GSD News Archive: April 2007
Pritzker Prize-winning Architect Fumihiko Maki Lectures on his Recent Work
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Boston Globe reports Adjaye “African Cities” exhibit “visually stunning,” and Desert Tourism exhibit “not to be missed.”
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Bart Lounsbury featured in honor of Landscape Architecture Month, “I have always been a rabid tree-hugger and used to wonder how I could become a whaling protestor piloting a little skiff in the North Atlantic. My college major, though, concerned environmental issues only insofar as I bought enough books to chop down an entire forest, but I managed to take a design school course on the ecology of cities during my senior year. I was fascinated by the professor's explanation of various ways (mainly through landscape architecture techniques) to mitigate the environmental impacts of urban and suburban development. This class piqued my interest and motivated me to pursue a joint degree in law and urban planning. In graduate school, I have focused my urban planning curriculum on learning about how cities can be designed and managed to minimize their ecological footprints. As a result, I have taken a number of courses in landscape architecture and have greatly enjoyed being an interloper in the field. If I had the time and money, I would love to stay in school for a landscape architecture degree.” –Bart Lounsbury [Planetizen, April 23, 2007] |
Master in Urban Planning student Lindsey Morse elected to the Student Representatives Council Executive Committee for the American Planning Association Lindsey Morse, a first-year student in the MUP program, was recently elected Region 1 Representative (the Northeast) of the American Planning Association (APA). Over the next year, Lindsey will work with the other five regional representatives and other leadership at the APA to explore and act on projects to benefit students. She will also be surveying APA representatives and students at other planning programs in Region I regarding ways to improve communication, resources, and activities provided by APA to students, including the annual National Conference. “I'm excited to have been elected to the position and for being able to bring suggestions from the GSD and the rest of the Northeastern region to the table at the APA,” said Lindsey. “I encourage students and faculty of the Department of Urban Planning and Design to bring me any ideas they may have.” |
GSD Alumni Council Honors Second Annual Unsung Heroes The GSD Alumni Council honored the following students the Unsung Heroes Book Prize at its semi-annual meeting on April 19th prior to Alumni Weekend: Aron Chang, MArch ’09; Jean-Paul Charboneau, MLA ’09; Kenny Cupers, GSAS; Ashley Heeren, MArch ’09; Stephen Ramos, DDes ’08; Brooke Rosenthal, MLA ’07; and Christopher White, MArch/MUP ’07. The Unsung Hero Book Prize recognizes the importance of leaders in the GSD community – those who plan the events that make student time here memorable, people who contribute time to the community, someone who orients new people to the School or introduces younger people to design, somebody who improves daily life at the GSD or advances the role of design in the public eye—anyone who makes a difference at the GSD—large or small. The awardees received a signed copy of The Struggle for Modernism by Anthony Alofsin (MArch ’81), a book of the winner’s choice, a book purchased for the Loeb Library in the awardee’s honor, and recognition at the Alumni Council reception on April 19. |
Firms of GSD Faculty, Alumnus Win 2007 Professional ASLA Awards General Design Category, Award of Excellence
M. Victor and Frances Leventritt Garden at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Boston, Massachusetts
photo: Andrea Jones
General Design Category, Honor Awards
Mesa Arts Center Mesa, Arizona Martha Schwartz Partners, the firm of Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture Martha Schwartz
photo: Martha Schwartz Partners
Harvard Graduate Student Housing at 29 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts photo: Steve Lee
Analysis and Planning Category, Award of Excellence
Hunters Point Waterfront Park Project San Francisco, California Hargreaves Associates, the firm of Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture George Hargreaves
image: Hargreaves Associates
For the full announcement from ASLA, please visit their website. |
Professor Margaret Crawford Receives Guggenheim Fellowship Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Rethinking Urban Space. Results of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s eighty-third annual United States and Canadian competition have were announced April 5th by Foundation president Edward Hirsch. The 2007 Fellowship winners include 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from almost 2,800 applicants for awards totaling $7,600,000. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, which includes six members who are themselves past Fellows of the Foundation – Joel Conarroe, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard A. Rifkind, Charles Ryskamp, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Edward Hirsch.
For the complete announcement, click here. |
The 2007 AIA/ALA Awards Firm of GSD Faculty for Design Excellence
Project: Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design
[AIArchitect, April 6, 2007] photo: © John Horner Photography |
New tourism threatens desert ecosystem worldwide
The Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) hosted a conference April 4-5 titled “Desert Tourism: Delineating the Fragile Edges of Development.” Panel discussions with leading architects, planners, and developers explored the relationship between tourism, social development, and the architecture and landscapes of arid regions around the world.
image: Tamnougalt, Morocco, photo courtesy of GSD |
World-traveling show draws urban design in 10 lines
Exhibitions by John Gendall [Architectural Record, April, 2007] |
River Tunes: Elbe Philharmonic Hall by Herzog & de Meuron
[ArchNewsNow, April 5, 2007] image: Elbe Philharmonic Hall by Night. Herzog and de Meuron |
New Concert Hall Designed by GSD Arthur Rotch Design Critics Herzog & de Meuron Arts, Briefly Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder In Hamburg, Germany, the foundation stone was laid yesterday for the new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall, a $322 million structure designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron [Arthur Rotch Design Critics in Architecture at Harvard GSD] and scheduled for completion in 2010, The Associated Press reported. The 360-foot-tall futuristic complex is atop an old coffee warehouse on a spit of land jutting into the Elbe at one end of Hamburg’s busy harbor. It will feature two concert halls, one with 2,150 seats; the other, 550, as well as a luxury hotel, bars and restaurants, apartments and a viewing platform. Copyright ©2007, New York Times, Co. [New York Times, April 3, 2007] |
Harvard planner likes 'very basic' Union Square by John King The man who wrote the book on urban plazas had an iced coffee last week in Union Square, surveyed the swirl of fashionable people there, and bestowed his blessing. "This really feels like part of the city," Jerold Kayden said on a clear day that brought bare shoulders and stylish sunglasses to the granite-paved heart of San Francisco's retail district. "You don't need to have your breath taken away to have a good public space." Besides being co-chair of the department of urban planning at Harvard University -- how's that for name-dropping? -- Kayden is author of "Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience." Specialized to be sure, this book from 2000 is also an addictive guide to more than 500 snippets of public space created as part of office and residential projects in New York.
[San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2007] |
| BSA Allies Honored
This year, the AIA honors Harvard Design Magazine and Public Architecture. Harvard Design Magazine, under the nonpareil leadership of assistant dean Bill Saunders, is the school’s trenchant and timely exploration of architecture. Published twice a year, Harvard Design Magazine is loaded with provocative essays by our era’s design thinkers. Public Architecture, the young California-based nonprofit organization that advocates the sophisticated and intentional allocation of design resources to serve the public interest, was founded by San Francisco architect John Peterson, AIA, currently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard….Both Harvard Design Magazine and Public Architecture will be honored next month in San Antonio during the national AIA Convention. [BSA Chapter Letter, April 2007] |
