Courses
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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…
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Silvia Benedito, Francesca Benedetto, Danielle Choi, Gareth Doherty, Zaneta Hong, 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
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Fionn Byrne, Bradley Cantrell, Susannah Drake, David Mah, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Jonathan Scelsa
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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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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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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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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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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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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INTERFACE: Constructing the Edge for Malaysia Vision Valley
Malaysia Vision Valley (MVV) is a new economic growth area announced by the Malaysian Government in 2015. Comprising of 108,000 hectares of land on the…
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Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. The primary objective of the course…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
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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Drawing for Designers: Technics of Expression, Articulation and Representation
The course objective is to advance students' visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Drawing projects will focus on…
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Digital Media for Designers: Urban Environments
The course is aimed at fostering conceptual as well as technical approaches towards the integration of digital design within the process of…
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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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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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Abstraction in Design with Plants
This course explores the expressive potential of plants as a central medium of landscape design, recognizing the principal role of plants in…
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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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Transformation of Nature and the Nature of Transformation
The topic of this seminar is how do landscape architects ‘transform” the materials they invoke. We all use the lazy term ‘nature’, but its treatments…
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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
Fall term, four units, required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (Steven Handel). The…
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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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