Courses
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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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Site Ecology and Plant Communities
DESCRIPTIONThe course focuses on selected issues of landscape architecture and ecology in the context of contemporary and historic projects in the greater Boston area.PEDAGOGIC OBJECTIVES1.
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
The first in the core sequence of Landscape Technology courses, this class introduces the concept of landforms and grading in design. The course will focus…
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Plants, Vegetation and Microclimate
This course emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the natural communities of New England. It also highlights major characteristics of the vegetation, and introduces…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of ecological systems, such as forests, wetlands, fields, corridors, and villages. Focus is on…
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Site Planning
This course provides an introduction to the theories, principles, and methods of site planning and land design practices. Through case studies based upon landscape archetypes,…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Plants, wildlife, microclimate, soil and water are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban landscapes. Topics addressed with ecological emphasis include…
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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natura) and activities (anthropogenic) effect aquatic systems.Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine patterns…
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Land Geometry
Land Geometry ?Earth Surface Systems This course enables students to pursue digital literacy particular to the discipline of landscape architecture through the exploration of topographic…
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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes concerns the conception, production and management of sustainable landscapes from both an ecological and design perspective. The content of this applied lecture…
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Java Programming for Designers
This workshop course is designed to introduce and explore the art of computer graphics programming, using the modern language JAVA. Students will be expected to…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Richard Peiser, Spiro Pollalis
The student conducts a program of individual study under faculty guidance, including auditing of lectures, reading, and exercises as needed to develop skills in methods…
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Second Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh
This course is the second of a four-semester core sequence of landscape design and planning studios. In this semester, students will expand their previous investigations…
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Fourth Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
The fourth of the four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios develops the design concepts introduced in the first year and applies them to…
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The Lakes Project, Mexico City
Guest Critic or Studio Consultant: Jose Manual Castillo OleaMr. Castillo is a principal in the firm Futura Deasrollo Urbano (FDU) in Mexico City. While a…
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Miasteczko Wilanow; Landscape Matrix
Studio:The studio will focus on the design of the public landscape and design solutions for key elements of public space infrastructure for Miasteczko Wilanow in…
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SUPERNATURAL URBANISM: Locating the Next American City in the Los Angeles River Basin
Richard Sommer and Mary Margaret Jones with George Hargreaves as Senior AdvisorSUPERNATURAL URBANISMIn the 1960\’s Rayner Banham suggested a new mode of urbanism in the…
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Studies in Landscape Representation II
A sequel to the course, Studies in Landscape Representation I, this course focuses on drawing and digital computation as modes of design inquiry. A series…
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Site Systems Representation II
A sequel to the course Site Systems Representation I, this course focuses specifically on intermediate concepts of geometric modeling specific to the discipline of landscape…
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The Visual Landscape: Analysis and Management
The seminar will occur on two Wednesdays each month during the spring semester.Seminar reading and discussion, and demonstrations and experiments will include: The visual landscape:…
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Advanced Landscape Drawing
DISEGNO=DISEGNO DESSEIN=DESSINIn Italian and French, drawing and design are the same word.This course concentrates on drawing as a design tool, from the initial stages of…
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Dynamic and Phenomenal Modeling, Rendering and Animation
This course enables students to master the techniques of digital representation particular to the practice of landscape architecture. Participants will employ varying methods of internal…
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Critical Perspectives: Perspectival Representation in the Process of Landscape Architecture Design
This seminar/workshop aims critically to explore the role perspective projection may play in the generation of landscape space. Despite the manifold criticisms levied against the…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2000
Practice, according to Garrett Eckbo, is \”knowing how to do something; theory is knowing why.\”This course will explore the \”know why\” of landscape architecture since…
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Landscape Infrastructure and Urbanism
This seminar deals with the proposition that landscape is the appropriate model and medium through which to understand contemporary urbanism. This seminar aims to construct…
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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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History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1800 to the present
This survey lecture course presents the history of landscape design in Europe and North America from early modern times to the emergence of modern landscape…
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Professional Design Practice in Baroque Rome; Francesco Borromimi, A Case Study
The \”Professional Practice\” seminar takes the great 17th century Roman architect and outstanding draughtsman, Francesco Borromini – the subject of several huge exhibitions in 1999-2000…
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The History of Landscape Architecture Through Plants
Recent developments in the historiography of the European garden have opened up a new field of study – the history of landscape architecture through the…
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
As the continuation of GSD 6104, the course will review techniques and codes for grading such landscape interventions as terraces, stairs, ramps, walls, and landscape…
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Landscape Technology
This course identifies the processes of landscape detail as they inform the physical production of designed landscapes. The course examines the materials, form, and language…
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Plants in Design I
Introduction:This course investigates plants as an essential medium of landscape design. Through lectures, readings, exercises, and field trips, the student builds a knowledge base of…
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Plants in Design II
This course is devoted to understanding basic biological principals and horticultural practices that affect the growth of plants in the human landscape and determine the…
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Siteworks
This course covers the application of landscape tools and techniques in the work of site design and planning. We will focus on the engineering aspects…
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Soil in Landscape Design
This course will cover the fundamentals of natural and human influenced soils and the effect of different soil conditions on landscape design, planting installation, plant…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Plants, wildlife, microclimate, soil and water are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban landscapes. Topics addressed with ecological emphasis include…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Dorchester and East Boston, MA
Brownfields remain of the highest priority in the regeneration of the inner city. Defined by the US. Environmental Protection Agency as an \”abandoned, idled or…
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Watershed and Waterside Development Planning and Design
This course concentrates on how different land processes (natura) and activities (anthropogenic) effect aquatic systems.Part 1 is based on empirical cross-system comparisons to examine patterns…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
This seminar will examine two themes in earthworks: the techniques by which the land is altered through technology and design; and the way in which…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Daniel Schodek, Stephen Ervin, Jorge Silvetti, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Holly Clarke, Kirt Rieder, Martha Schwartz
The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed…
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Gardens and Parks
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
The studio will be cotaught by Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles EliotProfessor of Landscape Architecture, and Matthew Urbanski, who is a Lecturerin Landscape Architecture. The…
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Alternative Futures for Pueckler – Muskau Land
In the early nineteenth century, Prince Hermann von Pueckler-Muskau(1785-1871) laid out a huge landscape park on his estates at Muskau, nowdivided by the German-Polish border.
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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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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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