Invention
Danielle Choi, Kimberly Mercurio
Planted Form and Re-Formation is a seminar that investigates how and why vegetation (as a living design medium) changes over time, and…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
George Thomas, Silvia Benedito, Sonja Dümpelmann, John Peterson, Jorge Silvetti, Grace La, Megan Panzano, Daniel D’Oca, Jeffry Burchard, Diane Davis, Edward Eigen, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Bradley Cantrell, Niall Kirkwood, Natalia Escobar Castrillon, Andrew Holder, Ewa Harabasz, Kiel Moe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Joan Busquets, John May, Ann Forsyth, Fionn Byrne, Gareth Doherty, Michael Hooper, K. Michael Hays, Andrew Witt, Florian Idenburg, Steven Handel, Beth Altringer, Susan Snyder
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Master in Design Studies Final Project
George Thomas, Pierre Bélanger, Martin Bechthold, Bradley Cantrell, Salmaan Craig, Rosetta S. Elkin, K. Michael Hays, John May, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Erika Naginski, Holly Samuelson, Allen Sayegh, Susan Snyder
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
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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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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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 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…