Courses
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The Ocean State
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin, Gullivar Shepard
Collaboration is the future of design research. Sites are no longer fixed points, but emerge out of the assembly of essential conditions, the confluence of…
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From the City to the Object: Terre des Hommes 2017 – Towards a New Identity
Renee Daoust, Real Lestage, Jane Hutton
2017 marks three important dates for the City of Montreal: ·the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation ·the 375th anniversary of the City…
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Caen Island: Public Space
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Caen is a city of 100,000 inhabitants situated in Normandy, France. Partially reconstructed after World War II, today the city holds lofty architectural ambitions. The…
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Negative Planning in Nanshahe, Haidian District, Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
According to Beijing Master Plan 2004-2020, the metropolitan region will evolve into a polycentric structure, with ‘two axes, two belts and multiple centers.’ The two…
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Los Angeles Study Abroad Studio: The Possibilities of the Wrong Scale
Los Angeles has for most of its life had a deeply ambivalent relationship with the more canonical vision, forms, and mechanisms of urbanism. While seen…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course seeks to expand on the essential tools and methods required to develop, test, produce…
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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of…
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Landscape as Painting
This course will not meet on Thursday, January 30th. Instead, a orientation session will be held from 11:30-1 on Friday, January 24th in room 318.
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On Landscape and Atmosphere
The seminar traces the relationship between landscape architecture and atmosphere. The varying levels of concealment or exposure, immersion or separation are primary to the…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape…
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Study Abroad Seminar: Contested Territories: Geopolitics, Media and Design in Southern California
As a landscape of tenuous contradictions – cultural complexity and social isolation, exploitative settlement and fulfillment of the American Dream, ecological diversity and environmental degradation…
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Study Abroad Seminar: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hyperreality
Contemporary postmodern culture is dominated, according to French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard, by simulation and hyperreality. In postmodern culture the image has become the new…
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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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Tree Stories: Seeing the wood for the trees and the trees for the wood
Discussions about the urban forest and tree canopy, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and tree adoption programs are becoming more prevalent by the day. In this…
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A History of Nature Conservation and Cultural Landscape Preservation: Where do they intersect today in urban centers and beyond?
Historic Urban Landscape, HUL, is new. In 2011, UNESCO adopted HUL, the first instrument on the historic environment issued by UNESCO in 35 years. This…
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Critical and Social Cartography
How might we identify the practices of responsive/responsible social and critical cartography, amid the proliferation of digital spatial media? To address this question, this…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission of this…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The role of the discipline of landscape architecture is first, to describe and understand the found environment of a particular site and deploy means to…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
SECTION 1: Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The core mission of this class is for students to…
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Urban and Suburban Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning,…
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Cultivating Scale: Territorial Planting Strategies
Plants are the matrix in which the earth’s habits are formed and are therefore the basic unit for understanding dynamic ecological relationships. They are a…
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The Oceanic Turn: Advanced Landscape Infrastructure Seminar
Pierre Belanger meets with students Adriana Chavez (March ’13, MDes ’14), Erin Wythoff (MLA ’14), and Phoebe White (MLA ’14). Photo by Melanie Rieders. From…
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Cold Storage – An Interactive Documentary Project
Libraries are not mere repositories, but sites breeding strange hybrids of knowledge, people, and material things. Building on the strength of two years of…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Jana Cephas, Yanni Loukissas, Erika Naginski, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Susan Snyder, George Thomas
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Rosetta S. Elkin, David Mah, Jane Hutton, Andrea Hansen, Charles Waldheim, Ann Forsyth, Silvia Benedito, Gareth Doherty
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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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Bechthold, Charles Waldheim, Christoph Reinhart
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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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
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…
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Creating a Simple Book – FULL
Instructor: Irina Gorstein Conservator, Harvard GSD Max Enrollment: 6 Date/Time: Jan 9-10/9:00-5:00 Location: Conservation Laboratory (Gund Hall, L01)…
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Creating an Online Portfolio
Instructor: Wes Thomas Harvard GSD Alum Max Enrollment: 88 Date/Time: Jan 10-12 Fri, Jan 10: 3:30pm – 5pm…
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Custom Metalwork Studio: Brazing and soldering small metal projects
Instructor: Erica Moody Founder/Principal, Magma Metalworks Harvard GSD Alum Max Enrollment: 7 Date/Time: Jan 6 and 7/9:00-5:00 Location:…
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Eating Well for Maximum Performance – CANCELLED
Instructor: Michelle P. Gallant, MS, RD, LDN Nutritionist Harvard University Health Services Max Enrollment: 40 Date/Time: Jan 14/12:00-1:00 Location:…
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Basic Web Sites Building and WordPress – FULL
Instructor: Chungseok Baek Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 6, 8, 10, 10:00-12:00 Location: Gund 109 Description: This is a…
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LEED Certification Preparation – FULL
Instructor: Scott Simpson and Emma Corbalan of KlingStubbins Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 13-17/12:00-2:00 Location: KlingStubbins, One Broadway in Kendall Square…
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Personal Money Management Strategies for Financial Success
Instructor: Thomas Murphy Director of Student Services Harvard University Employees Credit Union Max Enrollment: 45 Date/Time: Jan 15/12-1pm…
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SALT: Borrow Less. Borrow Smart. Repay Well – CANCELLED
Instructor: Joanne Dashiell, Manager of Partner Engagement, SALT Max Enrollment: 45 Date/Time: Jan 16/2:00-3:00 Location: Gund 124…
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THE ILLUSTRATED GUERRILLA
Instructors: Florencia Rodriguez and Pablo Gerson (Loeb Fellows), with the cooperation of members of the editorial team of PLOT magazine (Argentina) Max Enrollment:…
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A Practical Guide to Shared Housing: How to design, finance and build small residential communities
Instructor: Eli Spevak, Loeb Fellow Sky Milner Max Enrollment: 20 Date/Time: Jan 13, 15, 16, 10-1…
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An Abbreviated History of Western Philosophy I
Instructor: Matthew Teismann Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 6-9, 10-1 Location: Gund 517 Description: This course introduces major philosophical movements…
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An Abbreviated History of Western Philosophy II – CANCELLED
Instructor: Matthew Teismann Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 13-16, 10-1 Location: Gund 517 Description: This course introduces major philosophical…
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Color 3D Printing – CANCELLED
Instructor: David Munson Max Enrollment: 10 Date/Time: Jan 7, 9, 14, 16, 2-5 Location: Gund 516 (Jan…
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Criticism Workshop
Instructor: Alexandra Lange, Loeb Fellow Max Enrollment: 10 Date/Time: Jan 13, 14, 16, 2-5 Location: Gund 505 Description: It\’s never…
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Design Charrette for Brownsville Wellness Center: Historical Conservation in Contemporary Architectural Practice
Instructor: Quardean Lewis-Allen Max Enrollment: 20 Date/Time: Jan 6-8, 1-4 Location: Gund 318 Description: This course will serve as a…
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Design Your Time
Instructors: Frinde Maher, Ed.D., and Ginny Zanger, Ed.D Max Enrollment: 35 Date/Time: Jan 9, 2-4 Location: Gund 121 Description: Learning…
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Extractive Settlement: Fracking and the Urbanization of Rural America – CANCELLED
Instructor: Ann Yoachim & Jonathan Tate, Loeb Fellows Max Enrollment: 12 Date/Time: Jan 6-10/9:00-12:00 Location: Gund 510 Description: Proximity to…
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Grasshopper Intermediate Study
Instructor: Weimao Kong Max Enrollment: 18 Date/Time: Jan 9 from 3:30-5:30 and Jan 10 10 -5:30 Location: Gund…
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