Tar Creek Remade: Taking on 120 years of environmental injustice at an Oklahoma Superfund site
Envision a broad expanse of barren gray mounds riven with erosion channels. Pools of viridian,…
Loeb Fellowship announces incoming Class of 2022
Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Loeb Fellowship is pleased to announce its Class of…
2021 Virtual Commencement Exhibition
Message from the Dean Each year, we celebrate the achievements of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s graduating class by organizing an exhibition of their work. In the space of this year’s virtual showcase, we can linger within the vast breadth of interests across…
2021 Virtual Thesis Exhibition
Thesis projects at the Harvard Graduate School Design are at once summits and foundations. Incorporating focused research and dialogue, they spark new perspectives—serving as springboards for where design will go next. This year's remarkable projects offer insight into the diversity and depth of preoccupations that…
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
While now is a moment for celebration, it is also a time to reflect, given the impact the past fifteen months and more have had on all of our lives. We all know—we all have lived through—how difficult that time has been. To celebrate and honor you each is also to remind ourselves what work and values we must continue to carry forward.
Concluding an Unforgettable Year: A Message from Dean Whiting
2021 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Calvin Boyd’s “Pair of Dice, Para-Dice, Paradise: A Counter-Memorial to Victims of Police Brutality”
by Calvin Boyd (MArch I '21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
This Land Is Your Land: Students interrogate why “urban” and “Indigenous” are cast as opposing identities
Until the last decade, Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous architecture has been a…
The Black New Deal: Bryan C. Lee on challenging the power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression
When asked about the theoretical touchstones for his new studio, “The…
Shading Sunset: Charles Waldheim on reimagining the streets of Los Angeles for a warmer future
In 1965, Ed Ruscha stood on the bed of a moving pickup truck and photographed…
As an undergraduate, I didn't have any professors of color, and I only had one professor who was female. So I saw a severe lack of representation in my own education, and moving forward I want to play a role in changing that.
From "Students in Dialogue: A conversation with MArch II candidate Selwyn Bachus"
Excerpt from Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City by Seng Kuan
Below is an except from Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and…
2021 Peter Rice Prize: Erin Hunt and Yaxuan Liu’s “NuBlock”
by Erin Hunt (MDes Tech '21) and Yaxuan Liu (MArch I '21) — Recipient of…
Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”
Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…
First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design
The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology,…