Courses
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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 in the histories of landscape architecture. In general terms, it takes the form of a…
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Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
This course deals with landscape architecture and architecture in contemporary China. Its purpose is twofold: to articulate new perspectives on the challenges…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Teresa Gali Izard, Matthew Cunningham, Doug Reed
This course is an introduction to understanding plants, from unmanaged plant communities to managed living structures. Through field visits, observation, lectures, short…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
Steven Handel, Christopher Matthews
Required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the third LA core-studio. Ecological Principles for Design (Steven Handel): The fundamentals of ecological science…
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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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Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology
Timothy Dekker, Nicholas Nelson
This course will provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning,…
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Practices of Landscape Architecture
This course examines landscape architecture practice through the consideration of contemporary frameworks for professional services, the legal and financial contexts in which they operate, and…
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Thing Power in the Arles Region: from Assemblages to Alchemy in the Camargue
Jane Bennett borrows Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of assemblages to argue that humans are not the sole actors in shaping…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Jesse M. Keenan, Rahul Mehrotra, Joan Busquets, Eve Blau, Michelle Chang, Ann Forsyth, Jeffrey Schnapp, Lily Song, Oana Stanescu, K. Michael Hays, Niall Kirkwood, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Jorge Silvetti, Abby Spinak, Preston Scott Cohen, Robin Winogrond, Jeffry Burchard, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Carole Voulgaris, Andrew Witt, Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez, Martin Bechthold, Tomás dePaor, John May, Malkit Shoshan, Paola Sturla, Megan Panzano, James Stockard, Toshiko Mori, Allen Sayegh, Richard Peiser, Emily Wettstein, Mark Lee, Jenny French, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Farshid Moussavi, Ewa Harabasz, Nathan King, Robert Pietrusko, Susan Snyder, Ali Malkawi, Jon Lott
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Preparation of MLA Design Thesis
A thesis is a thematic proposition offered for discussion and debate. A thesis is typically developed through a piece of original research specific to an…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
9502 must be taken for either 2 or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Proseminar in Landscape Architecture
The proseminar introduces MLA II students to a range of theories and methods in landscape architecture and their implications for practice and research. The focus…
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Proseminar in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology
This required seminar introduces candidates in the MDes Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology (ULE) concentration to the range of individual and group research on urbanism, landscape, and…
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Landscape Architecture II
Emily Wettstein, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Craig Douglas, Paola Sturla, Nadir Abdessemed, Eric de Broche des Combes, Teresa Gali Izard
Second semester core studio explores research and methods in the design of complex urban conditions: sites layered with multiple and uncoordinated interventions that present issues…
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Landscape Architecture IV
Jill Desimini, Rosalea Monacella, Danielle Choi, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Belinda Tato, Alex Wall, Amy Whitesides
Near-Future City Urban Assemblages Encoded for Change This is the fourth and final semester for the core Landscape Architecture sequence. It questions ways in which…
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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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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 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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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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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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Landscape Representation II
Building on the foundations of Landscape Representation I, this course investigates further the generative potential of representation as part of a productive feedback loop in…
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AI and Computer Simulation in Landscape Practice
The course aims to imagine and critically investigate the role of AI and computer simulation in landscape practice, considering the perceptual, intangible…
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Sections of Every Thing
This course aims to discuss the possibility of sections, made and used in the practice of landscape architecture, as the mean of…
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The Landscape We Eat
“A recipe is more than the food it is made of: the geography of our dinner spills off of the plate.” “The…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture and the city. As artists and…
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The Nature of Difference: Theories and Practices of Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Pablo Pérez-Ramos
This course explores how notions of cultural difference are embedded in the design of landscape. Social landscapes—as understood through race, class, nationality, indigeneity, disability, gender,…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities (with FAS)
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving…
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Experiments in Public Freedom
As places that accept and encourage multiple representations, cities need spaces to enable unregulated, temporary, and spontaneous events. Due to their role…
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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,…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path…
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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.
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Architecture and Landscape before and after Watergate
In one of the defining moments of the Senate Watergate Hearings, June 28, 1973, Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., put the “central…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Karen Janosky, Kirt Rieder
Module 1Topography—the land—is a basic medium and tool of landscape architecture. Grading is both precise and conceptual; the core mission of this module is…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies IV
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
The fourth and final course in the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies core sequence, GSD 6242 continues to develop an understanding of, and promote…
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Urban and Town Ecology
Wildlife, vegetation, soil, air, water, and aquatic ecosystems, together with their human uses, are related to the distinctive, especially spatial, attributes…
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Urban Restoration Ecology
We will explore principles of modern ecology that relate to restoring ecological structure and function to previously degraded lands. These are often…
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Beyond Adaptation and Resiliency: GeoEngineering and Why We Will Need It
“Combating climate change is the race of our lifetime.” Wagner & Weitzman, Climate Shock. On October 7, 2018, the New York…
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Structures in Landscape Architecture, Joint & Detail
Summary This class explores how to design and make physical landscapes that are both rationally constructed and expressively convincing. This…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Yusuke Obuchi, John May, Jerold S. Kayden, Joan Busquets, Niall Kirkwood, Steven Handel, Eric Howeler, Sawako Kaijima, Emily Wettstein, Stephen Gray, Danielle Choi, Teresa Gali Izard, John Peterson, Abby Spinak, Daniel D’Oca, Peter Rowe, Rosetta S. Elkin, Andres Sevtsuk, Rosalea Monacella, Jesse M. Keenan, Jennifer Molinsky, Ewa Harabasz, Tomás dePaor, Oana Stanescu, Mark Lee, K. Michael Hays, Rahul Mehrotra, Lily Song, Andrew Witt, Jennifer Bonner, Kayoko Ota, Antoine Picon, Jock Herron, Anita Berrizbeitia, Jon Lott, Remment Koolhaas, Martin Bechthold, Alice Friedman, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Panagiotis Michalatos, Diane Davis, Richard Peiser, Ann Forsyth
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
(Previously "Open Projects”) Prerequisites: Filing of signed "Declaration of Advisor" form with MDes office, and approval signature of the program director. A student who selects…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Following preparation in GSD 9341, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Niall Kirkwood, Ali Malkawi, Ann Forsyth
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…
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Discourse and Research Methods
Research conducted in the Doctor of Design Program (DDes) at the GSD spans a broad range of topics and areas of investigation that not only…
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Landscape Architecture I: First Semester Core Studio
Anita Berrizbeitia, Danielle Choi, Francesca Benedetto, Jungyoon Kim, Pablo Pérez-Ramos, Emily Wettstein, Alistair McIntosh
This studio course problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, climatic and vegetative influences, and varied ecological processes that help define…
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Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
Rosetta S. Elkin, Robert Pietrusko, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Rosalea Monacella, Paola Sturla
From Episode to Adaptation: Design for a Littoral Landscape This studio explores climate change, adaptation, and risk as fundamental to the design of the built…
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North Adams Central Park: MASS ART for MASS MoCA
North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA. Historically, North Adams was a mill town located in a stunning valley, surrounded by…
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Now Arriving: A Manhattan Transit Landscape
This studio, third in a series in New York City, contemplates the insertion of a landscape where none exists today, where more than 650,000…
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