Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Kate Orff, “Toward an Urban Ecology”
Kate Orff, MLA ’97, RLA, is the founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design…
Topic Ecology
“New Geographies 08: Island” Launch
This volume marks the end of a three year long trilogy that included NG06: Grounding…
Colloquium: “Ecology for Land & City: Exploring the Confluences of Landscape, Road, and Urban Ecology”
In a bare twenty-five years, landscape ecology, road ecology, and urban ecology have sprung from…
Kiley Fellow Lecture: Fionn Byrne: “Designing Natures: For a Pluralism of Ecology, Ethics and Aesthetics”
Fionn Byrne, lecturer in landscape architecture at Harvard GSD, focuses his research…
Towards Sentience: Attuning the Los Angeles River’s Fluvial Morphology
by Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes '16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis incorporates the…
Wildland-Urban Interfaces: Attitudes and Altitudes
by Oliver Curtis (MDes '17) This project explores the wildland-urban interface, “wilderburbs,” the growing borderland…
A Sustainable Future for Exuma: A Traveling Toolbox
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…
Deconstruction/Construction: Cheonggyecheon River Project
Recipient of the 10th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. The evolution of the Cheonggyecheon River in just twenty-nine months from an outmoded utilitarian highway into a multipurpose performative infrastructural piece of unprecedented size merits recognition as a seminal project in contemporary urban…
Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World
Steven Handel, Christopher Matthews
Fall term, four units, required for both MLA 1 and MLA AP students taking the…