MUP students recently voted to elect Adrienne Mathews and Lydia Scott (MUP ’14) co-presidents of the Harvard Urban Planning Organization. The past year has been filled with HUPO-sponsored events that engage students and professionals, academics, community organizations and city governments in improving cities.
During a recent trip to Korea on behalf of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Dean Mohsen Mostafavi was interviewed by 1013 Main Street, an English-language radio show based in Seoul, Korea.
Edith Hsu-Chen (MUP ’97), is working to boldly enhance the area surrounding Grand Central Station in Manhattan.
Stoss Landscape Urbanism, the firm co-led by Chris Reed (adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture), has taken a slew of recent honors, including the Syracuse competition for Movement on Main and two 2013 Boston Society of Landscape Architecture Awards.
Florian Idenburg’s (adjunct associate professor of architecture) firm SO – IL has won the UC Davis competition for its new Museum of Art after a year of accolades culminating in the Architectural League of N.Y.'s “Emerging Voices” award.
Matthew Gin (PhD student) recently was awarded the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art.
Keojin Jin and Juhun Lee (both MDesS ‘14) are the winners of the 1st Radcliff Public Art Competition for their design Saturate the Moment, selected from submissions by graduate and undergraduate students from all over Harvard. The work will be installed this summer and will be on view from September 2013 to June 2014.
On 5/9 at 6:30 p.m., the Van Alen Institute in N.Y. will present a lecture by Peter Rowe (professor of architecture and urban design) and conversation with John Hong (adjunct associate professor of architecture and MArch ‘96) and Jinhee Park (design critic in architecture and MArch '02) as part of the exhibit Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon River Project in Seoul.
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