This multi-year research and education project is a collaboration among the Government of The Bahamas, the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), and the GSD. The goal is to facilitate the design and management of a more sustainable future for the Exuma archipelago, and The Bahamas more…
Robert Pietrusko
This advanced lecture course is a continuation of GSD6322 Mapping: Geographic Representation…
Alistair McIntosh
This seminar studies concepts of scale in landscape architecture and critically assesses…
John Dixon Hunt
The topic of this seminar is how do landscape architects ‘transform” the materials they invoke. …
Doug Reed
This course explores the expressive potential of plants as a central medium…
Rosetta S. Elkin
Confronting the reality of environmental degradation requires more than remote sensing, statistical…
by Jane Philbrick (MDes CC ’16) Phytoremediation, a remedial technique using living plant…
Platform 8: An Index of Design & Research is a winner in Design Observer/AIGA’s annual 50 Books | 50 Covers competition, honored in this year's Books category.
March 19, 2012–May 17, 2012 Eric Howeler, Curator On March 11, 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan sent 40 foot high waves crashing into the coastal city of Miyako, overwhelming the tsunami barriers and damaging the Fukushima Nuclear…
Erratics proposed a speculative genealogy of rock-based landscape architecture, featuring work associated with Harvard University, the Graduate School of Design, and the Department of Landscape Architecture. This array of sites, scales, and approaches was paired with a presentation of projects by Montreal-based Claude Cormier (MDes…