Courses
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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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Urban Restoration Ecology
We will explore principles of modern ecology that relate to restoring ecological structure and function to previously degraded lands. These are often…
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Analytic Geometries, Descriptive Geometries: Thinking and Making
George L. Legendre, Cameron Wu
At a time when design software and numerically-controlled fabrication are becoming ubiquitous and commonplace, this lecture-workshop lays the technical and conceptual…
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Interface Design: Integrating Material Perceptions
The course explores the interface between architecture and engineering by examining our perceptions towards materials. Interdisciplinary research has gained interest in recent…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Design as Signal
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyse and reinterpret our environment as a signal,…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture
Topics Covered: The conceptual, expressive and practical roles of structure and structural understanding in the design and making of works of landscape…
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Planted Form and Re-Formation: Past Futures and Antecedent Inventions
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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Optimizing Facade Performance: A Deep Dive on Design Decisions
Building envelopes are at the intersection of design, performance, and occupant experience in architectural design. Façades influence many aspects of building performance…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
Woodward Yang, Antoine Picon, Sai Balakrishnan, Diane Davis, Ali Malkawi
Developing and implementing good solutions to real problems facing human society requires a broad understanding of the relationships between technology innovation, science, manufacturing, design thinking,…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
Niall Kirkwood, Karen Janosky, Thomas Ryan
This course examines landscape architecture practice through the consideration of contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts in which they operate, and…
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Scenes of Design, Development, and Disaster
The architect’s arrival on the scene – like that of the hero, the movie star, and the forensic technician – is an…
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Non-Professional Practice
The course aims to study unconventional modes of architectural practice and their underlying implications. It is based on a workshop format,…
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Housing Tropes* and the Role of Design
This course will focus on conceptualizing the role of design and the agency of architecture and planning in the process of housing…
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Beyond Reconstruction: Mexico and the 2017 Earthquakes
In September of 2017 Mexico experienced a serious of devastating earthquakes affecting not only Mexico City but also several states in the…
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Miami Resilience: Affordability and Health
This advanced research seminar in Miami, Florida (USA) is thematically focused at the intersection of community resilience, public health and housing studies. With a particular…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Sai Balakrishnan, Martin Bechthold, Daniel D’Oca, Craig Douglas, Kiel Moe, Charles Waldheim, Ewa Harabasz, Allen Sayegh, Christopher Herbert, Michael Hooper, Alistair McIntosh, Joan Busquets, Diane Davis, Sonja Dümpelmann, Stephen Gray, Jock Herron, Oana Stanescu, Megan Panzano, Peter Rowe, John Peterson, Andres Sevtsuk, Christine Smith, Andrew Holder, Jennifer Bonner, Abby Spinak, Andrew Witt, Chris Reed, Tomás dePaor, Jesse M. Keenan, Rafael Moneo, Susan Snyder, Edward Eigen, Jon Lott, Jonathan Grinham, Preston Scott Cohen, Bing Wang, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ray Torto, Panagiotis Michalatos, Niklas Maak
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
The Thesis Program encourages students to take advantage of the wide range of resources and research initiatives of the Graduate School of Design and its…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Following participation in the department’s fall thesis preparation seminar (GSD 9204), the spring term of the second year sees students complete, defend and submit their…
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MDES Open Project II
“Open Projects” is a two-semester course sequence for second year MDes students. As the graduating requirement for students enrolled in the 4-Semester Track of the…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
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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Independent Design Engineering Project II
Martin Bechthold, Woodward Yang, Peter Stark
The Independent Design Engineering Project (IDEP) is a two-semester project during which students in the Master in Design Engineering (MDE) program work on understanding a…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Diane Davis, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Eve Blau, Alex Krieger, Jock Herron
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Mohsen Mostafavi, Neil Brenner, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Iñaki Abalos, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Neil Brenner, Diane Davis, Ali Malkawi, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim
Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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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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What is a Thesis? Conversations on Means and Methods of the Thesis Project
How does one frame the architectural problem? How does one begin the thesis project? This proseminar provides a platform for students to workshop and develop…
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Methods of Research in Art and Design: A Workshop-tutorial
This workshop focuses on the exploration, elaboration, and development of students’ research and experimentation in projects that intersect the fields of art…
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Discourse and Methods II
K. Michael Hays, Catherine Ingraham
This seminar is designed as an introduction to some of the major critical approaches and methodologies that have shaped the history and theory of the…
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