Courses
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces students to the business side of the design industry. It highlights the ways in which a design firm is a business like…
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Landscape Representation I
This course introduces students to the history, techniques, and conventions of representation used in the field of landscape architecture. The primary objective is the cultivation…
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Landscape Representation III: Landform and Ecological Process
This course seeks to expand the fundamental relationships between dynamic landscape processes and the methods in which they are understood, conveyed, and graphically communicated. As…
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Intermediate Drawing
The purpose of this course is to draw. To be able to draw one must learn to see, or read, the world around us. Disegno…
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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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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding of the field, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood…
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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
The course focuses upon a series of short modern texts, as they relate to the practice of contemporary landscape architecture; these texts will be required…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first course in the core sequence of Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies and is divided into two half-semester modules. The first module emphasizes…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will give a critical overview over the most pressing issues and tendencies surrounding the term Sustainability focusing on the specific role of…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Richard T.T. Forman, Peter Del Tredici
The science of ecology is introduced through the lenses of local sites, urban areas, and broad landscapes and regions. Key motifs during the course include…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse 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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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
Summary: This lecture course will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments in which they grow. It will cover both…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008
John Beardsley, Anita Berrizbeitia
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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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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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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History of Gardens and Public Landscapes, 1600 to 1900
GSD 4317 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of modern gardens and public landscapes. Beginning in early modern Europe, the course moves from English…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
As the continuation of GSD 6106, this is the second in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module of GSD…
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Plants and Technology II
Peter Del Tredici, Gary R. Hilderbrand
GSD 6219 addresses interdependencies among technical, cultural, and professional aspects of built landscapes at an advanced level in landscape architecture. Technologies are investigated as critical…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of water and aquatic ecosystems that will: – inform their professional approaches to architecture, landscape…
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Intermediate Drawing
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Landscape Planning for the 21st Century: Paradigms, Practices & Projects
Responding to contemporary ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons across North…
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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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History of Landscape Architecture I
This course presents a history of landscape architecture between 1850 and 1950, with a particular emphasis on the Western world. By studying the projects and…
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Site Ecology and Environment
This course is required for all incoming MLA1 AP students and MLA1 students returning for their second year. The course will present the principles of…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology I
Laura Solano, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will establish basic environmental literacy for all the departments at the school. A series of lecturers will address key issues for planners…
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Plants and Technology I
This course focuses on understanding basic biological principles and horticultural practices that influence the growth of plants and ultimately determine the success or failure of…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the ecological structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of natural systems and land uses, such as woods, wetlands, fields, streams, roads,…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse of Brownfield Lands
\”A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a hazardous…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
Summary: This seminar course meets once per week for 3 hours and will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments…
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Leading the Design Firm
Andreas Georgoulias, Richard Jennings, Brian Kenet
This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the design industry and attempts to highlight both the ways in which a design firm…
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Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008
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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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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History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1700 to the present
GSD 4317 covers the formal/cultural history and theoretical underpinnings of modern gardens and public landscapes. Beginning in early modern Europe, the course moves from English…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology II
Paula Meijerink, Michael Van Valkenburgh
As the continuation of GSD 6106, this is the second in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module of GSD…
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Plants and Technology II
Peter Del Tredici, Gary R. Hilderbrand
GSD 6219 Plants and Technology II will address the interdependence between plants, technology and design in landscape architecture. The purpose of this course is to…
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Urban and Surburban Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes of suburban and urban…
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Water, Aquatic Ecology, and Land-Water Linkages
This course looks at water across the globe in relation to (1) aquatic ecology, (2) land-water interactions, emphasizing hydrology and water quality, and (3) human…
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Intermediate Drawing
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
Schedule:Module 1: 10 – 11:30 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and 11:30-1 on Wednesday. Module 2: 10 – 11:30 on Monday, and 11:30-1 on WednesdayCourse…
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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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History of Landscape Architecture I
This course surveys the history of landscape from antiquity to 1800 by focusing on particular gardens, cities, and landscapes, primarily in the Western world, which…
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Site Ecology and Environment
This course is required for all incoming MLA1 AP students (fall 2005 and beyond), and MLA1 students returning for their second year (fall 2006 and…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology I
Laura Solano, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the…
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Plants and Technology I
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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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the ecological structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of natural systems and land uses, such as woods, wetlands, fields, streams, roads,…
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Ecological Strategies for Disturbed Sites
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the reuse and reconstruction of derelict and minimally managed urban landscapes. Emphasis will be placed on strategies…
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Leading the Design Firm
This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the design industry and attempts to highlight both the ways in which a design firm…