Courses
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Dane Carlson, Rosalea Monacella, Paola Sturla, Amy Whitesides
From Episode to Adaptation: Design for a Littoral Landscape This studio explores climate change, adaptation, and risk as fundamental to the design of the built…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Danielle Choi, Craig Douglas, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosalea Monacella, Paola Sturla, Amy Whitesides
From Off-Shoring to Near Shore: Littoral Landscapes at Work This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Danielle Choi, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Azzurra Cox, Claire Fellman, Rosalea Monacella, Robert Pietrusko, Alex Wall, Amy Whitesides, Eric Robsky Huntley, Paola Sturla
From Off-Shoring to Near Shore: Littoral Landscapes at Work This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Danielle Choi, Claire Fellman, Francesca Benedetto, Craig Douglas, Mark Heller, Rosalea Monacella, Alex Wall, Amy Whitesides, Min Yeo
From Off-Shoring to Near Shore: Littoral Landscapes at Work This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Danielle Choi, Francesca Benedetto, Mark Heller, Adam Anderson, Rosalea Monacella, Alex Wall, Amy Whitesides
From Off-Shoring to Near Shore: Littoral Landscapes at Work This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people…
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North Adams Central Park: MASS ART for MASS MoCA
North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA. Historically, North Adams was a mill town located in a stunning valley, surrounded by…
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Adrift and Indeterminate: Designing for Perpetual Migration on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
Virginia’s Eastern Shore, which together with its northern Maryland counterpart forms and protects the massive Chesapeake Bay estuary, is confronting sea level rise at a…
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Washington Common – Martin Luther King, Jr., Upended [M1]
While the 1902 Senate Park Commission set forth a vision for the National Mall and the Monumental Core that is known to the world, its…
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‘AQUA INCOGNITA:’ Deciphering Liquid Territories in the Mexican Altiplano
Aligned with the GSD´s focus on Mexico´s urbanization challenges, and with a further commitment to advancing research by design at the GSD, Aqua Incognita aims to…
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Canary in the Mine: A Design Foray into the Rural Habitats of Guinea-Bissau
What?Guinea-Bissau is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in West Africa due to the low-lying/flat topographical conditions, low nutrient soils, and…
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AQUA INCOGNITA: Designing for extreme climate resilience in Monterrey, MX
Aqua Incognita continues to engage students in grappling with water-resilient urbanization processes, through the design of nature-based [1] reparative actions in the water-scarce region of…
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The Possibility of an Island
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘There exists in the midst of timethe possibility of an island’– Michel Houellebecq The Possibility of an Island forms the first installment of…
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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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Inherent Vice
The studio will focus on the art of transforming and creating new landscapes within an urban site conditioned by existing infrastructure and complex contextual circumstances.
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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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Now Arriving: A Manhattan Transit Landscape
This studio, third in a series in New York City, contemplates the insertion of a landscape where none exists today, where more than 650,000…
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Geographical Reenchantment: Swiss Landscape Interventions between Atmosphere, Function + Experience
In tiny Switzerland, landscape is regarded as a resource that serves lobbies from agriculture and speculation, to infrastructure, ecology, tourism, and recreation, each with a…
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Washington Common, An Unmonumental Core for Our Capital City [M2]
Congress shall make no law…prohibiting…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.—First Constitutional Amendment,…
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The Immeasurable Enclosure
This option studio proposes using immeasurability as the aesthetic and spatial expression of the public realm and asks students to imagine immeasurable single-space enclosures as…
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What Is a Lake? Post industrial Landscapes in Texcoco
Just a few kilometers north from Mexico City’s historic colonial center lies the arid desiccated lakebed of former Lago Texcoco. Historically, Texcoco has acted as…
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Island of Enchantment: Atmospheric Grounds
What we believed to be the reliable and predictable nature of the atmosphere made tangible through the phenomena of weather no longer holds true ……
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Alternative Futures for Al-`Ula, Saudi Arabia
The region of Al-`Ula, Saudi Arabia — northwest of Medina, inland from the Red Sea, and along the ancient Mediterranean ‘incense route’ — has been…
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Manifestos for Building the Utopia
Loreta Castro, Gabriela Carrillo
The continuous ground movements that happen in Mexico City, specifically those that have occurred during the last 40 years, demonstrate the territory’s frailty due to…
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ENTO: Fostering Insect/Human Relationships through Design
This studio will focus on designing for insects, one of the most ubiquitous and diverse groups of animals on the planet. At first glance, this…
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Towards Territorial Transition – Decarb Luxe
Why (the relevance):The studio “Territorial Transition” invites students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds (landscape, urbanism, architecture) to design transition on a territorial scale that faces…
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Beyond Borders Life Abounds
Borders are everywhere: between countries, between populations, between outside & inside, between disciplines, between genders… In early childhood, we see a being in the making,…
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Le Havre : Transformation of the Reconstructed City
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a large European port located in Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city of Le Havre was constructed at the…
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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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Broadway Shuffle at Madison Square: The Surface is Alive!
Our city streets have become contested space. If you want proof, look no farther than urban mobility guru Jeanette Sadik-Kahn’s widely anticipated new book, Street…
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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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RHIZOSPHERE
A new understanding of the relationship between agriculture and ecology will give the students new clues to design in the vernacular landscape of La Camargue…
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Social Operative Infrastructure: Sustainable Water Models in Chile
Eugenio Simonetti, Tomas Folch
According to the World Bank, countries need to invest 4.5 percent of their GDP in infrastructure to reach the Sustainable Development Goals…
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The Right to the Sewage
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
The Mezquital Valley is the world’s longest running experiment with wastewater agriculture, having received all of Mexico City’s untreated sewage continuously since 1901. What started…
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Harnessing the Future
Thomas Oslund, Catherine Murray
Harnessing the Future: How the Internet’s Physical Digital Infrastructure Influences Landscape, Local Economies, and the Ecologies of Communities. Project Goal:Envision strategies to generate sustainable…
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The Immeasurable Enclosure
This option studio offers immeasurability as the aesthetic and spatial expression of the public realm and asks students to imagine immeasurable single-space enclosures as forums…
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Harnessing The Future; How the Internet’s Digital Infrastructure Influences the Global Landscape
Thomas Oslund, Catherine Murray
Studio Challenge: Digital infrastructure has become the connective tissue of today’s civilization weaving together culture, community, and humanity from a historical compendium of events…
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Arlington National Cemetery: Engaging Hallowed Ground
Opened in 1864 to accommodate the massive casualties from America’s Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery is revered as the most hallowed shrine to the…
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The Immeasurable Enclosure
This option studio explores the ability of a single enclosed space to be the spatial expression of that which is immeasurable. The garden and the…
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Seeking Abundance – Designing Engagement and Experience for All
The landscape, is where inequity has always, and continues to express itself. Access to health, wealth, safety and education are embedded in the timeless wheeling and…
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Seeking Abundance: Designing Engagement and Experience for All
The landscape, the land itself, is where inequity has always, and continues to express itself. Access to health, wealth, safety and education are embedded in…
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Aqua Incognita II: Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano
Aqua Incognita II engages students in research by design, furthering the GSD focus on Mexico’s urbanization challenges, by advancing nature-positive[1] reparative actions in the water-scarce…
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Biospheric Urbanism – Changing Climates
The Option Studio ‘Biospheric Urbanism’ explores how cities can be made more resilient in the light of the ongoing changes of climate. Conceived as a…
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Re-Tooling Metropolis: Provisional Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism in Houston’s Eastern Bayous
Re-tooling will cultivate conversations on the nature of contemporary urbanism, on the primacy of landscape in transforming the city, and on the opportunities and challenges…
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FALLOWSCAPES, Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles, France
Anita Berrizbeitia, Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud
On a promontory on the left bank of the lower Rhone River, just before it reaches the Mediterranean Sea, the city of Arles presides over…
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In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment [M1]
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment: landscape interventions between atmosphere, function + experience Both a Swiss and global phenomena, landscapes today are increasingly regarded as a…
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Trauma-Informed Design at Parrott Creek
Parrott Creek Child & Family Services – an 80-acre creekside facility in Portland, Oregon – support's some of Portland's most vulnerable community members: children and…
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Mar·gi·na·lia. Marginality and redemption in New York City, alternative landscapes for Rikers Island
Rikers Islands stands as a critical site to investigate scenarios of climate change mitigation, energy transition, community centered models of land regeneration and, eventually, experimenting…
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In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment continued [M2]
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment continued: a landscape intervention of function, atmosphere and identity Both a Swiss and global phenomena, landscapes today are increasingly regarded…
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Transient Ecologies: The Landscape of Massive Temporary Dwelling
It is commonplace to think of our time as one of constant mobility, a concept that has been attached to geopolitical, cultural, and social definitions,…
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Dreamscapes of Aurora: Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation
“The people’s history of bathing is one of shared space. Histories and practices of the bath belong to histories and practices of the commons. Bathing…