Courses
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent of the course is to define the parameters of the…
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood in relation to…
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Research Methods in Urbanism
Charles Waldheim, Jason Rebillot
This seminar traces a range of approaches to urban research across the disciplines represented at the GSD. It surveys the complex, and often contradictory ideological…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Landscape as Photography
Gregory Halpern, Rosetta S. Elkin
In this course, photography is introduced as a means of both expression and documentation. Photographic sequences in particular offer the potential for an expanded reading…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Landscape as Moving Image
The course traces the genealogy of landscape as moving image in the context of the visual-aural culture of representing time, space, and phenomena. It examines…
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The Culture Now Project
Uncertainty The Culture Now Project focuses on cities beyond metropolitan areas or in remote rural areas—Midsize America: a vast area of the American terrain,…
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Critical Ecologies
Over the past 30 years, the study and practice of ecology has broadened from a classical Newtonian paradigm and a Kuhnian normal science focused on…
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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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The Technological Origins of Landscape
Historically, landscape theories have always emphasized the role of philosophical concepts in the rise of landscape. The (modern) self, subjectivity, particular ways to see and…
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Disaster Field Lab
GSD 5343 will challenge its participants to develop design strategies in the face of great human suffering, political instability, high development pressure and coordination…
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Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise
Jerold S. Kayden, David Barron, Daniel Schrag, Gerald Frug, Charles Waldheim
This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Engineering, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
GSD 6445 explores opportunistic design strategies for informal settlements using the case study of Medellin. The study of the miraculous transformation of Medellin…
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Seminar in Urban Restoration Ecology
Landscape architecture projects, at all scales, can involve elements which add to our natural habitats. These restored areas are increasingly shown to give communities “ecological…
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PHYTO Remediation and Rebuilding Technologies in the Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 9108 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration…
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Canceled: Martha Schwartz Partners- An Investigation of the Relationship of the Visual Environment and Well-Being
Martha Schwartz, Andrew Zientek
Landscape is an appropriate place for artistic ideas. The visual quality of our landscapes is important to our well-being. These two ideas are the foundation…
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Airport Landscape: Ecological, Infrastructural, and Urban Implications of the Aerial Age
Sonja Dümpelmann, Charles Waldheim
Airports have never been more central to the life in cities, yet they remain peripheral to many discussions in design and planning. In this seminar…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The course intent is to define the design thesis and to frame…
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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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Discourse and Methods
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Advanced Landscape as Digital Media: Fabricating Grounds
The course is aimed at fostering a conceptual as well as technical approach to the introduction of digital design and fabrication techniques within landscape design…
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Cartographies of Hydrology
Cartographies of Hydrology is an advanced representation course. The course begins from the premise that mapping is a \’tactical enterprise\’ and builds upon James Corner\’s…
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Shrinking Landscapes
03343 will meet for the first meeting in portico 123 on Friday, September 2nd. This advanced research seminar will explore landscape issues and potentials…
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Recalibrating Infrastructure
The first meeting of this course will take place on September 6th at 6 PM in room 510. Interested students should plan to attend. This…
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Third Coast Project
This seminar applies research to analyze and speculate on regional territories, specifically the Great Lakes Basin. With over 20% of the world\’s total surface fresh…
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Concepts of Nature
Architects design buildings, and the majority of buildings are in cities. It is not surprising, therefore, that most architects see in the city, in its…
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BIBLIOTHECA: The Library Past/Present/Future
\”Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down\” reads the lead verse of Proverbs 14. The verse may serve…
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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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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning will…
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Disaster Design and Development
The class begins on Monday Sept 12th. Please email instructor at [email protected] if you are interested in taking this class. This seminar…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
John Beardsley, Gareth Doherty
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The intent of the course is to define the parameters of the…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Landscape As Video
Moving images – photographic sequences and digital video – offer the potential for an expanded reading of the designed landscape that transcends the capacity of…
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Ford’s Fields: Readings in Urbanism, Ecology, and Industrial Economy
Across a range of disciplines, landscape has emerged over the past decade as model and medium for the contemporary city. This has been particularly true…
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Critical Ecologies
Over the past 30 years, the study and practice of ecology has broadened from a classical Newtonian paradigm and a Kuhnian normal science focused on…
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Ecological Urbanism
Over the past two years at the GSD, there has been a conference, exhibition, and book on ecological urbanism. The course asks a simple question:…
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Critical History: Curating Images, Objects, Media
Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Galison
This class will take place in the Science Center room 469.Critical History is an experimental seminar dedicated to bridging the worlds of media and things,…
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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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The History of Plants and Animals in Landscape Design: Antiquity to the Present
Does horticulture have a role in landscape architecture? Do wild animals have a place in garden design and urbanized areas? This seminar offers answers by…
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Urbanism, Suburbanism, and Climate
This seminar will explore an important episode in the history of the built landscape as a mechanism of climate management. In the period right after…
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Dynamic Landscape
Piet Oudolf is a prominent Dutch garden designer renowned for his unconventional methods of featuring plants throughout their life cycle. The inspiration for the New…
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The Military-Industrial Landscape
The military-industrialization of the North American economy occupies a vast physical footprint across the continent. Over the past 250 years, military activity has expanded from…
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PHYTO Remediation and Rebuilding Technologies in the Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 9108 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration with the…
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Preparation of Design Thesis Proposal for Master in Landscape Architecture
A weekly seminar required for MLA candidates electing to pursue a design thesis. The course intent is to define the design thesis and to frame…
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Communication for Designers
\”The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings. In the end the communicator will be confronted…
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Dioramic Modes in Landscape Architecture
This seminar/workshop explores the practical and theoretical potential of the diorama as a robust set of representational operations in the design and description of landscape…
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Advanced Landscape as Digital Media: Fabricating Grounds
The course is aimed at fostering a conceptual as well as technical approach to the introduction of digital design and fabrication techniques within landscape design…
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Landscape as Animation
This elective seminar studies the work of artist Joshua Mosley, in particular his methods of representing landscape through sequential photographic animation. In conjunction with four…