Courses
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
Holly Clarke, Kirt Rieder, Martha Schwartz
The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed…
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Gardens and Parks
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
The studio will be cotaught by Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles EliotProfessor of Landscape Architecture, and Matthew Urbanski, who is a Lecturerin Landscape Architecture. The…
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Alternative Futures for Pueckler – Muskau Land
In the early nineteenth century, Prince Hermann von Pueckler-Muskau(1785-1871) laid out a huge landscape park on his estates at Muskau, nowdivided by the German-Polish border.
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Lost and Found: New York City’s Small Urban Spaces
The studio will study some of the many small urban spaces that can be found scattered throughout Manhattan, Boston, and other inner city areas throughout…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history,conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes andtheir elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques andtechnical conventions for plan, section, elevation,…
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Intermediate Drawing
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…
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Theories and Methods of Landscape Planning
This course has three aspects. The first is a series of lectures by Carl Steinitz in which different elements of theories and methods applicable to…
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Earthwords: Writing About Landscape
Using the essay as form and the landscape as subject, this course will be an exercise in close reading and careful composition. We will try…
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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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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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History of Landscape Architecture: Antiquity to 1800
The course surveys the history of gardens and landscape design primarily in the Western world, from antiquity to Humphry Repton and the beginning of the…
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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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Site Ecology and Plant Communities
The course focuses on the principles of ecosystem, community, and population ecology as applied to the analysis of vegetation, wildlife, soil, water, and microclimate of…
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Fundamentals of Landscape Technology
The first in the core sequence of Landscape Technology courses, this class introduces the concept of landforms and grading in design. The course will focus…
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Plants, Vegetation and Microclimate
Introduction to Plants as a Design Material…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of ecological systems, such as forests, wetlands, fields, corridors, and villages. Focus is on…
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Site Planning
This course provides an introduction to the theories, principles, and methods of site planning and land design practices. Through case studies based upon landscape archetypes,…
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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…