Courses
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Maximum Mumbai, Minimum Mumbai: Repositioning the Cotton Textile Mill Lands, Girangaon, Central Mumbai, India
\”There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay (Mumbai) than on the continent of Australia. URBS PRIMA IN INDUS reads the…
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Mumbai Margins: Rethinking the Island City
Pavements, slums, chawls, colonies, estates as landscapes of renewal\”…many of Bombay\’s (Mumbai) problems are the result not of poverty as such but of the reverse-…
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Mat Ecologies
studio site: Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts\”…mats are…everywhere. We call them fields, grounds, carpets, matrices.\” The mat answers to the recurring calls for efficiency…
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Designing the Ecology of Democracy: Speculations on National Identity, Free Speech, the American Elm, and the Nation’s Front Yard
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Gareth Doherty
GSD 1402, Hilderbrand, Fall 2009DESIGNING THE ECOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY: SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL IDENTITY, FREE SPEECH, THE AMERICAN ELM, AND THE NATION???S FRONT YARD\”The Mall, far…
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Roman Water_Gate: A New Entrance for the Metropolitan Area of Rome
The city of Rome has planned the development of a new commercial port in the vicinity of Fiumicino, close to the International airport Leonardo da…
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Water Front New Haven
Henri Bava, Olivier Philippe, Michel Hossler
Drawing the urban extension of the city center of New Haven towards the industrial port, crossing rail tracks and the motorway to reconnect city and…
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A Parallel Walden: A Landscape of Civil Disobedience
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“… Air, water, wood: all are enhanced to produce hyperecology, a parallel Walden, a new rainforest. Landscape has become Junkspace, foliage as spoilage: trees are…
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Parallel Motion: Walden Pond, Concord / Central Park, New York
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“New York is my Walden. I mean, you don\’t have to be in the middle of a forest, a countryside to be in nature”. Jonas…
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The Endless Landscape – Observations on the River Hudson
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly’ Thomas Cole, \”Essay on…
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The Naked Eye Medusae & other stories
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘Seen floating in the water, (Cyana artica) exhibits a large circular disk, of a substance not unlike jelly, thick in the centre, and suddenly thinning…
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Milan’s South Park
The purpose of this studio is to work with each student to explore his or her own aesthetic in the conceptualization and design of Milan\’s…
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Lost and Found: New York City’s Small Urban Spaces
The studio will study some of the many small urban spaces that can be found scattered throughout Manhattan, Boston, and other inner city areas throughout…
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Studio: Space, Illusion, Ornament
Studio: Space, Illusion, OrnamentGiven by: Adriaan GeuzeAssistant: Max Rohm Open to:Students landscape architecture, urban design and architectureThe schedule for this course is variable. Please select…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River DeltaThe Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of…
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Non-formal Buenos Aires: Public Space Strategies for Emergency Settlements
Instructors: John Beardsley, Senior Lecturer, Harvard GSDMax Rohm, Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires.Studio Consultant:Flavio Janches, Adjunct Professor, University of Buenos AiresSupported by a grant…
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Questioning The Answers: Civic Space and Urban Regeneration
New civic landscapes are vital components of the social, cultural and economic regeneration of cities. These urban spaces are intended to be memorable outdoor social…
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Half a Million Trees: Prototyping Sites and Systems for Sustainable Cities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Kristin Frederickson
IntroductionThis studio addresses design and planning practices of sustainable urban forestry. The decline of our urban forest cover can be addressed as a series of…
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Redesigning Infrastructure – Baldwin Hills Park/Oil FieldA new life for a 1400-acre urban oil field in the Los Angeles basin
The precipitous upward curve of oil prices signals the end of an era– the petroleum epoch. Ironically, this price fluctuation causes long dormant oil wells…
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Boston Botany Bay: The Naked Garden as Spectacle of Plant Psycho-Geography
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”Gardeners are not only botanists, but also painters and philosophers\”William Chambers: A dissertation on oriental gardening (London, 1772)\”What seems to me the highest and the…
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Boston Botony Bay
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
The Boston Botany Bay studio will re-define the concept of the botanical garden for the 21st century. The archipelago of islands in the Boston Harbor…
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Central Park Revisited
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”I\’m a city boy. In the big cities they\’ve set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside,…
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London: From the Olympics to the Thames
Vogt Studio London will take as its site a strip of land, approximately .8 by 2.4 kilometers, located in the Lower Lea Valley. The Lea…
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After La Villette
Why after? After, because the site is located in Paris, right behind the Park de la Villette. After, because we can no longer design…
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LIFE-STYLED – CHINA-TOWN
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
Adopting the 1-9-6-6 model (one central city, nine new cities, 60 new towns and 600 central villages), Shanghai’s 1999 ”One City, Nine Towns Development Plan…
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Open Space – East New York – Brooklyn
This studio focuses on the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, which is historically one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. East New…
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Designing Parks
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully. Course motives:The studio aims to develop the student\’s ability to design urban parks…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto [email protected] Teaching Associate: Neil Cook [email protected]: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Context Informs Form
Context Informs Form is a site based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture. Students will be redesigning…
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Modernizing MIT: An innovative approach to site design and detail
Modernizing MIT is a site-based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture located throughout the campus of MIT.
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Energy Landscapes 3.0
Philipp Oswalt, Theodor Deutinger
The civilization of mankind can be described on the basis of the development of energy systems. With the shift from hunters and gatherers to settlers,…
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California Limnolarium (experiments in projective processes)
A limnolarium, for the purposes of this studio, is a place associated with the study, presentation and experience of inland water ecosystems. It is a…
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Post-suburb – Nashua NH – New Landscape Territories
The old mill buildings of northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire are striking both in their scale and number. An extended sequence of mills stretches…
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Metroport on the Rhine: Strasbourg-Kehl
The site of this studio, at the border between France and Germany, is an industrial port between Strasbourg and Kehl, on the river Rhine, a…
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Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Abstract Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to…
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Rosario Territorial Front
Juan Rois, Leire Asensio Villoria
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot, \”The Hollow Men\” (1925)Latin-American cities, especially those of Indian Laws foundation,…
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Airport Park Zurich – A New Park Typology
Martin Rein-Cano, Gareth Doherty
Encircled by the rapid growth of the adjacent towns, the Zurich airport, a major European gateway, plays a broader role in the expanding urban development…
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SEXY BEAST: MKAD
HISTORY Throughout history, Moscow pursued a concentric growth strategy. The Kremlin has always been at the core of these concentric rings. New concentric…
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Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures – its dominant types. Any…
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Macau: Cross-border Cities
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Territorialism 2
Paola Vigano, Chiara Cavalieri
Key issues: contemporary territories, ecological rationality, life-cycles, embodied energy, inclusion Design operations: conceptualization and scenarios construction Place: Boston Metropolitan Region/Greater Boston I the…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements.Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for plan,…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history,conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes andtheir elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques andtechnical conventions for plan, section, elevation,…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…