Courses
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An Incomplete Performance [M1]
Our option studio will explore the double meaning of performance – working between the short-lived act of theatrical performance, and the environmental performance of long-lasting…
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Nordic Urban Weave: On Domesticity and Civic Continuity
Set within Copenhagen’s post-industrial Nordhavn District, the studio investigates the global challenges of water resiliency and housing—a common yet complex condition in many harbor cities…
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Cancel Architecture II [M2]
This studio continues the investigation of architectural consequences arising from the dismantlement of Confederate monuments presently under way in numerous cities across the United States.
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Underground [M2]
Instructors: Mira Henry and Matthew Au The studio will design two facades and a below level nightclub for an existing retail store along the western…
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Swerves [M1]
Half a century ago, architecture became open-ended. Buildings would change and grow, architects argued, not unlike cities. Architects embraced impermanence, promoted flexibility, timed obsolescence, and…
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The Coming Community
In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben recounts the following tale, as told by Walter Benjamin to Ernst Bloch: "The Hassidim tell a story about the…
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Do-It-Anyway: Place, Tectonics, and Time [M1]
In this studio, students will design and fabricate a project at one-to-one scale in the space of seven weeks. Why? We are living in an…
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Magna Parens Materia
In the last century, architects have been driven by market conditions to build with the highest possible combination of CO2-heavy materials, including steel and reinforced…
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Designing the In-Between; Transecting the Heart of Chinatown on a Forgotten Site [M2]
A curious “missing tooth” in the chaotic and dense urban fabric of Boston’s Chinatown reveals a vivisection of the neighborhood and provides an opportunity for…
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Reconstructions | Abandoned Lands + Abolitionist Futures
Harvard University has recently confronted its history with the release of a report detailing the institution's complicity in enslavement, stretching back to its founding. This…
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Building on Buildings [M2]
In pre-Hispanic cultures, pyramids were often built on top of others. Layer by layer, the structures would grow, understanding that each finished building would at…
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Tower for a Collector [M2]
This studio follows on from a teaching program called “City & Utopia” established 10 years ago in Paris with the aim of exploring the world…
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Housing Future: Reclaiming the Chicago 6-Flat as a Site for Architecture [M2]
Lap Chi Kwong, Alison Von Glinow
The pairing of “Housing Future” and the “6-Flat” is somewhat contradictory. Housing Futures typically point towards advancements in new technologies or new configurations. On the…
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Biospheric Urbanism – Changing Climates
The Option Studio ‘Biospheric Urbanism’ explores how cities can be made more resilient in the light of the ongoing changes of climate. Conceived as a…
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Broadway Shuffle II: Performance/Space
This studio, the second in a series, speculates on the future of life in the public realm of New York City, where a paradigm shift…
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Sea Rise and Sun Set: Modeling Urban Morphologies for Resilience in Miami Beach
"New infrastructure projects are being developed for a landscape that no longer exists.” — Betsy Kolbert, New Yorker This studio will develop strategies for urban…
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SEQUESTROPOLIS II: AVs & Afforestation In Conjunction with Harvard Forest
Martha Schwartz, David Bloniarz
Barring a drastic human response to climate change, by 2050 Boston will be dealing with heavier winter rains, droughts in the summer, a depleted aquifer,…
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SUPERBLOOM: Shelter, Drought, and Sculpture in the California Desert
This studio will focus on the Yucca Valley, CA, and its adjacent desert settlements. Students will consider the desert as a physical and metaphysical void,…
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CANARY IN THE MINE II: Wildfires and Rural Communities in Guinea-Bissau
Indigenous burning practices in mitigating wildfires in Africa are still an overlooked topic in landscape stewardship, food security, and community wellbeing. This gap is particularly…
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Below, Above, and Beyond: Abandoned Underground Subway Infrastructures as Urban Form and Experience
This studio aims to propose a near-future scenario for the abandoned underground infrastructures of the subway system of Boston and its vicinity, with a focus…
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SEQUESTROPOLIS: The City as a Machine for Combating Global Warming
Global warming is the biggest challenge that the human race faces today. Our studio will focus on what a city can do to lower global…
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KOREA REMADE: Alternate Nature, DMZ, and Hinterlands
Niall Kirkwood, Jungyoon Kim, Yoon-Jin Park
The KOREA REMADE studio will advance alternative futures for a reunified Korean Peninsula through the concerns of ecology, technology, and design. The reunification of the…
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Field Work: Brexit, Borders, and Imagining a New City-Region for the Irish Northwest
Niall Kirkwood, Gareth Doherty
The FIELD WORK sponsored studio will advance alternative futures for the Irish Northwest through the collaborative disciplines of landscape architecture, ecology and anthropology. Focused on…
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The Landscapes of the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Over the past thirty years, the "Norwegian Scenic Routes" project has produced imaginative buildings and landscapes in poetic dialogue with Norway's unique scenery and road…
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Rewilding Seoul
This studio aims to elaborate a series of rewilding strategies for multiple sites in Seoul to reveal their immanent nature and mitigate the impact of…
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THAILAND REMADE: Lower Chao Phraya Flood Plain, Pathum Thani, and the Technological Imagination
Niall Kirkwood, Kotchakorn Voraakhom
THAILAND REMADE explores technology and its relationship to design in landscape architecture. The studio will develop alternative futures for Thailand’s Lower Chao Phraya floodplain using…
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LANDSCAPES OF THE VOID: URBAN PROJECTS ON RESIDUAL TOPOGRAPHIES.
Instructor: Danilo Martic I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there because these stones…
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Frontier City
The early 21st century is defined by the information age, and characterized by a shift from traditional industries into a knowledge based economy. This phenomenon…
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Ecology, Culture and Identity: Revitalizing the Cultural Landscape of the Huerta of Valencia, Spain
Urban areas across the world are increasingly looking for innovative ways to tackle climate change, to preserve and enhance their cultural patrimony, and to improve…
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The Monochrome No-image
The earth is no longer the background of human action. Now, more than ever, we can only speak of space in relation to the mobile,…
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OTTAWA COUNTY REMADE: Toxic Transformations in the Tri-State Lead and Zinc District, Oklahoma
OTTAWA COUNTY REMADE is the second in a series of design studios based in North-East Oklahoma that explores toxic land regeneration, indigenous ecologies and their…
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Bangkok Porous City: New Landscapes of Equity and Prosperity 2.0
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
This studio will bring together faculty and students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to imagine how the last development parcel where river and city meet in…
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TUNISIAN NIGHTSCAPES: Nocturnal Landscapes in the Medina of Tunis
The studio will reimagine six public spaces in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia. Taking a long-term view over a 5 to 50–year timespan, the studio…
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Wild Ways 3.0: California Connectivity
Site: Territorial California, from Death Valley to the Central Valley and the Sierra Madre Mountains This studio will explore themes of peri-urban, rural, regional, and…
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Ulsan Remade: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Francesca Benedetto
This studio will reconsider the City of Ulsan, Republic of Korea’s prime industrial and manufacturing center as part of a more livable and sustainable metropolitan…
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Landscape of Trans-Nationality: Trans Siberian Railway (TSR) and Alternative Nature
This is the second studio in a row for Kim/ Park at the GSD that project the role of landscape architecture within the anticipated physical…
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SMO PARK +/Climate Infrastructure, Arid Landscape
Santa Monica Municipal Airport (FAA code SMO) is a 227-acre general aviation airport about six miles from the Pacific Ocean that largely handles private and…
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TAR CREEK REMADE
TAR CREEK REMADE: Environmental Legacy, Toxic Terrain and Re-Imagining the Future in the Tri-State Mining Area, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA. TAR CREEK REMADE will explore…
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Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles
Playing off Reyner Banham’s classic Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, the studio will explore themes of connectivity, resilience and landscape infrastructure under the…
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In the Middle of the Streams: Beyond Landscape Architecture Design & Flows
In 2015 Qatar Museums launched an international competition for the rehabilitation of the city’s flour mill complex—a monumental facility located in the Doha harbor— into…
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Biospheric Urbanism – Changing Climates
Critical MomentThe climate crisis poses the urgent question of how to make our built environment more resilient to the challenging atmospheric changes such as…
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Under the Palm Trees
Sultan Youssef ben Tachfine founded in the 11th century Marrakech as the new capital of the Maroc empire in the middle of a desert plateau…
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Build with Life: Transformation + Formation: Landscape and Islamic Culture
The uprisings of the North African Arab Spring exposed the fragility of countries whose citizens were eager to revisit and adapt their identities in the…
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GET READY HOLYOKE! Climate Preparedness 2050
This design studio focuses on Holyoke, the second-poorest city in Massachusetts and one of the 25 designated Gateway Cities. Sitting along the Connecticut River, Holyoke…
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Away…Offshore…Adrift… Shifting Landscapes, Unstable Futures
Nantucket, meaning "faraway land or island" or "sandy, sterile soil tempting no one” in Algonquin, is an island 30 miles off the southeastern coast of…
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SHADING SUNSET: Reimagining the Streets of Los Angeles for a Warmer Future
This studio reimagines the contemporary public realm of Los Angeles by reconceptualizing its streets as venues for social life in relation to sunlight. This work…
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CANARY IN THE MINE: De-carbonize, De-climatize, De-colonize rural communities
Canary in the mine is a sequence of Option Studios at the Harvard GSD focused on rural territories addressing communities and landscapes subject to ever-growing…
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Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space
This studio aims to project the near-future scenario of Antwerp 's mobility and public space. We will challenge the conventional monofunctionality of urban infrastructure by…
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BANGKOK REMADE
Niall Kirkwood, Kotchakorn Voraakhom
BANGKOK REMADE will advance alternative futures for the capital city of Thailand. The studio subtitled ‘Design to Enhance Social Dignity, Climate Resilience and Inspire the…
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Landscape Synergies of the new Energies
Faster than we would have ever thought we will and do already experience sustainable forms of energy production, storage, distribution and transport dominating and profoundly…
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