Please join us for the NEW GEOGRAPHIES #1 BOOK LAUNCH at Storefront for Art and Architecture Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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] |
Prof. Beardsley revitalizes program at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks >> John Beardsley, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, is completing his first year as Director of the Garden and Landscape Studies program at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Established in 1969, the program supports the study of gardens and the history of landscape architecture around the world from antiquity to the present. |
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Prof. Kirkwood presents on ecological urbanism at the University of Korea >> Prof. Kirkwood has been visiting Korea since 2003 to give papers at conferences and assess the state of the nation’s landscape architecture. Last week he was in Korea to present a summary of the findings of the GSD’s recent conference, “Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future.” [Korea.net, May 2009] |
Linda Law, AMDP ’02, named chair of GSD’s REAI international advisory board >>
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PhD students awarded fellowships to further their research >> |
Mobile information kiosk links Harvard arts events; inspires digital artists >>
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Student commentary: History of the Future Avant-Garde panel a “choose your own apocalypse game” |
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Forthcoming books by GSD facultyExpanded Practice: Howeler + Yoon Architecture/MY Studio, co-authored by Eric Howeler, Design Critic in Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, Sept. 2009). Rafael Moneo: 21 Works, by Rafael Moneo, Josep Lluis Sert Professor in Architecture (The Monacelli Press, Fall 2009). Ken Smith, Landscape Architect, by Ken Smith, MLA ’86, with an introduction by John Beardsley, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC (The Monacelli Press, Fall 2009). |
Students create F.L. Wright environments for Guggenheim exhibition >> Students in the Interactive Spaces course led by Allen Sayegh, Lecturer in Architecture, assisted in creating the digital and interactive installations for the exhibition, “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward,” that opened on May 15 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. |
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GSD Joint Center for Housing Studies announces 2009 summer fellowships >> Adam Wodka, MUP ’09, and Ivan Levi, MUP ’09, have won the Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship in Community Development which is co-sponsored with NeighborWorks America. |
HDM editor William Saunders speaks at architecture conference in SloveniaBill Saunders, editor of Harvard Design Magazine, presented at “The Next Step--Project Architecture” on May 8 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Prior to the conference Mladina magazine interviewed Bill on “Moments of Architectural Wonder.” |
Prof. Van Valkenburgh’s “ecological urbanism” to revitalize Toronto waterfront;
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“Planning the New City” conference focuses on harnessing the power of wasteShould you think of your home as a potential coal mine? Or as your own personal oil well? Maybe you should. American dwellings waste a lot of energy. If we could recover that lost energy, and put it to new uses, we'd be treating the house as a source of energy rather than a drain on it. It would be like a private mine or well. That, at least, is the fascinating theory put forth recently in Cambridge at a conference called “Planning the New City.” The two-day conference in May that was organized by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Neiman Foundation held in May was an attempt to look into the future of city planning and design. [Boston Globe; May 10, 2009] |
Prof. Meredith’s art installation pushes digital modeling “over the edge” >> Michael Meredith, Associate Professor of Architecture, collaborated with Slovenian artist Tobias Putrih to design “Overhang,” which is on view at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK through 31 August. |
Joint Center for Housing Studies Director Nicolas Retsinas speaks on the national housing crisisNicolas Retsinas, Director of the GSD’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, was interviewed May 6 on NPR’s Morning Edition about large grant made by the Ford Foundation to ease the mortgage crisis. |
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It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Charles Waldheim as Professor of Landscape Architecture without limit of time and also as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, starting July 2009. I very much look forward to working with Charles and the Landscape faculty in defining the future direction of the department, and in confronting the current challenges and opportunities facing those who teach and practice in the field of Landscape Architecture.—GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi |
GSD Green Design Team contributes to 2008-2009 |
Joseph Claghorn selected as Harvard Commencement student orator >> |
Prof. Van Valkenburgh and Design Critic Michael Blier receive ASLA 2009 Professional AwardsThe American Landscape Architecture Society (ASLA) awarded its top prizes for 2009 to 45 professionals, including two honors for Michael Van Valkenburgh, Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and an honor for Design Critic in Landscape Architecture Michael Blier. Prof. Van Valkenburgh received an Honor Award in the category of General Design, for Teardrop Park in New York City. His second was an Honor Award in the category of Analysis and Planning for Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York. The firm of Michael Van Valkenburgh is also the subject of a newly released book, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes (University of Pennsylvania School of Design), which won an ASLA Honor Award in the Communications category.
Design Critic Michael Blier’s firm, Landworks Studio, Inc., received an Honor Award in the General Design category for the Macallen Building. Situated between South Boston and an expansive field of infrastructure, and addressing the Boston skyline, the Macallen Building and landscape form an icon of sustainable development for the city. The jury considered nearly 600 entries—the largest number in ASLA history—from around the world and selected 49 projects for recognition in general design, residential design, analysis and planning, communications and research. The awards ceremony will take place at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Chicago on September 21. For more information: http://asla.org/2009awards/. |
The Function of Forms, by Prof. Farshid Moussavi, to be releasedActar and the GSD will publish The Function of Forms by Farshid Moussavi, Professor of Architecture, on June 15. |
Faculty NotesSusan Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning and Design, has been appointed chair of the committee on advanced research grants for the study of the environment and society of the European Research Council, an organization of the European Union. The committee, which meets in Brussels, awards large grants (2.6 million Euros) to senior researchers. Professor Fainstein also edited a symposium on “The New Mega-projects: Genesis and Impacts” that appeared in the most recent issue of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. The symposium includes an article by Professor Fainstein on “Mega-projects in New York, London, and Amsterdam.” Mack Scogin, FAIA, Kajima Professor in the Practice of Architecture, sparked discussion during his presentation at the Boston Society of Architects’ “Conversation on Architecture” roundtable series on April 9. He spoke on “Health Services, Paradise Extension, Chandeliers and the Anxiety of Difference.” The firm of Adjunct Professor of Architecture Peter Rose and team, which included Matthias Schuler, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Technology, has been shortlisted for the SITRA Low 2No competition. Peter Rose + Partners’ team secured one of the five spots from 75 entries. SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and the city of Helsinki are launching the international SITRA Low 2No competition for building a sustainable and innovative block in the Western Harbor of Helsinki.
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GSD featured School at HAA spring board meeting; dean, faculty and students participateThe spring meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors featured the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and included an address by Dean Mohsen Mostafavi on “Design Futures” and a presentation on “Planning Futures” by Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Co-Chair and Program Director of the Department of Urban Planning and Design. A GSD student panel on diversity and social change was moderated by Jonathan Levy, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, and Laura Snowdon, Dean of Students. Panelists included Dk Osseo-Assare, GSD ’09; Jon Evans, GSD ’10; Andrew Lantz, GSD ’10; and Marrikka Trotter, GSD ’09. |
Student Chinatown Library project featured at local mayoral candidate’s College Night >> Andrew Thomas, MArch ’09, presented the GSD student proposal for the Chinatown Storefront Library on April 30 at College Night, hosted by mayoral candidate Sam Yoon at the Hong Kong Lounge in Harvard Square. |
Press features GSD students helping Netherlands plan for future >> “Arriving this morning we made our way to our home for the next six nights, the floating hotel boat, The Merlijn,” wrote Martin Zogran, assistant professor of urban design in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), in his blog that highlighted details of the Harvard-Netherlands Project: Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation. “We hoisted our Harvard flag and learned the lay of the land from our hosts on board.” [Harvard Gazette, April 30, 2009] |
Harvard Design Magazine editor Bill Saunders on the evolution and purpose of urban design >> William S. Saunders, editor of Harvard Design Magazine, and GSD professor Alex Krieger, collaborated on the new book Urban Design, which asks prominent architects, landscape architects, and planners to take stock of the field of urban design—how it’s evolved, where it’s fallen short, and what its purpose should be. [Metropolis; April 27, 2009] |
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Rem Koolhaas’s OMA launches shape-shifting Prada Transformer >> The Prada Transformer, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), the firm of Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas, will showcase an innovative series of cross-cultural exhibitions, screenings and live events over the next five months, bringing a unique mix of visual arts to Seoul, Korea. The pavilion, which opened April 25, combines the four sides of a tetrahedron: hexagon, cross, rectangle, and circle. The steel-framed structure is entirely covered with a smooth, elastic membrane that can be flipped using cranes to completely reconfigure the visitor’s experience with each new program. Whenever one shape becomes the ground plan, the other three shapes become the walls and the ceiling.
Image: The Prada Transformer, designed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office of Modern Architecture. Photo courtesy of Prada press office. [Interior Design; April 27, 2009] |
Richard M. Sommer named Dean, Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of TorontoRichard Sommer, who has been a member of the GSD’s faculty since 1998, and has directed the School’s Urban Design Programs, will succeed George Baird as the University of Toronto’s dean. Sommer's design practice, research, and scholarship have developed along two interrelated lines. The first pertains to re-conceiving architecture and urban design's disciplinary basis to better address the competing forces of liberalization in property markets and the increasing expectations for democratic access in city-making processes. The second line of research frames the monument as the historical exemplar of architecture, tracing its transformation through its encounter with modern forms of democracy and the American landscape. His writings and projects have appeared in publications such as Perspecta: The Yale Architecture Journal, the Journal of Architectural Education, Any, Metropolis and Arcade and in a number of books, including Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design, Regenerating Older Suburbs and Urban Design. Support for Sommer's research has included awards and grants from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Tozier Fund, The GSD’s Wheelwright Fellowship, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He has also held a number of other distinguished academic appointments. These include serving for the past four years a Visiting American Scholar and the O'Hare Chair in Design and Development at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, where he has been working with academics, government agencies, and designers in private industry to develop innovative design models with which to reform Northern Ireland's cities and towns. |
GSD’s Second Critical Digital Conference explores role of designer |
Incoming Loeb Fellow chooses GSD over Seattle City HallFormer Seattle City Councilman Peter Steinbrueck won’t run for mayor but instead will spend a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He will be a Loeb fellow at Harvard and research U.S. urban policy and environmental challenged. “Through this fellowship, my challenge will be to study the politics, principles and best practices of sustainability, and then to examine how to advance these strategies in U.S. cities for global impact,” Steinbrueck said in a news release. |
Coordinated by students Luis Miguel Lus Arana and Aude-Line Duliere, the exhbit Vegetal City: Dreaming the Green Utopia was conceived as “…a progression in time and space, through Luc Schuiten’s eye, focusing on Nature’s presence as a model for a new way of building.” |
Loeb Fellows inspire school children to create “carbon footprint” >>
“The Kids at McCormack School Know about Their CARBON FOOTPRINT. Do YOU?” That’s the neighborhood billboard that students from The McCormack School in Dorchester created following their tour of the Ecological Urbanism Exhibition at the GSD on April 9. Peter Christensen, candidate for a Master in Design Studies, guided the tour. |
Student collaboration aims to improve Chinese village lifeProfessors Margaret Crawford and Marco Cenzatti of the Department of Urban Planning and Design are conducting a research seminar looking at “Villages in Development” in Panyu, a suburban district of Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta in southern China. This spring, the seminar, made up of students from all GSD programs, focused on two villages, Longmei and Xiani. Students used enthnographic techniques to learn about the villages' economy, society, politics, and culture. Collaborating with planning and landscape architecture students from the South China University of Technology (SCUT), they spent a week in the villages, talking to village leaders, residents, and migrant workers. Based on their research, they will propose interventions to improve the quality of village life and give villagers more control over their economic destinies. Both groups of students will present their work in Cambridge in late May to an audience of Harvard and SCUT faculty, China experts, and the village leaders. The seminar is sponsored by the Asia Center and the Harvard China Fund.
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GSD student receives REAI grant to research pedestrian experience of redeveloped Times SquareLior Galili, a MArch II candidate, has received a grant from the Real Estate Academic Initiative to research the speed of pedestrian traffic in Times Square in New York City and its effect on urban planning. Her project will analyze the pedestrians’ condition in Times Square through the isolation and study of the experience of speed. The current pedestrian experience is characterized by a tension between the speed of motion and the speed of perception. The project would attempt to show how this tension emerged out of the conflict between the redevelopment of Times Square and the persistence of the ‘original’ Times Square within the collective memory. |
Timothy Hyde speaks on contemporary architectural criticismTimothy Hyde, Assistant Professor of Architecture, presented at “A Matter of Opinion,” a conference held on April 11 at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. He and other speakers discussed issues of contemporary architectural criticism, debating the implications of techniques of description, discernment, and discrimination that are employed in historical, theoretical, and critical writing on architecture today. For more information, see the conference website. |
Ecological Urbanism Conference Promotes Holistic Approach to Creating Alternative and Sustainable Cities >> More than 50 speakers and nearly 500 students, academics, and practitioners attended the sold-out Ecological Urbanism Conference held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design April 3-5. Participants and attendees included experts in urban design and planning, public health, social epidemiology, landscape architecture, architecture, public policy, engineering, art and allied professions, who explored the complexity of myriad issues and systems related to creating alternative and sustainable cities of the future.
Related articles: Boston Globe, April 12, 2009; The Harvard Crimson, April 6, 2009; Harvard Gazette, April 6, 2009; World Landscape Magazine, April 5, 2009. |
Scent expert Sissel Tolaas presents on urban smells as communication >> Internationally renowned expert on scent, Berlin-based Sissel Tolaas presented on the importance of smells as a means of communication and navigation on April 2. As the Winner of the GSD’s Rouse Visiting Artist Award, Tolaas spoke about her project in Mexico City where she archived hundreds of scents from different neighborhoods which she shared with the audience—from the smell of cigarettes, to the scent of a vegetable market to the fragrance of grass. |
GSD studio a centerpiece of Harvard-Netherlands ProjectSpearheaded by Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design and co-chair of the Urban Planning and Design Department, GSD students and faculty members have begun research under the auspices of The Harvard-Netherlands Project on Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation, subtitled “Water Is Our Enemy, Water Is Our Friend.” The two-and-a-half-year project will examine how land planning and development strategies may best take into account the water-based impacts of climate change. |
MArch student Jungmin Nam wins first prize in BSA competitionMArch candidate Jungmin Nam was awarded First Prize for Design Excellence in the 2009 “In the Pursuit of Housing” competition. His project, “Toward the Emerald Necklace, Housing as a Visual Mediation,” and the other winning submissions were the focus of a special forum at the Residential Design and Construction convention and tradeshow in Boston, April 1-2, 2009. The jury comments will be available at RDC and thereafter on the BSA awards website. |
Harvard Design Magazine Editor William Saunders to address next steps in architectureWilliam Saunders, editor of Harvard Design Magazine, will speak at “The Next Step: Project Architecture” conference on May 7 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He and other panelists will discuss whether today, in the time of globalized capitalism, it’s still possible to practice architecture as a project; that is, as a practice of architectural transformation of reality. Other speakers include Prof. Kenneth Frampton, Columbia University; Prof. Dr. Luis Fernádez-Galiano, School of Architecture, Madrid University, and editor of AV/Arquitectura Viva, Madrid; and Prof. Dr. Rado Riha, Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art in Ljubljana. The conference is organized by The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, in co-operation with Zavod ARK – the Institute for Architecture and Culture, and the Faculty of Architecture University of Ljubljana. Attendance to the conference is free of charge; advance applications available at http://www.aml.si. Registration conditional on availability. Completed application forms should be sent to: infobio(at)aml.si; or by fax, to: 00386 1 540 03 44. For more information: Bustler: Architectural conference: THE NEXT STEP: PROJECT ARCHITECTURE |
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Professor Mori participates in Guggenheim’s “Now What Architecture”
