Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ecology, Infrastructure, Power
Extraction redefines our understanding of urbanism in the 21st century. If everything we build comes from the ground, then extraction is the process and practice…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
This weekly seminar is required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent is to define the parameters of the design thesis…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar introduces MLA II and MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) students to a range of disciplinary theories and methods. As design becomes ever more…
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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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The Poetics of Place: Critical Writing for Designers
The seminar will explore the relationship between the written word and visual culture. Students will be expected to visit specific sites in the Cambridge/Boston…
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Landscape as Urbanism in Latin America
Schedule updated to 8:30-11:30 on Tuesdays. The discourse and practices of landscape as urbanism as developed over the past two decades can be found…
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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 how we…
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Shifting Terrains 1930-1970: Cambridge Modern Architecture and Landscape (Cancelled)
This interdisciplinary research seminar affords students an opportunity to engage in independent research on a theme of their choice; this might be directed toward…
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Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies
The interface between the constructed environment and ecological systems is slowly blurring strategies in urbanism, biological engineering, and technological interface. These strategies encourage the application…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered · How to think about structure as an aspect of landscape architectural design thought. · The structural implications of site…
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Poetics of Planting Design II
Danielle Choi, Kimberly Mercurio
Note regarding new course offering: Course SCI-6456 will be changed to SCI-06460 AFTER THE LIMITED ENROLLMENT LOTTERY IS DONE. Students interested in this course…
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Vegetal City 2: Plane Tree Mania
In this seminar/workshop we will explore an under-studied but crucially important urban realm—the designed, adapted vegetative canopy—through descriptive, analytical, and projective methods. We will…
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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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Communication for Designers
\”The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will be…
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Relational Urban Modeling
Eduardo Rico Carranza, Enriqueta Llabres Valls
IRREGULAR SCHEDULE: This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 505.
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Interdisciplinary Art 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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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 recreation, and as…
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Walking: The Art of Walking and its Culture
This is a research seminar on the cultural history of walking, which in different times and places has prompted different modes of walking for…
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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in urbanization? This seminar offers answers by reviewing the history…
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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…
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Poetics of Landscape Construction
The GSD 6454 Poetics of Landscape Construction seminar promotes advanced understanding and executive skill in the design development of built works of landscape architecture.
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The Nature and Culture of Plants
This seminar / workshop course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. The class…
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Ecology, Infrastructure, Power
Extraction redefines our understanding of urbanism in the 21st century. If everything we build comes from the ground, then extrac-tion is the process and practice…
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South Florida Rise and Sink: the Case of Miami Beach
The emergent topic of urban adaptation to the effects of climate change is among the most pressing areas of research for those engaged in the…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, Rosetta S. Elkin
This weekly seminar is required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent is to define the parameters of the design thesis…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This proseminar introduces MLA II and MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) students to a range of disciplinary theories and methods. As design becomes ever more…
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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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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the understanding…
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Canceled: Urbanism, Quantified: Modalities of mapping and modeling in contemporary design practice
Contemporary design practice has a habit of qualifying the word “urbanism” with any number of modifiers: Ecological Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism. Relational Urbanism. Tactical Urbanism. These…
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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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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Designers participate in this reorganization of materials around the…
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Poetics of Planting Design
Poetics of Planting Design is a workshop-based seminar built around a series of investigations into the spatial implications of plants in Landscape Architecture. The course…