GSD student-assisted design of Rwanda Hospital keeps fresh air in mind. Rwanda: Hospital’s Design Keeps Fresh Air in Mind In the dark corridors and congested waiting rooms of rural hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa, tuberculosis can spread like a rumor in a small town. A patient who comes in with a broken leg might leave with a deadly disease. [The New York Times; August 19, 2008] |
GSD Summer Fellows let their work speak for them. |
Profs. Herzog and de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium is a design to remember. [New York Times; August 5, 2008] Men in the News: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron [Financial Times; August 1, 2008] |
GSD faculty, alumnus are among top finalist for a $1 billion design project in Istanbul >> [Turkish Daily News; August 4, 2008] |
Prof. Kayden cites Irvine, Calif. as a model planned community >> [Money Magazine, August 2008] |
Bill Clinton lays cornerstone of GSD student-assisted design of Butaro Hospital in Rwanda >> |
Prof. Toshiko Mori shares views on architecture, education, and inspiration >> [Metropolis magazine; July–August, 2008]
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| GSD class of 2008 graduates are among top ten finalists for SOM Prize.
Maria Arquero de Alarcon, MLAUD ’08, and Annie Barrett, MArch 1 ’08, were among the ten top finalists out of 101 submissions for the 2008 SOM Prize that was granted on July 24 in San Francisco. The SOM Prize is a $50,000 travel and research grant awarded annually by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation. The jurors were: Stanley Saitowitz, Stanley Saitowitz Architects; Jim Jennings, Jim Jennings Architecture; Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA; Anne Fougeron, Fougeron Architecture; and Craig Hartman, SOM (jury chair). |
 Prof. Michael Hays and GSD alumna presents at the Whitney Museum’s Buckminster Fuller Exhibition
Related: Metropolis magazine article, July 2008 >> |
| Aga Khan Award for Architecture Exhibition Tenth Cycle acclaimed by ArchitectureBoston
[ArchitectureBoston; July-August 2008] Read article >> (adobe pdf file) |
| From diagram to architecture: Tate Modern extension redesigned by Profs. Herzog and de Meuron
The redesigned extension to the Tate Modern contemporary art museum in London launched today, shows Jacques Herzog moving from what would effectively have been a built diagram of stacked boxes—his first attempt of two years ago—into something considerably more smoothly sculpted. It’s turning into architecture.
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GSD faculty receive a grant to research Pearl River cities Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory, and Marco Cenzatti, Lecturer in Urban Planning, have received a grant from the Harvard China Fund and Harvard’s Asia Center for a four year study of “Villages in Development.” |
| Profs. Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti’s graduate student housing honored as a 2008 notable project.
2008 Notable Projects: Dormitories >> [Architype Review; July 2008, Vol. 3 No. 3] |
| Prof. Jacques Herzog defends his “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium in Beijing
Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells Spiegel his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends his decision to build for a regime criticized for human rights violations. more >> [Der Spiegel.com; July 30, 2008]
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| Prof. Alex Krieger cites values of successful cities; to lead Plan Baton Rouge masterplan
Alex Krieger of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz in Cambridge, Mass., will lead the second phase of Plan Baton Rouge, assuming the contract is signed. Krieger, the former chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, believes there are about eight common values all successful downtowns embrace. When one reviews these factors in the context of downtown Baton Rouge, it’s obvious there’s a lot of work left to do. more >> [BusinessReport.com; July 30, 2008]
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| Prof. Rem Koolhaas to design new Prada Foundation headquarters
The Office of Metropolitan Architecture, which is led by the visionary Dutch architect, has been commissioned to oversee the transformation of an early 20th-century industrial complex at Largo Isarco, in Milan, into the Prada Foundation’s new headquarters. more >> [Art+Auction; July 25, 2008] |
| Prof. Farshid Moussavi’s office to design MOCA in Cleveland
Strong design of uptown project bodes well for Cleveland’s future; the City’s Museum of Contemporary Art plans to build a new home for itself at the tip of the Euclid-Mayfield Triangle, marking the western entry to the district. The design for the building, still under wraps, is by Farshid Moussavi, from the highly innovative London firm of Foreign Office Architects. more >> [Cleveland Plain Dealer; July 27, 2008]
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His Highness the Aga Khan visits the GSD >> June 4, 2008 |
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Office designed by Adjunct Professor Leland Cott a showcase for clients >> Leland Cott, FAIA, co-founding principal of Bruner/Cott & Associates in Cambridge and an adjunct professor of urban design at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design noted, “We very much see our own space as an extension of who we are.” His firm moved into a building it bought and renovated 15 years ago. [Boston Business Journal; June 23, 2008] |
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Profs. Herzog and de Meuron create an icon that reaches beyond the Olympics >> National Stadium lies beyond Beijing’s Fourth Ring Road, at the northern end of the imperial axis that cuts through Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. But it can be seen almost everywhere in the capital. Billboards, magazines, television ads, soda cans, clothes, hats, and ashtrays bear the likeness of Herzog & de Meuron’s woven-steel building, reflecting the propaganda, marketeering, and pure fascination that surround the city’s Olympic centerpiece. [Architectural Record, July 2008] Related: Guardian UK, July 6, 2008 Washington Post, June 22, 2008 |
GSD students postulate a radical new vision for Lee, MA >> [Berkshire Eagle; July 15, 2008] Related: Berkshire Homestyle magazine |
MArch II candidate Anthony Acciavatti receives Harvard grant to work in India >>
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Prof. Scott Cohen featured as new chair of Architecture Department >> (pdf file) [The Architect’s Newspaper; June, 11, 2008] |
Prof. Martha Schwartz unveils Icelandic installation at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland >> [Press Release, Martha Schwartz, Inc.] |
Housing project designed by Prof. Hashim Sarkis completed >> Designed by Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies, the new residence is intended for fishermen and their families near the city of Tyre. Local and international dignitaries attended the opening.
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Prof. Monica Ponce de Leon named dean at University of Michigan Monica Ponce de Leon, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Digital Lab at the GSD, which she joined in 1996, has been appointed the new Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, at the University of Michigan effective September 1, 2008. Monica Ponce de Leon is also a Principal in Office dA, an internationally known design practice that she launched with Nader Tehrani in Boston in 1991. The firm’s synthesis of research and design has led to a remarkable body of work that has been widely published and exhibited and has won numerous honors. Professor Ponce de Leon’s work addresses the critical importance of digital production to the future of the profession and the re-establishment of the architect’s role in the construction industry. Through her strong commitment to teaching and her successful practice she has proven her ability to link the profession and the academy. Professor Ponce de Leon received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. |
MDesS candidate Peter Davos awarded scholarship >>
[New England Real Estate Journal; June 27, 2008] |
Professor Michael Hays co-curates Buckminster Fuller exhibition at the Whitney Museum; Professor Antoine Picon included in Hays’ book on Fuller more >> |
GSD Students Offer Winter-City Vision for Burlington, VT |
Design schools are recalibrating to teach students the principles of commerce Highlights GSD’s RMJM Program for Research and Education in Integrated Design Practice [Metropolis; May 2008] |
Just a Minute with: Dutch architect Professor Rem Koolhaas more >> [Reuters; June 4, 2008] |
Professor Rem Koolhaas’ firm designs innovative Shenzhen Stock Exchange Plaza more >> [ID: The International Design Magazine; May 27, 2008] |
GSD student wins HRES art competition more >> |
Prof. Van Valkenburgh’s Toronto project wins Canadian urban design award for sustainable development |
Robyn Perkins, MLA candidate, runner up in Next Generation Design competition more >> |
More GSD students honored with awards, fellowships more >> |
Harvard Design Magazine press coverage, articles to be reprinted in StadtBauwelt more >> |
The First International Conference on Critical Digital fosters digital media, technology dialogue |
GSD Career Services names 2007/2008 Community Service Fellows more >> |
Marrikka Trotter MDesS ’08 presents public art installation more >> |
Prof. Monica Ponce de Leon’s firm Office dA honored for Helios House more >> Architype Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 May 2008 |
China’s Urban Revolution by Prof. Campanella newly published more >> |
Professor Farshid Moussavi’s firm, FOA, designs John Lewis department store (U.K.): Great Drapes Building (U.K.) May 20008 |
Preston Scott Cohen Appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture more >> Related articles: |
GSD students win summer fellowship, awards more >> |
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GSD students launch trays, a new on-line journal more >> |
Eric Olsen, MArch ’01, wins 2008 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Prize more >> |
Harvard Design Magazine spring/summer issue now available more >> |
