Public Discourse
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When the High Tech Abounds, the Low Tech Shines: A Review of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Across from the main entrance to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale stands a courtyard lined with bamboo scaffolding. An ancient Chinese structure fashioned with lashed bamboo poles, such scaffolding dates back thousands of years and remains ubiquitous throughout Hong Kong, wherever construction is underway. This particular bamboo scaffolding, erected in a Venetian courtyard, serves a different […]
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Grafting the Aquarium
Harvard Graduate School of Design Studio Positions the 21st -Century Aquarium as Environmental Steward
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Malkit Shoshan on Design as an Agent of Change
Class Day at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is a celebratory time for graduating students and their families, a day to honor achievements and reflect on the potential of a design education to impact the world beyond Harvard. In past years, invited speakers from outside the GSD community have joined the proceedings to share […]
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The Art in Architecture
Spanning the length of Gund Hall’s sunny back patio stands a life-size black-and-white drawing of a stone wall, a cluster of students and critics squinting to assess its merits. This is the final review for Ewa Harabasz’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) course “Drawing for Designers 2, Human Presence: Appearance in Natural and Built Environments.” […]
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Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter Reality
As oceans expand and storms intensify, coastal regions face a rising threat: water. Whether due to deluging downpours or surging seas, flooding has increased in frequency for shore communities. Throughout the past two decades, landscape architects and urbanists associated with the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) have explored ways in which oceanfront regions can […]
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The Plural Forms of African Landscape Architecture
“Landscape is a way of beholding that is inclusive of nature and culture, of people and environment,” said Jala Makhzoumi. “It is anchored, it is situated, it is contextualized.” An Iraqi landscape architect based in Beirut, Makhzoumi offered these reflections to encourage expansive thinking about her discipline as part of a two-day conference hosted by […]
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Resourceful Urbanism: Dan Stubbergaard’s Adaptive Reuse of Cities
Even before the last flight had taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, in 2008, the future of the historic airport’s 355-hectare site was the subject of intense dispute. Competing plans to transform the area into new residential neighborhoods and commercial areas, integrating the vast airfield into the surrounding urban fabric, stalled amid protests against development. […]
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The ReefLine: An Unprecedented Underwater Sculpture Park Brings Art, Marine Habitats, and Public Education to Miami Beach
A 7-mile underwater sculpture park and hybrid reef will soon trace the shore of Miami Beach. Known as the ReefLine , this first-of-its-kind project fuses public art, science, and conservation to address threats posed by the climate crisis, in particular sea level rise and warming ocean temperatures. At the same time, the ReefLine offers an […]
EVENTS
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Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts
SHIFT: The GSD at the 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial
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Aga Khan Program Lecture
Meriem Chabani “South South Cosmogonies”
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Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture
Mabel O. Wilson “The Measure of Freedom
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John Portman Lecture
Joshua Ramus “10,887”
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Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
Urban Design as a Development Strategy The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture Campus by MASS
Podcasts
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In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Sheila O’Donnell , architect, educator and co-founder of O’Donnell + Tuomey . Sheila reflects on the creation of O’Donnell + Tuomey, the practice she formed with John Tuomey in 1988. She traces the evolution of her practice through the workings of Group 91 and shares her insights […]
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Serpentwithfeet has exhibited versatility through experimental R&B music, and the creation of safe spaces for Black queer communities to relate and flourish through critical reading, and self-reflection. This episode is dedicated to taking an expansive approach to design, one that is focused on and based on the multimedia, and multidisciplinary techniques approached by Black artists, […]
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In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Pier Vittorio Aureli, architect, educator, and co-founder of Dogma , an architecture and research-based practice in Brussels. Pier Vittorio reveals early beginnings of Dogma, which started as an academic comradery and became a professional cooperation. He expands on the reception and interpretation of his work and writing, including the […]
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In this episode of Design Now, we discuss designing libraries for a world in which books are often accessed remotely and knowledge sought via search engines rather than librarians. Francine Houben, John Ronan, and Joshua Ramus have all built acclaimed libraries—including the New York Public Library, the Independence Library and Apartments in Chicago, and the […]
