Courses
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Landscape Architecture II
Silvia Benedito, Belinda Tato, Kristin Frederickson, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, 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, Danielle Choi, Francesca Benedetto, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosalea Monacella, Robert Pietrusko, Amy Whitesides
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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Broadway Shuffle II: Performance/Space
This studio, the second in a series, speculates on the future of life in the public realm of New York City, where a paradigm shift…
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SEQUESTROPOLIS II: AVs & Afforestation In Conjunction with Harvard Forest
Martha Schwartz, David Bloniarz
Barring a drastic human response to climate change, by 2050 Boston will be dealing with heavier winter rains, droughts in the summer, a depleted aquifer,…
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KOREA REMADE: Alternate Nature, DMZ, and Hinterlands
Niall Kirkwood, Jungyoon Kim, Yoon-Jin Park
The KOREA REMADE studio will advance alternative futures for a reunified Korean Peninsula through the concerns of ecology, technology, and design. The reunification of the…
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Ecology, Culture and Identity: Revitalizing the Cultural Landscape of the Huerta of Valencia, Spain
Urban areas across the world are increasingly looking for innovative ways to tackle climate change, to preserve and enhance their cultural patrimony, and to improve…
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Manila: Future Habitations
Rok Oman, David Rubin, Spela Videcnik
Manila’s extraordinary history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current condition that is one of extremes and great tensions. The city of 25 million is ripe…
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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
The seminar/workshop explores the representation of identity and memory in the city and its territory. The case study is Boston, in its…
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New Natures: Constructing a Brief for Coextensive Networks
This seminar explores the act of brief making for alternative urban landscape assemblies through artefacts generated through film and fabricated models.
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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 focus…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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The Nature of Difference: Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Claudia Taborda
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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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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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,…
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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…
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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. Grading is both precise and conceptual; the core mission of this module is…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Jill Desimini, Alistair McIntosh
Landscape Technology as Design: Materials, Tectonics and Time The course topics are: The enduring concepts of design development in landscape architecture that…
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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, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
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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Urban Restoration Ecology
We will explore principles of modern ecology that relate to restoring ecological structure and function to previously degraded lands. These are often…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered: The conceptual, expressive and practical roles of structure and structural understanding in the design and making of works of landscape…
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Planted Form and Re-Formation: Past Futures and Antecedent Inventions
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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Practices of Landscape Architecture
Niall Kirkwood, Karen Janosky, Thomas Ryan
This course examines landscape architecture practice through the consideration of contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts in which they operate, and…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Sai Balakrishnan, Martin Bechthold, Daniel D’Oca, Craig Douglas, Kiel Moe, Charles Waldheim, Ewa Harabasz, Allen Sayegh, Christopher Herbert, Michael Hooper, Alistair McIntosh, Joan Busquets, Diane Davis, Sonja Dümpelmann, Stephen Gray, Jock Herron, Oana Stanescu, Megan Panzano, Peter Rowe, John Peterson, Andres Sevtsuk, Christine Smith, Andrew Holder, Jennifer Bonner, Abby Spinak, Andrew Witt, Chris Reed, Tomás dePaor, Jesse M. Keenan, Rafael Moneo, Susan Snyder, Edward Eigen, Jon Lott, Jonathan Grinham, Preston Scott Cohen, Bing Wang, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ray Torto, Panagiotis Michalatos, Niklas Maak
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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MDES Open Project II
“Open Projects” is a two-semester course sequence for second year MDes students. As the graduating requirement for students enrolled in the 4-Semester Track of the…
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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
Diane Davis, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau, Alex Krieger, Jock Herron
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 II
K. Michael Hays, Catherine Ingraham
This seminar is designed as an introduction to some of the major critical approaches and methodologies that have shaped the history and theory of the…