Toshiko Mori’s design for Ordos Villa 64, will be on display at Cannon Design’s exhibition ORDOS NOW. The exhibition features designs from the Ordos Project and will be on view Nov 12- Dec 12 at Cannon Design’s gallery at Bridge 8 in Shanghai. |
The Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates—the firm of Rodolfo Machado, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design and Jorge Silvetti, Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture—has received an Honor Award in the Institutional / Commercial project category from the Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Image: courtesy of Machado and Silvetti Associates |
Stoss Landscape Urbanism—firm of Chris Reed, Design Critic in Landscape Architecture—Installs Stock-Pile in Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA
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On November 5, 2009, Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at the GSD, lectured at the Urban Age conference in Istanbul on “Many Mediterraneans: Istanbul and the Ideal of a Mediterranean City.” Sarkis has been a member of the Urban Age, a research project run by the London School of Economics Cities Programme and funded by the Alfred Herrhausen Society, since it was founded in 2004. His paper “It’s Istanbul (Not Globalization),” on Istanbul’s relationship with the Arab world, has been published in Istanbul City of Intersections. On November 23, Sarkis will also deliver “A Question of Geography,” a public lecture about his design work at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
Reshaping our housing dreamsNOW THAT American fashionistas have embraced shabbiness, discovering a joy in ratcheting back expenditures—segueing from Saks to the Salvation Army—the question looms: What happens after the economy rebounds? Will “shabby’’ be passé, and will we return to our profligate ways? Or will we, much like our Depression-era forefathers who saved string and paper bags into their dotage, embrace shabbiness long after the Dow has spiraled up? For housing the question is acute, since, once upon a pre-Crash time, the housing sector (new homes, remodeling, furnishings, rent . . .) exceeded 20 percent of GDP. Full article >> [Boston Globe Op-Ed by Nicolas Retsinas, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, November 3, 2009]
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Renowned Landscape Architect, Lawrence Halprin, BLA '44, Dies Aged 93San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2009 >>
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Donovan Addresses Housing CrisisU.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentShaun L. S. Donovan, MArch '95, discussed the need to put housing development initiatives in the context of broader public concerns such as education and energy efficiency in a speech at the Graduate School of Design last night. Donovan, who served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development beginning in 2004, was appointed by President Barack Obama to lead HUD through a severe housing crisis that has contributed to the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. [The Harvard Crimson, October 27, 2009] |
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Opening celebrations for the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates—the firm of Rodolfo Machado, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design and Jorge Silvetti, Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture— took place on October 13, 2009. |
GSD students’ research on “Grided cities” in the exhibition "Cerdà and the Barcelona of the future, Reality Versus Design” was opened on October 20th in Barcelona. It is directed by Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design, Joan Busquets, and based on a seminar from 2008–2009. The exhibition is to celebrate “Cerdà and the 100 years anniversary of the approval of this extraordinary Urban Project for Barcelona.” It also displays the gallery of 30 grided cities around the World. The exhibition will be open until the end of February 2010. |
Around the Schools: Graduate School of DesignAt the Graduate School of Design (GSD), there’s plenty of learning still going on inside classrooms. But, as in many other areas, the Web is also proving to be a gateway to novel ways of sharing ideas and building teamwork. One such example is the student journal Trays, an online GSD forum where students are encouraged to post projects and display their work, air their problems, and exchange comments. [Harvard Gazette, October 15, 2009] |
Prof. Alex Krieger's firm, Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, were the Architects for the new Yawkey Distribution Center of the Greater Boston Food Bank, a 117,000 sf headquarters and food distribution warehouse facility that increased the capacity of the Boston-based non-profit hunger relief organization by a factor of four. Tom Sieniewicz (MArch ‘85) was Principal in Charge and Jennifer Lee (MArch ‘00) was Project Designer. The new Distribution Center is up and running and will enable The Food Bank to distribute up to 50 million pounds of food and grocery products over the course of the next 15 years. Robert Campbell writes in the Boston Globe, “The new Greater Boston Food Bank building…overlooks I-93 from an edge of Roxbury. This is about the last place you’d expect to see an architectural gem. But that’s what this building is.” Related: "The Building as Billboard" by Bob Campbell, Oct. 4, 2009, Boston Globe >> Image: Christian Phillips Photography
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Felipe Correa, Assistant Professor of Urban Design, was published in MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) issue # 11 on “Clean Urbanism.” The article profiles his most recent work in the Phoenix–Tucson Mega-region and the Sonoran Desert. |
Urban A&O, firm of Joe MacDonald, Associate Professor of Architecture, wins China's 2009 Most Successful Design Award for the Johnson & Johnson Olympic Games Pavilion, Olympic Green, Beijing, China. Related:
Image: Lower Lounge from Above. Photo: courtesy of Urban A&O. |
Prof. Alex Krieger's firm, Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, received the Special Award–Master Planning category for the Bund Waterfront project in the Cityscape Awards for Architecture in the Emerging Markets. The awards, based in Dubai, received a record 300 entries this year and were judged according to quality, innovation and environmental response by a panel of five experts. Rohan Marwaha, Managing Director, Cityscape said: “(T)his year’s Awards had a truly international flavour and recognised the best architectural and planning practices globally.” The Bund Waterfront was designed in association with Klopfer Martin Design Group and Beijing Urbanscape. |
| Andrea Leers, Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of Urban Design, recently served as moderator for "Guided by the Past: A Symposium on Historic Preservation in Kyoto & Boston," a Special Event of the 50th Anniversary of the Boston-Kyoto Sister-City Relationship, sponsored by the City of Kyoto, the City of Boston, and The Japan Society of Boston. She is is participating in a discussion of the delivery and design process from the point of view of the designer during "Harvard Explores Integrated Project Delivery" a special program sponsored by the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard Allston Development Group. Ms. Leers is also speaking at Harvard Intercollegiate Business Convention "Be Bold: Business Redefined," a program sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business. Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ Dudley Square Police Station has begun Construction Administration. Other projects in construction include the New Trial Court Complex, in Taunton, Massachusetts; the University of Connecticut Social Sciences and Classroom Buildings, and the Penobscot Regional Courthouse in Bangor, Maine. |
Joan E. Goody, FAIA, MArch '60, 1935–2009Members of the GSD community are saddened to learn of the death of Joan E. Goody MArch '60. Joan taught architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a number of years, culminating as the Noyes Visiting Critic; most recently she served as chair of the school’s Visiting Committee. Joan was Principal of Goody, Clancy, and Associates, recognized nationally for its design in a variety of areas including housing, civic buildings, academic buildings, planning, and preservation. Joan entered the field at a time when female architects were a rarity, and her success served as a source of inspiration for many younger women. “We will miss her inspiring leadership in the architecture community, and her incredible support for and involvement in the GSD,” said Dean Mohsen Mostafavi. “Joan was a good friend to the school.” As Chair of the Boston Civic Design Commission for eleven years, she reviewed all major projects for their impact on the city’s public realm. Her work has been recognized by awards from the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, and the Rudy Bruner Foundation, and in 2005 she received the Boston Society of Architects Award of Honor. Joan served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, as faculty for several Mayors Institutes for City Design, as peer reviewer for the GSA’s Design Excellence Program, and as chair of the Urban Design and Landscape jury for the Presidential Design Awards. Related:GSD Prof. Andrea Leers recalls a generous mentor, civic leader, and public-spirited architect |
Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology, installs weather station on Gund Hall roof as part of the GSD-Squared initiative's Model Gund Hall projectGSD-Squared is a research initiative within the recently formed Sustainable Design concentration area at the GSD. |
GSD Lecturer Bing Wang in joint venture with Shanghai Film Art Academy to produce the first TV series of Chinese classical literature workGSD lecturer Bing Wang, as the principle of HyperBina Inc. based in Cambridge, MA, and the founder of YongYou Investment Co. based in Shanghai, is in joint venture with Shanghai Film Art Academy to co-produce the first TV series of a masterpiece of the 16th century Chinese classical literature work—“The Peony Pavilion”—the famous play by the playwright Tang Xianzu of the Ming Dynasty. “The Peony Pavilion” is distinguished by its refined and subtle lyrics hailed as one of the cultural heights in Chinese literature, and its traditional performance format Kunqu Opera was proclaimed by UNESCO in 2001 as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity." This is the second nationwide major TV series to be co-produced by Wang’s company in joint venture with Shanghai Film Art Academy, and to be distributed exclusively by China Central Television (CCTV). Chinese news report >> |
Prof. T. Kelly Wilson, Adjunct Associate Professor in Architecture, has one-person show of drawings and paintings at Gurari Collections on Thayer Street in the South End, Oct. 2–25, 2009. This work spans three years of research on the development in painting the cross section between figural and abstract identities in the invention of spatial ideas. |
GSD graduates Mason White and Lola Sheppard (both MArch II, 2001), have been selected as winners of the Pamphlet Architecture 30: Investigations in Infrastructure competition, for their team entry entitled "Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism," submitted by InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office. The winning entry will be published as number 30 in the critically acclaimed Pamphlet Architecture series of publications. InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office is a nonprofit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. |
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by DDes candidate El Hadi Jazairy Topos 66, 2009 |
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies, has been invited to speak at the Opening of the Academic Year Lecture for the Departments of Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering, and Conservation at the Catholic University of Leuven, Sept. 21, 2009. |
Kostas Terzidis, Associate Professor of Architecture, is an invited speaker at the 21C Transmedia Innovation Symposium (CTIS 2009), sponsored by Korea Federation of Information Technology Societies, Sept. 23–25, 2009. |
Jay Wickersham, M.Arch. '83, J.D. '94, is acting as lawyer for the Friends of the Historic Ames Shovel Works, in their efforts to save the 19th century factory buildings in North Easton, MA, adjacent to three H.H. Richardson masterpieces. The Shovel Works has been named one of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the country by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. |
Actar and the Harvard Graduate School of Design are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of The Function of Form, edited by Professor Farshid Moussavi with Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato, Ryan Ludwig, and Ahmadreza Schricker, following her seminars at the GSD. |
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GSD Students Help Local Community Re-create its Libraryby Colleen Walsh In 1956, a giant green monster swallowed a little library in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood. Today, a group of Harvard students is helping to bring that library back to life.
Since the spring, the team of graduate students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) has been working on the Chinatown Storefront Library Project, a temporary library installation for one of the area’s vacant, commercial, street-level properties. The project will transform the empty storefront into a local library for three months, briefly re-creating what was razed to make way for the city’s elevated highway and its massive, green girders. [Harvard Gazette, Sept. 3–16] Related:Boston Globe article, Sept. 21, 2009 >> image: GSD student Julian-Bushmann Copp works in a woodworking area in Gund Hall. He is one of many GSD students helping to re-create a library in Boston's Chinatown. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office. |
Zhu Xiao Di of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has collection of essays published in China, Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009)Over 60 essays reflect his cumulative knowledge of Chinese literature, history, and philosophy. The book was ranked by the largest internet bookstore in China, www.dangdang.com, as the top 7th bestselling new book in literature for 2 consecutive days during the week of 08/09/09. |
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Op-ed by Nicolas P. Retsinas (Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design) IN THIS AGE of retro-chic, people who have tumbled down the economic ladder are savoring life at the lower rungs. Executives who used to dine at five-star restaurants are relishing meat loaf. Homeowners who used to pay gardeners now enjoy weeding. We seem to be morphing into a resolutely can-do nation, happily embracing the verities of the good old days, before a soaring Dow brought prosperity to much of the nation. In housing, the retro-chic - or renter-chic - voices offer solace. They explain that not only is it OK to rent, it is better for everybody, including the body politick. For a century Americans lusted to own homes; government, with a slew of subsidies, abetted that lust. Those would-be homeowners wanted a stake in the American dream; they wanted security; they wanted to sink roots in a neighborhood. [Boston Globe, August 16, 2009] |
Professor Michael Meredith's firm MOS to have large-scale installation of their work with Tobias Putrih at MIT List Museum, October 23, 2009 to January 3, 2010. |
Faculty AnnouncementsAndrea Leers Appointed Urban Design Program Director >> Thomas Schroepfer Promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture >> Toni L. Griffin Appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning >> Danielle Etzler Appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture >> |
BiomimicryArchitecture That Imitates Life >> by John Gendall [Harvard Magazine, Sept.–Oct. 2009 issue] ...Increasingly, architects look to nature as something not simply to incorporate into architecture, but as an inspired model for building design. “As a practicing architect, one of the reasons I went to the Graduate School of Design was to investigate landscape ecology,” explains Thomas Knittel, MDesS ’06. “Buildings are so tightly conceived—mechanical systems, structural systems, and high expectations for comfort. But with nature, there is variability built into the system, because it is in a constant state of flux.” Achieving equilibrium with the environment is “where we hope to go with architecture, designing buildings with gradients and responsiveness.”... |
Architecture for Everyone—the wannabe architects return RMJM sent six budding architects to study at Harvard this summer: The AJ catches up with them and discusses what they learned across the pond... By Merlin Fulcher [The Architects' Journal, August 20, 2009] |
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Students recognized for teaching excellenceJock Herron, DDes Candidate, and Brian Goldstein, PhD candidate, were awarded Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from The Bok Center, based on outstanding student evalutions. They both taught Harvard College undergraduate sections in GSD Professor Alex Krieger’s core curriculum course “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form” in spring 2009. |
Six British students set aside troubled pasts to study at Harvard’s Graduate School of DesignBy Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Callum Gilbert was an unemployed bricklayer and high school dropout when in 2006 he was attacked outside a hip-hop concert in his native Liverpool, England. A sudden flurry of stabbings left the slender teenager with near-fatal wounds to the head, face, abdomen, and one arm. This summer, Gilbert – now 22 – is studying at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), one of six young British students grinding through a six-week crash course in architecture. . . For complete story, see Harvard Gazette Online: |
Building New MeaningArchitecture Reaches Across the DisciplinesHow do media technologies shape and filter our perceptions of architecture and the process of creating it? How do modes of seeing govern our interpretations of the space around us, and our inhabitance of that space, and even its own essence? What are the boundaries between buildings and their representations? by David A. Kelly and Bari Walsh |
Lukas Petrash's MCD House: Trash becomes a family's treasure >> by David SokolLukas Petrash graduated from the GSD's Master in Design Studies program in June 2009. [Architectural Record, July 2009] |
Please join us for the NEW GEOGRAPHIES #1 BOOK LAUNCH at Storefront for Art and Architecture Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Architect's Newspaper launch review, 7.23.09 >>
Copies of the journal will be available for sale at the event and thereafter through Harvard University Press.
More information on NEW GEOGRAPHIES #1: After Zero >> |
Paths of New and Current Loeb Fellows Intersect in Brazil >> |
Associate Professor of Architecture Marco Steinberg published in American Journal of NeuroradiologyThe article by Marco Steinberg, “Comparing and Predicting the Costs and Outcomes of Patients with Major and Minor Stroke Using the Boston Acute Stroke Imaging Scale Neuroimaging Classification System,” was written in collaboration with L.E. Cipriano of the Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass; Dr. G. Gonzalez of the Department of Radiology (G.S.G.) and Neuroradiology Division (R.G.G.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Dr. G.S. Gazelle of the Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Health Policy and Management (G.S.G.), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. |
Prof. Rem Koolhaas wins Shenzhen Crystal Island competition
The design builds on Shenzhen’s newly acquired status of “City of Design,” honored by UNESCO in 2008, and proposes for the city’s Crystal Island project the formation of Shenzhen Creative Center, a focal point for the city’s creative industries in front of Shenzhen’s iconic city hall.
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Alex Krieger Appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design >>
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2009 MDesS graduate Lukas Petrash residence to be published by Architectural Record >> |
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GSD Executive Education to offer updated BIM program in AugustArchitects, engineers and other AEC professionals as well as owners will gain an understanding of the concepts of BIM as they relate to architecture, design, and construction in the one-day course, “BIM and Process Change” to be held on August 6. Offered through the GSD’s Executive Education, the program will present examples of using BIM that demonstrate how computable building information, e.g. costs and quantities, can be captured and shared to drive informed decision making. A variety of topics related to how BIM systems can be incorporated into practice, their influence on practice, and how they can be shared between stakeholders—the owner, architect, engineer, fabricator, and constructor—will also be examined. For registration, additional information, and a catalog of summer programs: http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exec_ed/details.cgi?offering_id=101746. |
Anita Berrizbeitia Appointed Professor of Landscape Architecture >> |
Mohsen Mostafavi interviewed by Hiroto Kobayashi for A+U magazine >> (pdf file) [A+U, June 2009] |
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2010 Design Intelligence Report Ranks GSD as #1 Graduate Architecture School 
