Celebrating Phil Freelon: Steven Lewis reflects on a career that transcended the ordinary limits of architecture
The passing of Phil Freelon has caused many of us who knew him to pause…
Facing the nation’s largest-ever infrastructure investment, GSD students ask: Who stands to benefit from a less car-centric LA?
There’s a movement underway in Los Angeles to rediscover public spaces, to reconsider the city’s…
Talking Practice: Preston Scott Cohen
In this episode, Talking Practice host Grace La interviews Preston Scott Cohen, founder…
Radical geometry: With Haus Gables, Jennifer Bonner proposes a new urban typology
Photo credit: NAARO On the first day of the construction of Haus Gables–after 11 trucks…
Work in Progress: Melissa Green’s future Captiva Island
Melissa Green (MLA ’19) describes her final project for the option studio “…
A Message from Dean Sarah M. Whiting
Dear community of the GSD: I’m thrilled to be joining you today, July 1st, as…
Remembering Pei: Tracing the architect’s legacy to the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei died on May 16, 2019, at the age of 102. Over…
Materiality and Modernity: Design Studies graduates awarded prizes for outstanding theses in 2019
Master in Design Studies graduates from a range of program areas were awarded prizes for…
What we think we know about architecture: A conversation with Sharon Johnston
Unsettled ground is familiar territory to Sharon Johnston. Her firm with partner…
Kuehn Malvezzi on liberating institutional design from all that is “dark, serious, and deeply moral”
This spring, Berlin-based architects Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn, and Simona Malvezzi asked…
Loeb Fellowship announces its incoming Class of 2020
They are architects and artists, activists and curators, policy-makers and transit advocates at the highest…
Janette Sadik-Khan on creating bike- and pedestrian-friendly cities: “Don’t be shy about stealing solutions.”
In 2016, Janette Sadik-Khan published Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, drawing lessons from her…
A momentous year: Highlights from 2018-2019 at Harvard Graduate School of Design
A look back at a few of the projects and moments that marked the past…
Work in Progress: Xiaotang Tang’s egalitarian museum
Xiaotang Tang (MArch '20) describes her final project for the option studio “…
Teju Cole on the unpredictability and potential of the city: “Once you give up insisting on stereotypes, you can really start to see.”
The work of novelist, essayist, and photographer Teju Cole is a genre-defying…
Work in Progress: Soledad Patiño’s fishing villages
Soledad Patiño (MAUD '20) describes her final project for the option studio “…
Harvard Graduate School of Design redefines the post-Brexit landscape of the Irish Northwest
Ireland’s northwestern borderland is a place that has changed a lot over the last two…
Mixed metaphors and manifestos: Five prizes are awarded for exemplary student thesis work in 2019
Melody Stein (MLA '19) and Emily Hicks (MLA '19) are the recipients of the…
“You belong here”: Naisha Bradley’s vision for community-building at Harvard Graduate School of Design
When Naisha Bradley was appointed Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at the Graduate…
In Space, Movement, and the Technological Body, Bauhaus performance finds new context in contemporary technology
More so than any other art form, the theatre creates apocalypses, the…
Pioneering conceptual artist Agnes Denes addresses the students of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
For more than 50 years, artist Agnes Denes has dedicated herself to…
Pattern-making is a tool for meaningful change in Toni L. Griffin’s pursuit of justice in American cities
About four miles from downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, the neighborhood of Hazelwood suffers…
“We were never considered fully human, so why should we care about this crisis?” Rosi Braidotti on collective positivity in the face of human extinction
We do not have time for entrenched antagonisms or building communities that bask in apocalyptic…
What can the utopian communities of the 60s teach today’s designers about co-living?
Wind blows hard over the bluff as huge waves roll in from the horizon, crashing…
The Trans-Siberian Railway: A borderless landscape ripe for reimagination
It is hard to avoid superlatives when discussing Siberia: Covering over five million square miles,…
Assemblage, San Rocco and the shifting value of architecture discourse
“Books and Looks” is a series of discussions at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design about…