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GSD News Archive: August 2008

Marco Steinberg

 

Prof. Marco Steinberg appointed Strategic Design Director at the Finnish Innovation Fund >>

 

Recent faculty and administrative appointments >>

Felipe Correa

 

Assistant Professor Felipe Correa takes third place in Magok design competition >>

GSD student-assisted design of Rwanda Hospital keeps fresh air in mind.

Rwanda: Hospital’s Design Keeps Fresh Air in Mind
By Bina Venkataraman 

In the dark corridors and congested waiting rooms of rural hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa, tuberculosis can spread like a rumor in a small town. A patient who comes in with a broken leg might leave with a deadly disease.

[The New York Times; August 19, 2008]

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GSD Summer Fellows let their work speak for them.
By Mark Shanahan & Paysha Rhone

When Harvard Graduate School of Design students Jonathan Evans, Brett Albert, and Andrew Lantz sat down with staff at the Beverly School for the Deaf earlier this summer, they immediately knew their new project - designing a 55,000-square-foot building of classrooms for deaf and disabled students - would introduce them to a new world.

[Boston Globe; August 12, 2008]


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Profs. Herzog and de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium is a design to remember.

[New York Times; August 5, 2008]

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Men in the News: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

[Financial Times; August 1, 2008]

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Instanbul Mound Courtyard

 

GSD faculty, alumnus are among top finalist for a $1 billion design project in Istanbul >>

[Turkish Daily News; August 4, 2008]

Prof. Kayden cites Irvine, Calif. as a model planned community >>

[Money Magazine, August 2008]

 

Bill Clinton lays cornerstone of GSD student-assisted design of Butaro Hospital in Rwanda >>