GSD News Archive: 2005

»GSD Revitalizes Master in Design Studies Program
GSD News Note, November 8, 2005

»Niall G. Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture was the 2005 Gerald O'Hare Visiting Scholar at the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Kirkwood was awarded a 2005 Technical Studies Grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study the performance of plant-based remediation technologies in urban areas.

»Michelle Addington gave the opening address at the first international meeting of Intelligent Building Middle East that took place in Bahrain in December. She also gave the keynote lecure at Graz Architecture Magazine Design Science Symposium in Graz, Austria, in June 2005.

»Recent updates of three Harvard University projects Leers Weinzapfel Associates has designed include: the dedication of the Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments at the Science Center. The firm also designed the new exhibit and library space as part of the expansion of the building. The Library Services Building, located on Mount Auburn Street, is nearing completion. And construction began this past summer on the New College Theatre, formerly the Hasty Pudding Theatre. The firm was selected to begin a study for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a new major courthouse in Taunton.

»Gary Hilderbrand chaired the Annual Professional Awards Jury for the American Society of Landscape Architects. He was also a jury member for the BSA's Harleston Parker Prize this year. His firm, Reed Hilderbrand, exhibited their work in "2x2" along with Walter Hood of Hood Design, at the University of Texas, Austin.

»Retsinas named new board chair of Habitat for Humanity. Article in the Harvard Gazette, Dec 1, 2005

»GSD Partners with Tulane University in New Orleans Hurricane Recovery

»Remarks by President Summers at GSD Symposium October 20, 2005.

»Farshid Moussavi

Appointed Professor in Practice of Architecture See Announcement October 18, 2005

»Science and Art—our Hope was the topic of Professor Eduard Sekler’s address to the Austrian Commissions for Science and Art at their jubilee assembly on October 2, 2005. The assembly took place in the historic meeting hall of the Austrian Federal Chancellery in Vienna. At the MAK (Austrian Museum of Applied and Contemporary Art), November 13, 2005, he spoke at a round table of experts on Gustav Klimt's famous frieze in Josef Hoffmann's Stoclet House at Brussels.

»"Close vote on eminent domain surprises experts" Features Jerold Kayden. Article from The Kansas City Star 11/1/05
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»Martin Bechthold, Associate Professor of Architecture, gave an invited lecture on innovative use of wood at the Fehnsymposium in Hamar, Norway. He lectured on "Parametric Design and Manufacturing" at the Universidad Iberoamericana and on "Concrete Technologies" at the trade fair show Expo Cihac, both in Mexico City. At the SOM Building Science & Design Research Symposium in New York he lectured on "Digital Design and Manufacturing."

»House in Connecticut Renovated by Toshiko Mori
Article in Dexigner World Design Portal

»"The Space Scientist" GSD Prof Jerold S. Kayden '75 seeks to change social space, one chair at a time. Harvard Crimson article by Aria S.K. Laskin 10/12/05.

»"More of the Wright Stuff" Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article features Toshiko Mori's work on the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, NY. 10/09/05, Kurt Shaw.

»Emeritus Professor Jerzy Soltan 1913-2005 GSD News Note

Studio Works 11 book cover

»Studio Works 11 Faculty editors: Joseph MacDonald, Holly Getch Clarke, Paula Meijerink, Martin Zogran. The annual compilation of selected student work.

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»Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006, number 24

"The Origins and Evolution of 'Urban Design,' 1956-2006"

Please visit the Harvard Design Magazine for more information.

»NEXUS: FIELD STUDIES in Real Estate, Planning and Urban Design

By Richard Peiser and Bing Wang, editors

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»New Orleans: Strategies for a City in Soft Land

By Joan Busquets in Collaboration with Felipe Correa

Documents a one-year investigation of New Orleans and its animate forms of exchange within the Lower Mississippi River Basin.

»Residential Waterfront: Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam

Adriaan Geuze, West 8 urban design & landscape architecture

Edited by Rodolfo Machado

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»"Regeneration: Design as Dialogue, Building as Transformation"

Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2005/Winter 2006, number 23 is now available.

» Hannah Peters appointed Associate Dean for External Administration and Russell Sanna appointed Senior Advisor to the Dean

» Harvard's Hurricane Katrina relief effort. The Harvard and GSD community reaches out to help friends and families affected by Hurricane Katrina. A Letter from Dean Alan Altshuler

» Boston Globe 10/7/05 mentions Alan Berger as one of the "region's leading thinkers."
See the article Innovators cross disciplines, find answers
in the Business Section. (Free registration is required at Boston.com).

» ASLA announces 2005 Student Awards. Kathryn L. Kennen MLA '05 receives Award of Excellence for "Vivero Metropolitano: A Productive Nursery Landscape for Monterrey, Mexico." Her advisors for the project were Lee Cott and Mario Schjetnan.
Honors went to collaborating students Liat Margolis MLA '05, Alexander Robinson MLA '05, and Patrick Curran MLA II, for "Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlán, México."Advisors were Carl Steinitz and Victoria and Alexander Wiley. See ASLA press release, 9/06/05.

» Paula Meijerink appointed Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture

» Monica Ponce de Leon appointed Professor of Architecture

» Jerold Kayden and Niall Kirkwood received additional administrative appointments

» Joe MacDonald promoted to Associate Professor of Architecture

» Susan Fainstein appointed as Professor of Urban Planning

» Ingeborg Rocker appointed as Assistant Professor of Architecture

» Sarah Goldhagen presented "The Forbidden City of Phenomenology in the Work of Alvar Alto" at "Changing Boundaries: Architectural History in Transition," a September conference in Paris (jointly sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art). Sarah will also be keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Southwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians in October.

» Antoine Picon gave the general conclusion of the "Changing Boundaries: Architectural History in Transition" symposium. Fall 2005 semester he will be lecturing in the U.S. and Europe on his research work.

» Construction of The Oakwood Bible Church in Ames, Iowa, designed by Laura Miller and her partners David Heymann and Michael Underhill, was completed and dedicated in June.

» An essay by Laura Miller appears in Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture, published May 2005.

» Eduard Sekler published an essay: "Josef Hoffman's Furniture from the International Exhibition for Book Trade and Graphics (BUGRA), Leipzig, 1914." The essay was included in the "Hoffman zum Quadrat" exhibition catalogue at Galerie bei der Albertina in Vienna.

» Thomas Schroepfer, Assistant Professor or Architecture, was appointed Visiting Researcher at the National University of Singapore, School of Design and Environment, for the period July/August 2005 in the context of his research on global design practice in Asia. Schroepfer investigates several recently completed and ongoing projects, including Foster and Partners' Supreme Court and SOM's Changi Airport in Singapore and OMA's CCTV Building in Beijing. Schroepfer's work has been awarded a GSD Dean's Junior Faculty Research Grant for 2005/2006.

» Toshiko Mori awarded the American Institute of Architects (New York Chapter) Medal of Honor.

» GSD Class of 2005 graduate Liat Margolis among recipients for inaugural Award for Achievement in Instructional Technology. Harvard Gazette article by Alvin Powell 6/2/05.

» A Unique View of Beirut from 300 meters up. Daily Star (Lebanon), June 23, 2005, features project designed by Hashim Sarkis.

» After Theory Debate in architectural schools rages about the value of theory and its effect on innovation in design. Article in June issue of Architectural Record.

» The Next Dimension Joe MacDonald and Dan Schodek featured in Architect's Newspaper article. Issue 10, 6/8/2005.

» Alan Altshuler to receive honorary degree at the Conservatoire National Des Arts Et Metiers. Ceremony to be held in Paris, June 20, 2005. (www.cnam.fr)

» Harvard Gazette: GSD students win tsunami design award. 5/26/05 Ken Gewertz.

» Swedish by Design GSD students produce pavilion for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, May 2005.

» "Prof. in Middle of NYC Land Battle" Harvard Crimson article features Alex Krieger and media giant Cablevision's quest to obtain development rights on Manhattan's West Side and halt construction of a new stadium.

» Toshiko Mori named as a 2005 American Institute of Architects Fellow

» "29 Garden Street Harvard Graduate Housing" April 12, 2005 Architectural Record article on affordable university housing created by Jonathan Levi Architects. (download as Adobe pdf)

» "New Perspectives on Ancient City" Harvard Gazette article by Ken Gewertz on the City of Aleppo and the Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

» 2005 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design Awarded to The City of Aleppo Press Release

Eduard Sekler awarded the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art by the President of Austria on March 9, 2005. Sekler is the Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Art, Emeritus, and Professor of Architecture, Emeritus at the GSD. The Decoration is the highest Austrian award given to scientists, scholars, and artists "who acquired general recognition and an outstanding name through exceptionally great creative achievements...."

Alan Altshuler appointed as Dean of the GSD

Alan Altshuler acceptance remarks to the GSD community.

Media release

» Building on Sacred Ground New York Times article on May 8, 2005, written by Fred A. Bernstein, features Toshiko Mori. (Free access for registered members of NYTimes.com)

» Jonathan Levi appointed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to its National Register of Peer Professionals for a two-year term. Peers help the GSA select architects for Federal design commissions and critique designs to ensure the highest quality public buildings in communities across the U.S.

» Office for Metropolitan Architecture receives the 2005 Mies van der Rohe Award for the Netherlands Embassy, Berlin Press release

» Ines Zalduendo, Project Archivist in the Loeb Library, has been awarded the 2005 Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation Fellowship, given by the Society of Architectural Historians, for her paper on Jaqueline Tyrwhitt.

» GSD MArch I student team (Ellen Chen, Eric Ho, Nour Jallad, Rick Lam, Ying Zhou) wins "tsunami challenge" competition, sponsored by MIT and Sigus.

» Harvard students selected as one of four finalist groups for third annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.

» Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani of Office dA have received a Progressive Architecture Citation and a CNU award for the Intergenerational Learning Center in Chicago.

» Chan Krieger & Associates receives 2005 AIA Honor Award for Anacostia Waterfront Initiative Framework Plan; also wins 2004 AIA Detroit Honor Award for the Detroit West Riverfront Vision Plan.

» Antoine Picon and Daniel Schodek assume leadership of doctoral and Master in Design Studies programs

» Thomas Schroepfer appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture

» Constantinos Terzidis appointed Associate Professor of Architecture

» Patricia Roberts promoted to Executive Dean

» Herzog & de Meuron to complete Tate Modern (London). artdaily.com

» Rem Koolhaas nominated for 2005 Wired Rave Awards. raveawards.com

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