Courses
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning,…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Landscape Representation III examines the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. This examination will be developed through methods…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, September 3rd, will take place in Stubbins, room 112, rather than Piper Auditorium. This course introduces students to a…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Rosetta S. Elkin
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Peter Del Tredici, Christopher Matthews, Erle Ellis
Fall term, four units, required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Module 1a: An Introduction to Woody Plants…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regen. & Reuse of Brownfield Lands: Research, Remediation & Design Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines critical aspects of landscape architecture practice through the consideration of historical and contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course seeks to expand on the essential tools and methods required to develop, test, produce,…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation, and Use
This course introduces students to relevant topics, themes, and sites that help us understand the conception, production, evolution, and reception of designed and found landscapes…
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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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A History of Nature Conservation and Cultural Landscape Preservation: Where do they intersect today in urban centers and beyond?
Historic Urban Landscape, HUL, is a new approach to integrating urban preservation within the three pillars of sustainability: economy—ecology—society. In 2011, UNESCO adopted HUL, the…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano & Ryan Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The role of the discipline of landscape architecture is first, to describe and understand the found environment of a particular site and deploy means to…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
Christopher Matthews, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan
SECTION 1: Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The core mission of this class is for students to…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored views…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and located…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, and…
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Media as Method
Today, the models of thought and levels of cognition that underlie the tools and technologies we use still on a daily basis, and over long…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
David Mah, Bradley Cantrell, Andrea Hansen
Landscape Representation III seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. Through in-depth study of the…
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Immersive Landscape: Representation through Gaming Technology
Chad Oppenheim, Eric de Broche des Combes
The course is aimed at investigating new ways to interpret, conceive and describe landscape. While traditional methods of representation will prevail for some time, they…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
Note, the first meeting on Wednesday, September 3rd, will take place in Stubbins, room 112, rather than Piper Auditorium. This course introduces students to a…
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Forest, Grove, Tree: Planting Urban Landscapes
Discussions about the urban forest and tree canopy, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and tree adoption programs are becoming more prevalent by the day. This lecture course…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Rosetta S. Elkin
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano, Thomas Ryan, Erle Ellis
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Notes regarding the schedule: Module 1: The first module…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines critical aspects of landscape architecture practice through the consideration of historical and contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts…
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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundation established in Landscape Representation I, this course seeks to expand on the essential tools and methods required to develop, test, produce…
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Theories of Landscape Architecture
This course will explore the \’know why\’ of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture II: Design, Representation, and Use
This course introduces students to relevant topics, themes, and sites that help us understand the conception, production, evolution, and reception of designed and found landscapes…
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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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A History of Nature Conservation and Cultural Landscape Preservation: Where do they intersect today in urban centers and beyond?
Historic Urban Landscape, HUL, is new. In 2011, UNESCO adopted HUL, the first instrument on the historic environment issued by UNESCO in 35 years. This…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Peter Del Tredici, Laura Solano
Module 3: Topography & Grading/Solano Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The pedagogic mission of this…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The role of the discipline of landscape architecture is first, to describe and understand the found environment of a particular site and deploy means to…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies V
SECTION 1: Topography—-the land—is one of the most basic mediums and tools of landscape architecture. The core mission of this class is for students to…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning,…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
Landscape Representation III seeks to examine the fundamental relationship between landform and the dynamic landscape processes it supports and engenders. Through in-depth study of the…
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Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure: Paradigms, Practices, Prospects
Responding to contemporary urban patterns, ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons…
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A Science of the Environment
The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term ‘natural’ has in recent…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course introduces students to a number of significant topoi or loci (see week one) in the histories of landscape architecture. In general terms, it…
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Maps and Mapping (at FAS)
Charles Waldheim, Matthew Wilson
Maps are often the most effective way to stimulate spatial reasoning and provoke new understandings about our world\’s phenomena. This course introduces contemporary map…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Christopher Matthews
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Mondays: 10:00 AM to 11:30 PM. Lectures Wednesdays: 2:30-5:30…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines the profession of landscape architecture by looking at the historical and contemporary frameworks for practice, the documentation and delivery of projects, and…
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Library Test Kitchen III: Library Machines
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
The Library, up there with the US Postal Service, represents one of the most exciting institutional design opportunities out there. Library Test Kitchen is…