Required Courses
For students entering Fall 2019
First Year
32 units Electives or Distributional Requirements*
Second Year
Coursework Track:
16 units Electives or Distributional Requirements*
Or
Thesis Track:
16 units Electives or Distributional Requirements*
8 units GSD 9304 Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
*Students must take 12 units of the following Distributional Requirements:
4 units GSD 4121 Buildings, Texts, Contexts I
4 units GSD 4141 Histories of Landscape Architecture I
4 units GSD 4122 Building, Texts, Contexts II
4 units GSD 4142 Histories of Landscape Architecture II
4 units GSD 4223 Buildings, Texts, Contexts III
Recommended Research Methodology Course
Courses that teach skills of potential relevance to theses projects
HIS-4395 Environmentalisms
Other Recommended Courses
HIS-4115 History and Theory of Urban Interventions
HIS-4350 Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovation, Influence (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4362 Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
HIS-4385 Mountains and the Rise of Landscape
HIS-4386 Domesticity, Privacy, Transparency, Performance (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4387 Topology and Imagination: Between Chinese Landscapes and Architecture
HIS-4388 Architecture in Early Modern England: Themes and Methods (not offered in 2019/20)
HIS-4394 Once Century of Modernization in Latin America
HIS-4395 Environmentalisms
HIS-4428 Visionary Architecture
HIS-4551 Materiality, Visual Culture, and Media
HIS-4453 Manfredo Tafuri and the Historiography and Criticism of Architecture 1960-1990
(Required courses for students who entered in Fall 2017.)
(Required courses for students who entered in Fall 2018.)
Students contemplating cross-registering for courses at another Harvard school must abide by the dates and policies of the school in which the course is offered. Priority for enrollment may be given to the other school's students first before cross-registrations are accepted — enrollment is not guaranteed. See https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/resources/cross-registration-policies-procedures/