Courses
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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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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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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…
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Silvia Benedito, Danielle Choi, Francesca Benedetto, Gareth Doherty, Emily Wettstein, Alistair McIntosh
This studio course problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, climatic and vegetative influences, and varied ecological processes that help define…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Jill Desimini, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Craig Douglas, Rosalea Monacella, Pablo Pérez-Ramos
This studio aims to conceptualize and articulate the adaptive city, the city in a state of flux as it responds to changing environmental, programmatic, market,…
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Re-Tooling Metropolis II: LA!
Los Angeles has long captured the imaginations of designers and urbanists and theorists for its embodiment of everything characteristic of the twentieth-century metropolis, and for…
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The Anatomy of an Island
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1850 The Anatomy of an…
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Excavating Space and Nature in Tokyo
This studio encourages students to reflect on the qualities of hidden nature and culture underlying the metropolis program, and how these factors influence physical space.
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Civic Spaces in an Age of Hyper-Complexity: From Protest to Reverie
As civic spaces must now address manifold demands, more innovative and potent tools are necessary for their design. This elective studio will explore a range…
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Phantom Coast: Transforming San Francisco’s Eastern Waterfront
"Every city is full of ghosts, and learning to see some of them is one of the arts of becoming a true local."– Rebecca…
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Landscape Representation I
The rich and varied discipline of landscape architecture is inextricably intertwined with the concept of representation. The first in a three-semester sequence, this course introduces…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Craig Douglas, Rosalea Monacella
Landscape Representation III examines the fundamental relationship between terrain and the landscapes it supports and engenders. This examination will be developed through methods of associative…
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Communication for Designers
“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive and a playful supplement to computer based labor.
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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…
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Scalar Practices in Landscape Architecture
The practice of landscape architecture creates dwelling – situating inhabitants in an ordered and comprehensible spatial, social and environmental continuum. Scalar practices…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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Field Methods and Living Collections
Confronting the reality of environmental degradation requires more than remote sensing, statistical analysis or institutional restructuring. As images of the changing planet…
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It’s a Wild World: Future Scenarios for Feral Landscapes
The urban wild, as a classification of open space, typifies the polyvalent factors at play in city transformation. As both a misunderstood…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, August 31, will take place in Stubbins, room 112, rather than Piper Auditorium. This course introduces students to a…
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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of…
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Forest, Grove, Tree: Planting Urban Landscapes
Discussions about the urban forest and tree canopy, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and tree adoption programs are becoming more prevalent by the day.
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Rosetta S. Elkin
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
Steven Handel, Christopher Matthews
Required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (Steven Handel). The fundamentals of ecological science…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design…
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Mapping II: Geosimulation
This advanced lecture course is a continuation of GSD6322 Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation. In Mapping II, students will learn the theories…
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Aggregate Effects: Re-Tooling the Small City for Environmental and Social Impact at Multiple Scales
Discussions on the contemporary city often focus on the challenges of large metropolitan areas. The convergence of competing economic, geographic, and environmental systems…
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Ecology, Infrastructure, Power
Extraction redefines our understanding of urbanism in the 21st century. If everything we build comes from the ground, then extraction is the process and practice…
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Ecological Urbanism Field Research Seminar in China (summer course)
This summer field research seminar will offer an overview of ecological urbanism within a Chinese context. Integrating theory with practice and speculation, students will build…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Jennifer Bonner, Diane Davis, Jill Desimini, Edward Eigen, Ewa Harabasz, Peter Rowe, Bing Wang, Joan Busquets, Yusuke Obuchi, Hanif Kara, Remment Koolhaas, Jock Herron, Ray Torto, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Sonja Dümpelmann, Ann Forsyth, Andrew Holder, Jerold S. Kayden, Grace La, Ali Malkawi, Jorge Silvetti, Andrew Witt, Jon Lott, Mark Mulligan, Felipe Correa, Robert Pietrusko, Alistair McIntosh, Jesse M. Keenan, Chuck Hoberman, Richard Peiser, John May, Sai Balakrishnan, Niklas Maak, Francesca Benedetto, Holly Samuelson, Preston Scott Cohen, Allen Sayegh, Rahul Mehrotra, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sebastien Marot, Rosetta S. Elkin, K. Michael Hays, Dilip da Cunha
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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Preparation of MLA Design Thesis
This research seminar is intended for Master in Landscape Architecture candidates electing to pursue a design thesis in their final year of study. The course…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Neil Brenner, Edward Eigen, Diane Davis, K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon
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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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This research seminar is intended for Master in Design Studies (MDES) candidates entering the Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) stream as well as Master in Landscape…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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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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