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GSD News Archive: Spring/Summer 2006

2005–2006 Fellowships, Prizes, and Award recipients...

Cities 10 Lines Exhibition opens in Santander, Spain

'Extreme Transformation'
Danny Forster takes some time off to be a TV star.

Harvard Gazette article by Ken Gewertz, June 8, 2006.

"Bringing Solutions to Sub-Saharan Africa
Landscape architects advocate landscape infrastructure solutions in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya." Landscape Architecture News Digest. May 22, 2006. Article features Niall Kirkwood and the Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) which is affiliated with the GSD's Center for Technology and Environment.
"A view of varied work by a landscape designer," by Robert Campbell, Boston Globe, Sunday, May 14, 2006. Article features Michael Van Valkenburgh's April 3 - May 24 exhibit at the GSD.
GSD News Note... Judith Grant Long Appointed Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Website launched for Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT.
GSD News Note... GSD students among Harvard University team to win 2006 ULI competition

Out of Old Mines' Muck Rises New Reclamation Model for West

By Kirk Johnson Includes comments from Alan Berger. The New York Times, March 4, 2006. Free subscription may be required to read this article.

Extreme Engineering premiers on The Discovery Channel (First episode, entitled "Mega-Tunnel," features Danny Forster, an MArch I student at the GSD). More information...

The Active Edge by Andrew Blum

Metropolis Magazine article features Brooklyn Bridge Park, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. March 2006 issue.

A Pattern Language CATIA gets its due in an intricate installation at the Storefront for Art and Architecture by Laurie Manfra

Metropolis Magazine article features Joe MacDonald's "bone wall." March 2006 issue.

The Heart of Beirut by Stephen Zacks

Metropolis Magazine article includes comments by Hashim Sarkis. March 2006 issue.

Pomona: Harvard's Classroom Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Article by Monica Rodriguez
Nature and the man-made join harmoniously at Peter Rose's Art Studio and Residence Architectural Record, January 2006.