Courses
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Karen Janosky, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Kirt Rieder
Topography is one of the primary and most powerful elements of landscape architecture, forming a founda-tion for plant growth, habitat, the flow of water and…
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Structural Design 1
This course introduces students to the analysis and design of structural systems. The fundamental principles of statics, structural loads, and rigid body equilibrium are considered…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
This lecture/workshop class addresses the relationships between landscape design conceptualization, material properties and technologies of making. The class introduces the practices of design development and…
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Product and Experience Design for Desirability (at SEAS)
Multi-disciplinary, project-based course for students interested in designing products, services, or ambitious art or educational works that are meaningful, beautiful, useful, as simple as possible,…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps both represent reality and create it. It is in the context of this contention that this course presents the fundamentals of…
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Enactive Design: Creative Applications through Concurrent Human-Machine Interaction
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Enactive Design is an advanced research seminar on human-computer interaction. We will explore the role of real-time, bidirectional communication between human and…
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Pre- and Post-
Pre- and Post– is an introduction to fundamental concepts, techniques, and methods in digital design, with a focus on the processes of…
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Re-Wilding Harvard
David Moreno Mateos, Joyce Chaplin
This is a year-long class on rewilding, returning a habitat to an earlier form. Students in this course will research historical and cultural definitions of…
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Constructing Heterogeneity
Contemporary buildings are inherently heterogeneous; more often than not they are assemblages of different materials, programs, and subjects. Although homogenous finish layers…
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Data Analysis and Data Physicalization through ‘Wagashi’ Expressions
Data Analysis and Data Physicalization is a research seminar that explores the analysis and communication of data. We use python as a…
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Plants and Placemaking – New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all with a backdrop of human inequality—the…
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Altered Rural and Urban Landscape Restoration
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons, Robert Zimmerman
Highly altered and often engineered rural, coastal, and urban landscapes are difficult and expensive to adapt to the realities of climate change. Food…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
This seminar/workshop explores how to design and make landscapes that are rationally constructed and expressively convincing. This search is focused through the…
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Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory (with SEAS)
Jonathan Grinham, Joanna Aizenberg
This course is an interdisciplinary platform for designers, engineers, and scientists to interact and develop innovative new products. The course introduces ideas-to-innovation…
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Informal Robotics / New Paradigms for Design & Construction
This course teaches how to create original robotic devices made of light, compliant – informal – materials. New fabrication techniques are transforming…
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Ecosystem restoration
Given the current speed of habitat and species loss caused by human development, the restoration of degraded ecosystem is one of the…
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Integrative Frameworks for Technology, Environment, and Society II
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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Non-Professional Practice
"I've never worked for a living. I consider working for a living slightly imbecilic from an economic point of view. I hope…
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Products of Practice: From code to plan to code
A research seminar that critically mines historic systems of representation, instrumentation, and the product (or media) of the architect in relationship to…
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Forms of Assembly (semester two)
"Forms of Assembly" is an advanced two semester research and project-based seminar initiated by Art, Design, and the Public Domain MDes, in…
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Geaugraphy
‘Neoliberalism’ has given globalization a bad name. But the ‘age’ after World War II has also produced ‘détente’ – ironic word – the disappearance of…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Ann Forsyth, Mohsen Mostafavi, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Paul Nakazawa, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Lily Song, Rosalea Monacella, Iman Fayyad, Hyojin Kwon, Allen Sayegh, Ewa Harabasz, Sharon Johnston, Joan Busquets, Jock Herron, Andrew Witt, Martin Bechthold, Karen Janosky, Preston Scott Cohen, Jacob Reidel, Alex Wall, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Gareth Doherty, David Gamble
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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Thesis project / Project Thesis
Andrew Holder, Jon Lott, Eric Howeler
As the culminating effort for the Master of Architecture degree, a “Thesis” entails multiple expectations. It is a demonstration, not only of competency and expertise…
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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…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Abby Spinak, Jonathan Grinham, George Thomas, Ali Malkawi, Allen Sayegh, Ann Forsyth, Charles Waldheim, Chuck Hoberman, Danielle Choi, Diane Davis, Edward Eigen, Eric Howeler, Eve Blau, Gareth Doherty, Holly Samuelson, Jacob Reidel, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Malkit Shoshan, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Sarah M. Whiting, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Susan Snyder
(Previously "Open Projects”) Prerequisites: Filing of signed "Declaration of Advisor" form with MDes office, and approval signature of the program director. A student who selects…
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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
Mary Tolikas, Martin Bechthold
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
Ann Forsyth, Peter Rowe, Ali Malkawi
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, Ann Forsyth, Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Diane Davis, Neil Brenner, Ann Forsyth, Niall Kirkwood, Alex Krieger, Ali Malkawi, Erika Naginski, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim, Anita Berrizbeitia
Thesis extension in satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Methods of Research in Art and Design: A Workshop-tutorial
Methods of Research is a workshop for the development of individual projects in art and design. There is no preset syllabus. Our…
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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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Discourse and Research Methods
Research conducted in the Doctor of Design Program (DDes) at the GSD spans a broad range of topics and areas of investigation that not only…
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