Courses
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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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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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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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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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Landscape and/in the City: The Case of Switzerland
This seminar examines the relationship of landscape and city in Switzerland as a framework for the exhibition and symposium bConstructing the Swiss Landscapeb that will…
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Landscape Strategies for Low-Income Settlements
There are now approximately one billion people living in non-formal squatter communities world-wide; these settlements vary dramatically in size, character, and level of political and…
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Sacred Sites – Contested Sites
This seminar will explore the processes, cultural and theological, by which sites within the landscape become sacralized and the conflicts that arise as populations with…
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M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape Spatiality
Contemporary philosophical, design and cultural criticism recognize the phenomenon of \”montage\” as a visual discourse particularly analogous to the disjunctive and heterogeneous relational qualities of…
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Landscape Urbanization
In the second half of the twentieth century a global restructuring of the industrial economy and the construction of new infrastructures of mobility, communication, and…
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Green Roofs and Ecological Landscape Design for Watershed Protection
The elective course \”Green Roofs and Ecological Landscape Design for Watershed Protection\” will focus on green roofs as one alternative to create multi-functional and cost-effective…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Somerville, Massachusetts
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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Modernity and European Landscape Architecture
In this seminar, students will position the modern discipline of landscape architecture in relation to theories of architecture, urbanism, and hygiene during the first half…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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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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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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M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape Spatiality
M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape SpatialityContemporary philosophical, design and cultural criticism recognize the phenomenon of \”montage\” as a visual discourse particularly analogous to the disjunctive and…
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Landscape Urbanization
This lecture course explores the theories, tactics and workings of Landscape Urbanism. It positions Landscape Urbanism as an intellectual re-alignment of landscape\’s role in urbanization…
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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 Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Recent changes in the historiography of the European garden opened up a new field of study — the history of landscape architecture from a horticultural/cultural…
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Brownfields Practicum – Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites in Somerville, Massachusetts
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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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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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides a forum to discuss and explore contemporary questions and issues in landscape architectural design. In addition it prepares students to develop research…
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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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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
This applied lecture and workshop course focuses on the repair and reconstruction of derelict urban and suburban land within the realities of current conditions, regulations,…
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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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M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape Spatiality
M[ont]agic Operations in Landscape SpatialityContemporary philosophical, design and cultural criticism recognize the phenomenon of \”montage\” as a visual discourse particularly analogous to the disjunctive and…
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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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Advanced Topics in Landscape Ecology
An in-depth review of one or more topics of current interest concerning ecological spatial patterns, flows, and changes in the landscape. In spring 2004 the…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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European Modernism
This seminar studies the development of modernism in Europe between 1900 and 1945, with a particular emphasis on England, Sweden, and France. It examines the…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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MLA II Proseminar
This course provides an exploratory and collaborative forum that prepares the student to develop research interests and to formulate positions upon entering postprofessional study in…
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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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Land Geometry
This course enables students to pursue digital literacy particular to the discipline of landscape architecture through the exploration of topographic manipulation, calculation and analysis. The…
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Rebuilding Devastated Landscapes: Sustainable Landscape Development in the 21st Century
Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici
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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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: 1.) The visual…
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Critical Perspectives
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…