Courses
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Plants of Ritual: Creating a Spiritual Connection to the Designed Landscape
The seminar aims to investigate and catalog plants that have a spiritual/emotional value to the public and to individuals in the designed landscape. The seminar…
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Plants of Ritual: Creating a Spiritual Connection to the Designed Landscape
The seminar aims to investigate and catalog plants that have a spiritual/emotional value to the public and individuals in the designed landscape. The seminar’s goal…
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CONTESTED Landscapes + COUNTER Narratives
No place holds one, singular story. Every place, every site is complex, layered, and full of history. This seminar will explore how a critical place-based…
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Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning (at FAS)
What is a just society? What do we owe one another as citizens? What is a good life? These questions, long debated by philosophers, arise…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
This course is an introduction to the understanding of plants from non-managed plant communities to managed living structures. Through field visits, observation,…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Teresa Gali Izard, Matthew Cunningham, Doug Reed
This course is an introduction to understanding plants, from unmanaged plant communities to managed living structures. Through field visits, observation, lectures, short…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
This course recognizes plants as one of the most expressive materials of the artform — a living medium that distinguishes the discipline from the other…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Cunningham, Kristin Frederickson
This course recognizes plants as one of the most expressive materials of the artform — a living medium that distinguishes the discipline from the other…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
This course recognizes plants as one of the most expressive materials of the artform — a living medium that distinguishes the discipline from the other…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
This course recognizes plants as one of the most expressive materials of the artform — a living medium that distinguishes the discipline from the other…
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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 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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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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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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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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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
David Moreno Mateos, Christopher Matthews
Required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (David Moreno-Mateos): Landscape architecture incorporates an additional…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
David Moreno Mateos, Christopher Matthews
Required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecology and the Design World (David Moreno-Mateos): Landscape architecture incorporates an…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
David Moreno Mateos, Christopher Matthews
Ecology and the Design World (David Moreno-Mateos): Landscape architecture incorporates an additional layer of complexity to design that is less present in other design disciplines:…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
Estefania Fernandez Barrancos, Matthew Girard
Ecology and the Design World (Estefania Fernandez Barrancos): Landscape architecture incorporates an additional layer of complexity to design that is less present in other design…
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Climate by Design
Jill Desimini, David Moreno Mateos, Martha Schwartz, Emily Wettstein
Through a series of case studies, this course will explore paradigmatic design responses to the climate crisis including adaptation (both for communities to remain and…
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Climate by Design
Jill Desimini, David Moreno Mateos, Martha Schwartz
Through a series of case studies, this course will explore paradigmatic design responses to the climate crisis including adaptation (both for communities to remain and…
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Climate by Design
Amy Whitesides, Kira Clingen, David Moreno Mateos
Through a series of case studies, this course will explore paradigmatic design responses to the climate crisis including adaptation (both for communities to remain and…
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Climate by Design
The climate crisis is here now and for the foreseeable future. For designers who shape the built environment, there is an urgent need to respond…
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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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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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BROWNFIELDS: Remediation and Regeneration Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence…
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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…
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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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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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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, and contribute to…
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Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
GSD 6333 covers water across the globe in relation to (1) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, (2) aquatic ecology, and (3) human activities,…
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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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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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Scale in Landscape Architecture
This seminar studies concepts of scale in landscape architecture and critically assesses how they are operative in the planning, design and making…
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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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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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Models, Prototypes and Projections
From the discipline’s aesthetic ambitions to its wider scientific background, conceptual models of the environment have formed a thread between practices of…
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Re-Wilding Harvard
David Moreno Mateos, Joyce Chaplin
This is a year-long class on rewilding, returning a habitat to an earlier form. Students in this course will research historical and cultural definitions of…
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Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons, Robert Zimmerman
Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include coastal wetland development, sediment movement in estuaries and long-shore, natural…
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Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign
Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include understanding human impacts on natural systems through engineering and design,…
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Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign
Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include understanding human impacts on natural systems through engineering and design,…
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Power||Energy: mapping the thickened ground of labor
The definition of energy is dominated by a western logic of energy as a resource. This understanding was focused on the primary objective of putting…
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Power||Energy: Mapping the Thickened Ground of Labor
The definition of energy is dominated by a western logic of energy as a resource. This understanding was focused on the primary objective of putting…
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Power||Energy: Mapping the Thickened Ground of Labor
The definition of energy is dominated by a western logic of energy as a resource. This understanding was focused on the primary objective of putting…
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Designing with/for Micro-climates
Designing with/for Micro-climates is a hands-on seminar dedicated to the making of thermal environments through multiple techniques at different scales of design – from the…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (at FAS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (FAS)
How can we address the issue of climate change, reducing the damages by preparing for impacts already underway and fixing the problem by transforming our…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (HKS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate…