Kongjian Yu, DDes ’95, presented “The Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture” at the GSD >>

[September 30, 2008]

New Trajectories: Contemporary Architecture in Croatia and Slovenia >>

[Harvard Gazette; September 25, 2008]

Joanna Aizenberg explores lessons in design from biomineralization  in “Natural Glass Houses of the Deep” >>

Mimi Hoang, MArch ’98, and Eric Bunge, MArch ’96, present innovative built and unbuilt projects >>

Prof. Farshid Moussavi’s FOA wins design competition for $1.1 billion Birmingham New Street Gateway project >>

GSD Launches New Track >>

The Harvard Graduate School of Design may soon bring new meaning to the term "green room" with the unveiling of its newest concentration on sustainable design. The concentration will be offered within the school’s one-and-a-half-year Master in Design Studies (MDesS) program.

By Esther I. Yi, Crimson Staff Writer

[Harvard Crimson, Sept. 18, 2008]

Sao Paulo civic leaders applaud GSD student projects to upgrade favelas >>

Associate Professor Joe MacDonald’s firm receives NY AIA award

Urban A&O, the firm of Associate Professor of Architecture Joe MacDonald, MArch ’92, was the Highest Honor recipient of the AIA New York Chapter’s “New Practices New York 2008” competition.

New Practices New York 2008 is the second juried portfolio competition and exhibition in a new biennial tradition sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter. It serves as a platform to recognize and promote new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City that have undertaken unique and commendable strategies – both in the projects they undertake and the practices that they have established. Distinguishing this award from others given to new practices is the attention focused on how the winning firms are uniquely shaped to better facilitate the type of projects they undertake. The Center for Architecture—AIA New York Chapter is featuring an exhibition of the award-winning projects through January 3, 2009.

MArch I candidate Yaw “Dk” Osseo-Asare presents at London conference on rethinking sustainability >>

Edith Hsu-Chen, MUP ’97, named new city planning Manhattan office director >>

Prof. Hashim Sarkis fishermen’s residence recognized as a successful, custom-designed community >>

[Metropolis magazine, Sept. 17, 2008]

Lecturer Bing Wang awarded the 2008 Developing Leaders Award by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties >>

Profs. Herzog and de Meuron to design Miami Art Museum; “Fantastical form” in New York City’s TriBeCa at 56 Leonard St.

Few museum projects anywhere have as much potential for great success as the new Miami Art Museum; already an international arts destination, with a unique role as a crossroads of North and South America.

[Arcspace; September 15, 2008]

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Related: New York Sun, Sept. 15, 2008 >>

Prof. Toshiko Mori completes two projects >>

GSD launches MDesS sustainable design concentration; At local universities, graduate degrees go green >>

By Jonnelle Marte, Globe Correspondent

Prof. Kostas Terzidis essay on algorithmic complexity recently published

“Algorithmic Complexity: Out of Nowhere,” by Professor Kostas Terzidis is included in the newly released book, Complexity: Design Strategy World View, published by Birkhauser (Basil, Boston & Berlin). The book is the latest in the publisher’s Context  Architecture series, a collaboration of the Zurich University of the Arts and Ludger Hovestadt, chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design at the ETH in Zurich. Professor Terzidis’ essay focuses on the notions of complexity and randomness and their role in the process of design.   In addition to Kostas Terzidiz,, contributors include Clemens Bellut, Johann Feichter, Andrea Gleiniger, Klaus Mainzer, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Georg Vrachliotis.

Prof.  Farshid Moussavi’s firm FOA’s completes two major projects >>

GSD faculty and alumni receive Architects Awards for 2008 Best New Building Design

GSD faculty and alumni are among the 66 architects whom the The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of   Architecture and Design honored with the American Architectural Awards for the Best New Building Design in the United States for 2008. 

Winners include the United States Courthouse in Orlando, Florida, designed by Professor in Practice of Architecture Andrea Leers’ firm, Leers Weinzapfel Associates; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, designed by Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rodolfo Machado and Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture Jorge Silvetti; and Water + Life Museums Campus, designed by Michael Lehrer, MArch ’78, CEO of Michael Lehrer Architects with Gangi Design+ Build.

The Chase Center, designed by Prof. Rafael Moneo at RISD, opens to the public

The much-anticipated building, the premiere exhibition space for RISD students on campus, will become a major focal point on North Main Street. Bordered on three sides by historic buildings, the five-story glass and brick structure will significantly increase the exhibition and programming capabilities of the RISD Museum.

[ArchNewsNow; September 8, 2008]

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Talking with Rem Koolhaas, the architect behind the [Seattle] Central Library

Mark Rahner of the Seattle Times talks to architect Rem Koolhaas, who designed the Central Library. The Seattle Public Library celebrates the completion of its "Libraries for All" building program Saturday.

[Seattle Times; September 9,2008]

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Professor Toshiko Mori's award-winning projects on exhibition

Toshiko Mori, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in Practice of Architecture, announced that her "Addition to House on the Gulf of Mexico I," an addition to a Paul Rudolph house in Casey Key, Florida, was awarded a 2008 "Award of Excellence" by the AIA New York Chapter. The project will be included in an exhibition to be held during the AIA New York Chapter’s Annual Convention, September 25-27th. The Syracuse Center of Excellence of Environmental and Energy Systems, also designed by Professor Mori, will be on view at the 2008 Seoul Design Olympiad as part of the AIA New York Chapter 2008 Design Awards exhibit.