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Features

Gund Hall with view over backyard, under construction

Five Lessons from the Gund Hall Renovation

In late May 2024, following commencement at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD),…

Feb 10, 2025

Photo Essay

Houses with thatched roofs on a slope of a mountain

Life on Earth: Zhang Ke’s Studio Melds Contemporary Architecture with an Ancient Landscape

The terraced rice fields of Yuanyang, in Yunnan Province, China, have been maintained and…

Feb 5, 2025

Features

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Neeraj Bhatia’s Studio Envisions California’s High-Speed Rail as an Armature for Care

The studio walks the San Joaquin River viaduct during their October visit.

Feb 3, 2025

Features

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Shana M. griffin on Resisting Reproductive Violence in the Built Environment

For the last three years, Shana M. griffin has been collecting soil,…

Jan 29, 2025

Features

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Unifying Research and Practice: Sam Naylor

Belfast Co-housing & Ecovillage, Belfast, Maine. All housing photographed by Sam Naylor during his Druker…

Jan 14, 2025

Features

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What Musicals Teach Us About Cities

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021), still of Anita, Bernardo, and friends dancing on an…

Jan 22, 2025

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Announcing Spring 2025 Public Programs and Exhibitions

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces its spring 2025 public programs and exhibitions,…

Jan 22, 2025

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Field trip to Plum Island for SCI-6241 Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World.

Option Studios – Spring 2025

Features

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Winter Reading 2025: Design Books by GSD Faculty and Alumni

Also Known As, by Michelle Jaja Chang. In need of new reading for the…

Jan 13, 2025

exhibition

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Envisioning Cluny:
Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture, 1872–2025

exhibition dates: JAN 21 – APR 4, 2025

Christine Smith, Curator

Features

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Flood Control as a Social Movement: Coastal Communities Adapt to a Wetter Reality

Students in the project-based seminar “Rockaway’s Housing Superstorm: Between Rising Waters and Climate Gentrification,” led…

Dec 16, 2024

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An Advocate for Architecture: Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli

Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli speaking at The Met. Nearly twenty years after his graduation, Jhaelen…

Dec 16, 2024

Features

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Forests Are Cultural Constructs: Uncovering an Ancient Harvesting Technique in the Blue Hills

One hundred thirty years ago, environmentalist and landscape architect Charles Eliot walked the…

Dec 4, 2024

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Nexus Podcast: Silas Munro + Tobi Ashiru

Season 4, Episode 3: The work of Polymode and Poche Design both give reference…

Dec 9, 2024

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A New Way of Seeing: The Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis

In 1965, as students protested the escalating war in Vietnam, President Lyndon B.

Nov 13, 2024

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Humphry Repton’s Pop-up ‘Red Book’ at the Frances Loeb Library

Dec 19

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Bas Smets Teaches How to Hack Urban Landscapes for a Changing Climate

Dec 18

OP-ED

The Lessons of Grenfell

Dec 17

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Dorte Mandrup, “Conditions of Place & Form”

Feb 13

Colloquium

POSTPONED: Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University

Feb 13

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Film Screening: Sitting Still with Laurie Olin

Feb 20

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