History, Theory, Culture II: Material Histories of Landscape Architecture

Harvard GSD

Following in the footsteps of Aristotle’s Peripatetic School (from the ancient Greek, meaning “to walk about”), this course strolls conceptually and bodily through landscape history, tracing the deep roots of design history. Our investigation will begin with questioning the archive and how we define artifacts that speak to land-based histories. This meandering approach allows us to read land as a palimpsestic text, and thus to juxtapose the traditional “canon” with historically excluded…