Courses
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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 and planning will…
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Digital Media and Material Practice
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
The course will investigate the opportunities presented by digital design and fabrication techniques to engage more directly with design as a material practice. The course…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
This lecture course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. It will cover both the…
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Plugged-in Territories I: Icelandic Energy Landscapes
This advanced research seminar investigates the spatial and ecological implications of the recent shifts in the cultural perception of energy exploitation in Iceland. …
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars of this course will compliment Studio option 1602: Common Frameworks. It will provide the theoretical and historical basis, and…
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Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kelly Doran
This seminar will investigate the material and ecological processes related to the development of the Proyecto Hidroaysén (PHA) in the Chilean Patagonia. The PHA, a…
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Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
Bridging the analog and the digital worlds, the offline and the online, libraries represent one of the most exciting opportunities for design and redesign on…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
A. Hashim Sarkis, Ray Torto, Michael Herzfeld, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Jill Desimini, Jane Hutton, Pierre Bélanger, Iñaki Abalos, Florian Idenburg, Mariana Ibanez, Rahul Mehrotra, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Andreas Georgoulias, Andrea Hansen, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Chris Reed, John Nastasi, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, Eve Blau, Cameron Wu, Erkin Ozay, Christopher Hoxie, Niall Kirkwood, Mark Mulligan, Jorge Silvetti, Anita Berrizbeitia, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Ann Forsyth, Diane Davis, Martin Bechthold
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard T.T. Forman, Allen Sayegh, Sanford Kwinter, Jesse Shapins, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Diane Davis
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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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent of the course is to define the parameters of the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9205, 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
Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Christoph Reinhart
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood in relation to…
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Research Methods in Urbanism
Charles Waldheim, Jason Rebillot
This seminar traces a range of approaches to urban research across the disciplines represented at the GSD. It surveys the complex, and often contradictory ideological…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Landscape Architecture II
Anita Berrizbeitia, Jill Desimini, Romy Hecht
Second semester core studio explores the research and design methods associated with interventions in complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple interventions across a long…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Chris Reed, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Miho Mazereeuw, David Mah
This studio focuses on the development of urban form as driven by ecology and environmental dynamics. The studio will introduce students to methods and representational…
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The Garden in the Machine: A Demonstration Landscape for Deere & Company
The primary foci of the studio will be: ·The potential of landscape maintenance, its processes, and machinery to inspire potent and inventive program and…
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Gansevoort Peninsula: A 5-acre Unfinished Segment of Hudson River Park, NY, NY
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin
The tremendous expansion of parkland in New York City in the last 15 years has its closest parallel in Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ building campaign…
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Retooling Gabon
Introduction This studio is dedicated to reimagining the future of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, in the wake of recent developments in the country. Gabon holds…
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Peri-urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing:Qinglonghu zhen
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
Overview. Beijing, China is one of the fastest developing urban regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the study and practice…
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Landscape Representation II
Jill Desimini, Rosetta S. Elkin
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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Landscape as Photography
Gregory Halpern, Rosetta S. Elkin
In this course, photography is introduced as a means of both expression and documentation. Photographic sequences in particular offer the potential for an expanded reading…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Landscape as Moving Image
The course traces the genealogy of landscape as moving image in the context of the visual-aural culture of representing time, space, and phenomena. It examines…
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Advanced Drawing
The course objective is to advance through drawing students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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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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The Culture Now Project
Uncertainty The Culture Now Project focuses on cities beyond metropolitan areas or in remote rural areas—Midsize America: a vast area of the American terrain,…
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Critical Ecologies
Over the past 30 years, the study and practice of ecology has broadened from a classical Newtonian paradigm and a Kuhnian normal science focused on…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation and Management, 1600-1900
GSD 4142 is a lecture course, meeting once weekly for three hours with a discussion section. It covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of…
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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: Seminar
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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The Technological Origins of Landscape
Historically, landscape theories have always emphasized the role of philosophical concepts in the rise of landscape. The (modern) self, subjectivity, particular ways to see and…
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Disaster Field Lab
GSD 5343 will challenge its participants to develop design strategies in the face of great human suffering, political instability, high development pressure and coordination…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
In the first 3-week segment of the course, Peter Del Tredici will cover the characteristics and modification of soils in natural as well as built…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Pierre Bélanger
GSD 6242 Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV addresses the interdependence between site, technology and design in landscape architecture. The ambitions of the course are to develop…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
Thomas Ryan, Christopher Matthews
The first portion of the class introduces the concepts of topography and grading by focusing on the use of landforms in history, art and landscape…
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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…
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Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise
Jerold S. Kayden, David Barron, Daniel Schrag, Gerald Frug, Charles Waldheim
This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Engineering, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
GSD 6445 explores opportunistic design strategies for informal settlements using the case study of Medellin. The study of the miraculous transformation of Medellin…
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Seminar in Urban Restoration Ecology
Landscape architecture projects, at all scales, can involve elements which add to our natural habitats. These restored areas are increasingly shown to give communities “ecological…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces students to the business side of the design industry. It highlights the ways in which a design firm is a business like…
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PHYTO Remediation and Rebuilding Technologies in the Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 9108 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration…
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Canceled: Martha Schwartz Partners- An Investigation of the Relationship of the Visual Environment and Well-Being
Martha Schwartz, Andrew Zientek
Landscape is an appropriate place for artistic ideas. The visual quality of our landscapes is important to our well-being. These two ideas are the foundation…
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Airport Landscape: Ecological, Infrastructural, and Urban Implications of the Aerial Age
Sonja Dümpelmann, Charles Waldheim
Airports have never been more central to the life in cities, yet they remain peripheral to many discussions in design and planning. In this seminar…
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Independent Study on Multi-Cultural Design Environments (Summer course)
Independent Study…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
K. Michael Hays, Neil Brenner, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jeffrey Schnapp, Erika Naginski, Sanford Kwinter
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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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The course intent is to define the design thesis and to frame…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Silvia Benedito, Chris Reed, Charles Waldheim, Pierre Bélanger, Jane Hutton, Jill Desimini
Following preparation in GSD 9205, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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