Talking Practice: Practice in an Uncertain World
In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La moderates a special roundtable, Practice in…
Womxn in Design celebrates International Womxn’s Day with a week of GRASSROOTS-themed events
The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Womxn in Design (WiD) is honoring International Womxn’s Day…
Excerpt: The Incidents: Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell
Designed by ELLA. Three time zones and three thousand miles…
Silvia Benedito’s new book Atmosphere Anatomies explores weather, climate, and atmosphere as mediums of design
Much of modern civilization has been shaped by a fundamental need for shelter, and much…
Lean, just-in-time production for critical infrastructure seems destined to fail catastrophically, and while excess capacity may not be ‘efficient,' maybe it’s not such a bad thing to have the ability to keep millions of people alive in extreme winter weather events.
Abby Spinak on the energy crisis in Texas, from "Power and Justice in the Lone Grid State"
The African American Design Nexus’ Harlem StoryMap traces the neighborhood’s Black-designed places
Black Harlem, storied and resilient, has been chronicled from many perspectives. Missing until now has…
Groundscrapers: Exploring the logic behind long, low buildings
A visionary architect of the modern metropolis surveyed the vast urban scene unfolding from his…
Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account
Disability ought to be an exciting subject for architects: it’s about lived experience, problem solving,…
GRASSROOTS: A Projection for International Womxn’s Week 2021
Screening nightly from 4:00 PM – 11:00 PM on Gund Hall‘s Cambridge Street and Quincy Street facades. Projected on the facade of Gund Hall, GRASSROOTS asks the viewer to consider their own passions, histories, relationships,…
Five design initiatives celebrating Black creativity, from host of The Nexus podcast
In February 2020, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Black History…
GSD students collaborate with Kabul University in Afghanistan to confront the most extreme conditions of urbanization
Design paradigms are best tested in extreme conditions, as Rahul Mehrotra…
Continuing to unearth and reflect on the degree to which owning, shipping, and selling millions of humans was a centrifugal force in the creation of our cities, industry, and socio-politics is crucial in shaping what we do as designers, and as citizens, today.
Sara Zewde on retracing Frederick Law Olmsted’s route through the Southern states
Womxn in Design on shifts in design pedagogy: “The conditions in which we learn become the conditions we practice and reproduce.”
It’s been almost three years since the #MeToo movement started launching public awareness around the…
Land for a City on a Hill: Alex Krieger’s iconic tour of Boston
Watch as Alex Krieger, professor and former chair of the Department…
Bodies in Motion: Jennifer Newsom on foregrounding the kinetic body in architectural representation
Can you depict a sweating body in an architectural drawing? Are lines capable of expressing…
This Land Is Your Land: Why are “urban” and “Indigenous” cast as opposing identities?
Until the last decade, Native American, First Nations, and other Indigenous architecture has been a…
With Mass Timber and the Scandinavian Effect, Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara speculate how wood might recapture the American architectural imagination
Moments of intense constraint have driven architecture toward seismic ruptures, which go on to determine…
Pier Paolo Tamburelli on the “hardscrabble, repressed, and perverted” American Gothic psyche
In Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, the author…
Making Next to Forest: Toshiko Mori’s studio demonstrates how design decisions relate to natural-resource use and protection
The argument that forests should remain untouched by human beings poses counterintuitive but considerable risks.
The Architecture of Waste: Is wasting resources a necessary part of the design process?
A linear economy conceives of waste as an end. It presumes that refuse cast off,…
A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally
Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…
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,…