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: Students of Daniel D’Oca engage with Indigenous architecture in Minneapolis and British Columbia
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…
Dual-Use: Farshid Moussavi on rethinking residential architecture in the wake of Covid-19
The pandemic has had an immediate and tangible impact upon urban life—rewiring and, in some…
Hidden Territories: Uncovering the racist legacy of the American landscape
The term “landscape” historically referred to pictures of the world—vistas or views—and so it is…
With student advocates’ help, Cambridge set to build more affordable housing
Last month, the city council in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to…
Preston Scott Cohen’s Post-Shaker studio draws on the austere formal language of Shaker design in proposing a new art colony in Mount Lebanon, NY
Mount Lebanon, NY has faded. When its last seven inhabitants moved away in 1947 it…
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.
Cooking Sections’ Salmon: A Red Herring: Are our ideas about color and nature based on fundamental misconceptions?
How do you like your salmon? If you prefer the natural look, that’s fine—there’s a…
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…
Jeffrey Schnapp on the spatial logic of quarantine: “When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?”
Homeless people sleep in a temporary parking lot shelter at Cashman Center, with spaces marked…
Stephen F. Gray: “We have a name for the uneven distribution of exposure and risk along racial lines, and it’s not COVID-19. It’s structural racism.”
COVID-19 is a dangerous new reality, spreading indiscriminately and without regard for skin color or…
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,…
Resources for a just recovery from the GSD’s CoDesign Field Lab
The coronavirus outbreak has both revealed and exacerbated structural inequities in American cities. Challenges faced…