Welcome to the PhD program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning web site.
Announcements
August 24, 2009
Delia Wendel has published her first peer-reviewed publication. The article is entitled: ‘Imageability and Justice in Contemporary New Orleans’ and it has been published in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of Urban Design, Volume 14 Issue 3, 345.
April 23–24, 2009
Cambridge Talks III: Mediated Space: An annual symposium organized by the PhD Program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Cambridge Talks brings together scholars and artists to engage in an interdisciplinary exchange on critical themes in architectural discourse and urban studies.
April 16, 2009
GSD_PhD Talks: Carlos Sambricio, Professor of History of Architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will present “Juan de Villanueva and Classical Architecture: The Prado Museum in Madrid” Gund Hall, Room 109, 6 PM.
April 3–4, 2009
Jana Cephas will present her paper, “Body Politics: Public Space and the Political Fast” at the Research-in-Progress workshop at MIT.
April 1, 2009
Jennifer Mack will give a seminar, “Urbana medborgare i den transnationella staden” (Urban Citizens in the Transnational City), in the Urban Seminar series at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University.
March 12, 2009
GSD_PhD Talks: Arindam Dutta of MIT will present “Mammoths, Inc.: Architecture, Cartesianism, and the Debt” Gund Hall, Room 109, 6 PM.
February 26, 2009
GSD_PhD Talks: AbdouMaliq Simone of Goldsmiths University of London will present “Markets on the Train Tracks, Scavengers on the Shore: Notes on Urbanization from Jakarta to Dakar” Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 6 PM.
February 10, 2009
Max Hirsh is giving a guest lecture at the Yale School of Architecture on “Intelligentsia Design: The Residential Plattenbau and the Redevelopment of Downtown East Berlin”
January 29, 2009
Rebecca Ross will give a presentation at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London: “Doing Visual Culture: Currency and Graphic Design.”
December 14, 2008
Rebecca Ross will give a seminar, “All Above: Visual Culture and City Planning, 1867-1931,” at University College London in the Cultural and Historical Geography seminar series.
December 8–10, 2008
Jana Cephas will present her paper ‘Living Off the Land: Waste at Work in Edge Economies” at ‘The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and Human Rights,” an international workshop at the University of Cambridge.
November 20, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Christopher Klemek of George Washington University will present “New LEFT Urbanism: the politics of design in the age of ‘People Power.’” Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
October 20, 2008
Rebecca Ross will participate in a panel at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on October 20, called "Feminism is on the Agenda.”
October 7, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Devin Fore of Princeton University will present “The Camera Unleashed: Moholy-Nagy Between the New Vision and the Old Geocentrism.” Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
October 2, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Jinnai Hidenobu of Hōsei University (Tokyo) will present “Reading the Urban Landscape of Tokyo: Ecology and History,” co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 6 PM. Poster: e-mail, print.
August 27–30, 2008
Max Hirsh will present his paper “Intelligentsia Design: The Residential Plattenbau as a Magnet for Talent in Late GDR Redevelopment Plans for East Berlin” at the European Association of Urban History (EAUH) conference in Lyon.
July 6–11, 2008
Max Hirsh will present his paper ”‘Make Your Airport a Social Center’: Mobility, Sociability, and Design in Interwar American Airports” at the joint congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) in Chicago.
May 20–22, 2008
Jana Cephas will present her paper “Visions and Visionaries: Designing Detroit’s Belle Isle” at the “Designing the Parks” conference at the University of Virginia.
April 22–23, 2008
Jesse Shapins is co-organizing “Writing Cities,” an MIT-LSE-Harvard graduate student conference on urban studies. During the conference, Jesse will be presenting the paper "Talking about Media, the City and Human Subjectivity: A Retroactive Manifesto for a Critical Urban Media Arts" with Brian House. The conference also includes the audio and video installation “NF01: The Chirping Sidewalk,” organized by The New Factographers, featuring work by PhD students Jennifer Mack, Jesse Shapins, Lara Belkind and Mariana Mogilevich, DDes Antonio Petrov and MLA Ilana Cohen.
April 17, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Edward Dimendberg of the University of California at Irvine will present “Dogs, Wags, and Tails: Public Space, Autonomy, and Visual Culture,” Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
April 12, 2008
Cambridge Talks 2: A symposium on Urban Infrastructure will take place in Piper Auditorium from 2–5pm. Speakers include Hilary Ballon, M. Christine Boyer, Margaret Crawford, Judith Grant Long, Antoine Picon, and Hashim Sarkis. For more information, contact Anna Bergren or Max Hirsh.
March 15, 2008
Olga Touloumi is presenting her paper “Working towards the Supermedium: Loudspeakers, Laser Beams, and Architecture” at the annual NE/SAH Student Symposium.
Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 9:30 AM; flyer and program (pdf).
March 14–15, 2008
Robin Schuldenfrei is co-organizing the conference “Bauhaus Palimpsest: The Object of Discourse,” to be held at—and sponsored by—the Harvard University Art Museums (M. Victor Leventritt Symposia).
Arthur M. Sackler Memorial Lecture Hall; schedule (pdf).
March 6, 2008
GSD_PhD Talks: Uta Poiger of the University of Washington will present “Beauty and Business in 20th Century Germany.”
Gund Hall, room 109, 6 PM.
February 24, 2008
Yellow Arrow: Capitol of Punk, a documentary co-produced by Jesse Shapins about Washington D.C. from the perspective of its punk music history, will be included in MoMA's exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” through May 12th.